Services

Feeling stuck? Are events from your past haunting you in ways that don't allow you to move forward and be your best? Is your relationship not as smooth as you'd like it to be? Are you experiencing a major change in your life, and you'd like some support in learning how to manage?

Lori is a qualified, registered therapist who is experienced in providing a wide range of services that helps people resolve their difficulties.

Now Offering Premarital and Enrichment Packages!

Using the internationally-recognized PREPARE/ENRICH tool, Lori is offering marriage preparation and relationship enrichment packages.

If you are engaged or preparing for marriage you might want to consider our premarital counselling counselling package. Using the couples’ scored relationship inventory and other dynamic and engaging modules, couples will learn personal skills and tools that may be used to create a strong relationship foundation. Plan your wedding… prepare for your marriage.
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Our Check & Enrich package is intended for couples who are seriously dating, married or common-law, and wanting to maintain and enrich their time together. Check & Enrich is a comprehensive package which includes a scored relationship inventory used to provide professional guidance and feedback by your facilitator over multiple sessions.
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Areas of Expertise

Lori is a trained and registered couple and family therapist, and therefore has the expertise to work within the dynamics of relationships. She has a special interest in working with sexual minorities and couples who wish to work on their sexual difficulties.

Individual Counselling

Individual counselling is the process of exploring your thoughts, feelings and behaviours with a professional therapist. The intent is to make a change of some kind in your life. Lori helps people identify these desired changes and works with them to achieve their potential. Some areas of change involve issues around the following:

• grief and loss
• anger
• depression
• anxiety
• criminal victimization (see Compensation for Victims of Crime to see if you qualify for government funding)
• suicidal thoughts
• job-related stress
• self esteem
• recovering from childhood trauma
• adjusting to a major life change
• sexual identity

Relationship Counselling

Relationships are hard! You might be struggling with your intimate partner, parents, siblings, roommate or a friend. Not only is open communication important, but how you communicate is essential in the potential success in negotiating through a conflict and getting what you want. In addition to all the above-listed issues that can potentially affect relationships, Lori is skilled in helping people through the following relational issues:

• couple therapy
• infidelity
• sexuality and sexual difficulties
• parent-teen conflict
• adult children and parent relationships
• effective communication
• premarital preparation
• conflicting parenting styles

Relationship Check Ups

Many people go to the doctor, dentist and optometrist for regular check ups, even when they feel fine, knowing that an expert might be able to notice things that they can't. Lori recommends that you give your relationship the same care and attention that you give your physical health. A relationship check up involves highlighting your strengths as a couple and identifying potential concerns. It can alert you to trouble so that you can take care of before it becomes a big problem. It can also give you an opportunity to talk about relationship goals to see if you and your partner are on the same page, a conversation that we rarely even think of having!

Information Presentations and Workshops

Lori has produced and presented information segments and conducted workshops at the request of various community groups and businesses. Some of these include:

• effective communication (basic and advanced)
• tips to boost self esteem
• negotiating fun sex
• how having children can affect your relationship, and what to do about it

If you don't see the topic you want listed here, be sure to contact her to see if she could produce something tailor-made for your organization!

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