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Arches Counselling & Consulting
Our mission is to provide therapy that is respectful, validating, and collaborative.
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Areas of Focus
Arches Counselling has professional therapists who focus on many different aspects of mental health, relationship challenges, school and children’s issues and many more.
We provide an environment to explore underlying emotions and thought patterns, providing coping strategies and tools for managing symptoms.
Relationship Challenges
Therapy provides couples with a supportive space to address communication breakdowns and underlying issues, fostering empathy and understanding between partners.
Arches Counselling offers tailored support and strategies to help neurodivergent individuals better understand and manage their unique cognitive processes and challenges.
Gender Identity
Therapists at Arches Counselling offer guidance, validation, and resources tailored to each individual’s unique journey, empowering them to embrace their authentic selves and live more fulfilling lives.
Arches Counselling helps people with PTSD confront and process traumatic experiences, facilitating healing and symptom management.
Grief
We utilize evidence-based techniques to help clients navigate the stages of grief, fostering coping strategies and facilitating the gradual adjustment to life after loss.
Through empathetic guidance and practical interventions, our therapist assist individuals in coping with overwhelming emotions, identifying solutions, and accessing necessary resources.
Parenting Challenges
Our therapists can help parents understand their children’s behaviour, implement positive discipline, and foster healthy relationships.
Frequently Asked Questions
Counselling can provide support, problem-solving skills, and enhanced coping strategies for issues such as depression, anxiety, relationship troubles, unresolved childhood issues, grief, stress management, body image issues and creative blocks. Many people also find that counsellors can be a tremendous asset in managing personal growth, interpersonal relationships, family concerns, marriage issues, and the hassles of daily life.
What can I expect in a counselling session?
A typical counselling session is 50 minutes long where you talk about your concerns and feelings with a trained professional. The counsellor will listen to you, help you make sense of your situation, offer perspectives, and suggest potential solutions. They may also give you activities or homework to help you apply what you’ve talked about in the sessions to your daily life.
The number of counselling sessions depends on your unique needs and goals. Some issues can be addressed through short-term counselling over a few weeks. Other issues might require longer-term commitment before improvement is seen. You and your counsellor will discuss the appropriate course of treatment for your specific situation.
What can I expect in a counselling session?
A typical counselling session is 50 minutes long where you talk about your concerns and feelings with a trained professional. The counsellor will listen to you, help you make sense of your situation, offer perspectives, and suggest potential solutions. They may also give you activities or homework to help you apply what you’ve talked about in the sessions to your daily life.
Will I be cured after therapy?
no, but you will have tools and stuff
How can counselling help me?
Counselling can provide support, problem-solving skills, and enhanced coping strategies for issues such as depression, anxiety, relationship troubles, unresolved childhood issues, grief, stress management, body image issues and creative blocks. Many people also find that counsellors can be a tremendous asset in managing personal growth, interpersonal relationships, family concerns, marriage issues, and the hassles of daily life
Counselling can provide support, problem-solving skills, and enhanced coping strategies for issues such as depression, anxiety, relationship troubles, unresolved childhood issues, grief, stress management, body image issues and creative blocks. Many people also find that counsellors can be a tremendous asset in managing personal growth, interpersonal relationships, family concerns, marriage issues, and the hassles of daily life.
What can I expect in a counselling session?
A typical counselling session is 50 minutes long where you talk about your concerns and feelings with a trained professional. The counsellor will listen to you, help you make sense of your situation, offer perspectives, and suggest potential solutions. They may also give you activities or homework to help you apply what you’ve talked about in the sessions to your daily life.
Counselling can provide support, problem-solving skills, and enhanced coping strategies for issues such as depression, anxiety, relationship troubles, unresolved childhood issues, grief, stress management, body image issues and creative blocks. Many people also find that counsellors can be a tremendous asset in managing personal growth, interpersonal relationships, family concerns, marriage issues, and the hassles of daily life.
What can I expect in a counselling session?
A typical counselling session is 50 minutes long where you talk about your concerns and feelings with a trained professional. The counsellor will listen to you, help you make sense of your situation, offer perspectives, and suggest potential solutions. They may also give you activities or homework to help you apply what you’ve talked about in the sessions to your daily life.
Counselling can provide support, problem-solving skills, and enhanced coping strategies for issues such as depression, anxiety, relationship troubles, unresolved childhood issues, grief, stress management, body image issues and creative blocks. Many people also find that counsellors can be a tremendous asset in managing personal growth, interpersonal relationships, family concerns, marriage issues, and the hassles of daily life.
What can I expect in a counselling session?
A typical counselling session is 50 minutes long where you talk about your concerns and feelings with a trained professional. The counsellor will listen to you, help you make sense of your situation, offer perspectives, and suggest potential solutions. They may also give you activities or homework to help you apply what you’ve talked about in the sessions to your daily life.
If you would like to ask a question we didn’t cover, please contact our office.
What Our Clients Have to Say
All testimonials are used with permission.
“How life changing our work together has been. Akeiko has been and extraordinary advocate for change in the mental health system when it felt horribly impossible for me to access care. She has given me the safest space to bloom as a person in the midst of BPD and i am so grateful for the visual expression I’ve found in art burst.”
“I came to the realization that I was an undiagnosed autistic adult about a year before I started at Arches Counselling. However, there was always self doubt to this realization. I was constantly wondering if I was actually autistic or if I was making it up. Speaking with Akeiko at Arches really helped me learn a lot about myself and realize that my autistic experiences were valid. My experiences with counselling also helped me accept myself for who I am and who I’ve been the whole time. It’s not and easy process to reevaluate your entire life with a new lens and perspective, but having a safe space at Arches where I can discuss however I am feeling without judgment (and gain new, more hopeful perspectives) has been an extraordinary experience that has been invaluable to me.”
“Akeiko Rawn, of Arches Counselling and Consulting has made a remarkable impact in the lives of two of my children and therefore contributed to the health and vibrancy of our family as a whole. She pours herself into her roles as both therapist and consultant. She has a gift for connecting with youth and is a passionate and outspoken ally for neurodivergent youth. Akeiko helps empower youth to see themselves in a positive way, outside the realm of pathology. I would highly recommend Arches Counselling and Consulting to anyone seeking a skilled therapist for themselves or one of their children.”
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~ Alan Watts