Healing Begins with a Safe Connection.
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Meet Stephanie Underwood, RSW
The power of telling your story in a safe space allows you to transform the foreign into the familiar—making the unspeakable speakable. Your narrative and yours alone, can bring you awareness and closure.
As a trauma-informed social worker, I offer a holistic approach that considers the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of a person's well-being. My goal is to create a safe, compassionate, and empowering environment that enables my clients to find a new sense of hope, strength, and relief.
By working together, we can achieve long-lasting changes that lead to improved relationships, increased self-esteem, and reduced anxiety.
Prevalence of Trauma
89% of adults in the U.S. have experienced at least one traumatic event.
Counselling Approaches
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A trauma-informed approach to counseling centers on understanding how your past experiences influence your current thoughts and feelings. I provide a supportive space that recognizes and addresses the enduring impact of life's challenging moments on your mental and emotional well-being.
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Attachment-based counseling focuses on understanding how an individual's early attachment experiences influence their current interpersonal relationships and behaviors.
These early experiences can shape how one relates to others, affecting their ability to form secure and healthy connections.
Attachment-based counseling aims to address these underlying patterns, promoting the development of healthier, secure attachments. This therapeutic approach often involves exploring past relationship dynamics to enhance self-awareness and adjust maladaptive attachment behaviors, facilitating more fulfilling and secure relationships in the present.
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Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a therapeutic approach that emphasizes the importance of emotions and attachment styles in shaping personal identity and interaction patterns. By integrating principles of attachment theory, EFT helps clients explore and modify their emotional responses and relationship dynamics. This approach is especially effective in treating relationship distress, as well as individual issues such as anxiety, depression, and trauma. Through EFT, clients gain insights into their emotional patterns and attachment history, leading to improved emotional regulation, strengthened relationships, and enhanced overall well-being.
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A System's approach is like looking at the big picture of your life. It's a way of understanding how your relationships and the world around you influence the way you think, feel, and act. This approach helps us explore the effects of broader factors, like culture and society, on your well-being.
Serving Clients Across Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta
Areas of Specialization
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Panic Disorder
Social Anxiety Disorder
Phobias
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Depression
Dysthymia (Persistent Depressive Disorder)
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Acute Stress Disorder
Adjustment DisordersTrauma
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD)
Betrayal Trauma
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Eating Disorders (Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder)
Crisis Intervention
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Marital and Couple Conflicts
Family Dynamics
Interpersonal Relationships
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Job Stress
Career Burnout
Work-Life Balance
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Distress Tolerance
Emotion Regulation
Interpersonal Relationships
Discover My Counselling Services
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Explore my counselling services with a 30-minute free consultation. This initial session is designed to help you understand how counselling can be tailored to meet your unique needs. During this time, we will discuss your goals for therapy and determine how I can best support you.
This consultation offers a safe space to begin your journey towards healing, with no obligation to continue.
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Stephanie provides 50-minute Telehealth counselling to clients across Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta. Her approach incorporates attachment theory, trauma-informed care, and a systemic perspective.
Stephanie helps clients develop more secure attachment patterns, manage their emotions, and build healthier relationships by exploring the impact of their social context. Her counselling services offer a comprehensive and holistic approach to supporting clients' mental health and well-being.
Individual sessions run between 50-60 minutes.
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Attachment-based couples counselling typically involves helping couples identify their attachment styles and how they impact their relationship dynamics. It also includes exploring past experiences that may have shaped a person's attachment style, and how these experiences continue to affect their current relationships.
Telehealth counselling services are conducted via a secure online platform, which allows you and your partner to participate in counselling sessions from the comfort of your own home.
Sessions typically run between 60-90 minutes.