Discover My Trauma-Informed Care Approach

 

My Approach

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At The Emotional Intelligence Nurse, my approach combines emotional intelligence, trauma-informed counselling, and relational therapy to help you understand your emotions, recognize patterns, and develop a stronger relationship with yourself and others.​ Rather than simply managing symptoms, we look at the patterns underneath them—how your emotions, nervous system, past experiences, beliefs, and relationships influence the way you move through the world.

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Emotional Awareness & Regulation
Learn to understand and regulate difficult emotions, manage emotional overwhelm, and respond to what you’re feeling with greater awareness and choice.

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Relationships, Attachment & Codependency
Understand unhealthy relationship patterns, attachment wounds, people-pleasing, codependency, boundaries, and difficulty trusting or expressing your needs.

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Trauma & Childhood Experiences
Explore how past experiences and relational trauma may still influence your emotions, nervous system, sense of safety, and relationships today.

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Emotional Patterns & Self-Awareness
Recognize the patterns that keep you stuck—including overthinking, emotional over-functioning, shutting down, avoiding conflict, or constantly monitoring other people’s emotions.

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Self-Worth & Authenticity
Reconnect with who you are beneath the roles, expectations, and beliefs you’ve developed to feel accepted, safe, or worthy.

 

Emotional Expression & Communication
Develop greater confidence expressing your feelings, needs, boundaries, and truth while staying connected to yourself and others.

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Grief & Loss
Receive compassionate support as you navigate grief, loss, major life transitions, and the emotional impact of experiences that have changed you.

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​Moving From Emotional Survival to Emotional Vitality

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Together, we work toward greater emotional awareness, self-trust, healthier relationships, and the ability to live with more authenticity, connection, and emotional integrity.  Common modalities I would use include CBT, DBT, Somatic therapy, IFS, Interpersonal, Person Centered, compassionate inquiry, psychoeducation and emotionally focussed.