Counseling and Therapy | Happyness Center

Counseling Overview

Counseling can be helpful to people who are struggling to cope with daily life for a long time or people who need support to move them through challenging moments. We provide a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental space that allows the clients to reflect, learn, and heal themselves.

In psychotherapy, there is a paradigm shift happening from cognitive therapy to emotional therapy. Mental health depends on healthy mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual factors together with the environment. Studies on physical health, emotional well-being, happiness, wisdom, and longevity suggest that our ability to be aware of our inner world (feelings, thoughts, emotions, and memories) is crucial to our inner resilience and inner peace.

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Integrative Consciousness Counseling and Therapy (IccTherapy)

“Integrative Consciousness Counseling Therapy” (IccTherapy) combines integrated approach in supporting the clients. IccTherapy believes in the whole person and if one part is not working properly, then all the other parts will be affected. So, we assess the client in terms of mind and body association that includes emotional and spiritual well-being. IccTherapy is very helpful to diverse clients who are looking for a unique approach to help resolve their mental and emotional issues.

The primary goal of IccTherapy is to help clients actualize their Higher Consciousness. We empower them to discover their true authentic Self and discover inner happiness. We provide customized guidance and adapt various evidence-based theories and techniques, and time-tested holistic methods including yoga philosophy, breathing, relaxation, and meditation.

The counselor will focus on helping the client to

Assessment to understand their issue from a deeper perspective
Look at what techniques or intervention strategies might the client need to apply and bring forth resolution to their crisis.
To realize what results the client achieves and discover.
The work in the therapy session is done collaboratively as teamwork.
We will see as to what is working and not working during the therapy sessions and customize the therapy to suit the client’s needs and goals.

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Dealing with Stress

Stress can lead to Alcohol, Substance abuse, chronic pain, or lack of relaxation.
Counseling and Therapy can help address your stress that occurs as a result of life events. Counselors can help you identify your triggers of stress while collaboratively developing a plan with you to manage them. When workplace issues lead to stress, therapists can help a person explore ways to deal with those issues. Different types of treatments can help reduce stress effectively.

Anxiety and Depression

Anxiety and Depression can affect your mental health when you experience it every day. Depression can feel like you may never get out from under the dark shadow. If Depression is not allowing you to live the life you want to live, then come and seek help.
Counseling can help to relax and understand the cause of these feelings and suggest ways to deal with the situation either at home, work, or outside. It can help increase your self-esteem. The counselor helps with cognitive-behavioral models as well as Yoga Therapy to alleviate or treat presenting symptoms relating to anxiety and depression.

Trauma and PTSD

When we go through a traumatic experience, it can seem like we’ll never feel safe again. PTSD from any past trauma can leave us feeling unsafe and stuck.
With a new perspective and skills, we can release the painful memories and feel safe again. We provide theories necessary to assess and therapeutic skills to treat victims of physical and sexual abuse in the context of family and social violence. Whether the trauma happened recently or a long time ago, we can help find therapeutic ways to release and let go of the painful memories and heal by building inner resilience.

Online Therapy

We live at a time where the boundaries of physical distance can be reduced. Our intention is to offer counseling and therapy service to you in a time sensitive manner.
Online therapy is brought to the privacy of your home that is professional, confidential and safe. Choose your right therapist without any geographical boundaries.
Why choose remote counseling and therapy as opposed to your local therapist?
You may not have a therapist in your community with the experience or specialty you need
You may not have access to a local therapist who provides remote accessibility when you are homebound.
You may be concerned about confidentiality and prefer to see a therapist from outside your community.
You may be wanting a convenient service available at the comfort of your home.
We use the Zoom platform that is simple and easy to use. Zoom uses double ended encryption and is approved for use by PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act). If you are using a computer, no download is required. If you choose to use a tablet or smartphone, an easy-to-use downloadable app is available.

Mental Health

Mental health affects our thinking, feeling, and action. It includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood and as an adult. There are many factors that contribute to your mental health problems, including biological factors, such as genes, brain chemistry or unpleasant traumatic experiences, abuse, or any family history of mental health problems. Long term mental health issues can affect our thinking, mood, and behavior. It helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. While many people suffer from mental health, it is sometimes scary to take the first step towards change.
Our counselor understands your challenges and provides you with tools and practices to support you with your mental health and develop a plan in collaboration with you.

Couples Counseling

As we grow as individuals, our relationships change as well. Oftentimes this change is positive and reflects a mutual growth, but at other times this personal growth (or struggle), impacts our romantic relationships. It takes additional effort or support to get back on track.

Are you tired of constantly fighting with your partner? Do you feel that something has to shift for you to stay in your relationship?

Couples counseling focuses on assessing the unique challenges within the relationship and providing evidence-based methods for repairing and strengthening the bond. Counseling with the right tools can help you to shift your relationship back in the direction of healing. Typically, this requires a commitment of initial assessments and an individual session(s) before developing a strategy on how best to move forward with goals. This allows the counsellor to have an accurate picture of the relationship dynamics before moving forward with a treatment plan.

Whether your relationship is in serious trouble or just need a "tune-up", the counselor will help guide you to a fuller, happier and more peaceful relationship.

Young Adult

Any individual who completed their high school can be described as a young adult. Young adult issues may consist of difficulties with peers, sexual, or developmental concerns, new career anxiety or career challenges, family differences, and so on. They might have not fully developed a sense of identity. These young people are away from their parent’s shadow but have not yet developed wings of their own. Many young adults also move into new adult roles and responsibilities early where they may begin higher education studies, enter the workforce, move away from home, or even start a family. If they have not figured out the ways of life and how to deal with unknown situations, it can be challenging to make their own decisions. Some might also be facing mental health challenges.
The counselor understands the young adult issues and guides them as a friend in a non-judgmental way. The counselor will help to build their self-identity and support them to incorporate moral and ethical principles in their life.

Spiritual Counseling

Spirituality is becoming more and more important in many people’s lives, particularly as they grow up. People who are searching for a meaning or purpose in life or having challenges with their very existence will benefit from spiritual counseling. Spiritual counseling focuses on a person's spiritual side. Some people seek spiritual counseling in order to explore and get clarity of their own personal spiritual beliefs. Our Counselor is a non-denominational, and his goal is to absolutely not convert or change a client's faith or religion, but to guide individuals on their own paths toward mental, emotional and spiritual healing and growth.

Executive Coaching

Designed specifically for Executives, CEO's, and Senior Managers. Learned soft skills will help to set clear expectations, clear communications and commitments from the team, and bring sharp accountability enabling senior level managers to get the right things done consistently. The coaching will improve communication challenges with the team, conflict management, lack of focus or concentration and any challenges in guiding team members.

Life Transition

Life is unpredictable and sometimes extremely difficult to handle certain changes. There is no guidebook to tell us what to do. Life transition can cause anxiety, depression, tension in relationships, healthy symptoms, lack of interest, problems eating and sleeping, and many more. Our Counselor understands losing someone close to you and will help you with the understanding and support in overcoming your loss. The strength in this situation is knowing when we need to ask for support. Our services include supporting adults with transition well through the expected and the unexpected changes in life.

Counseling Approaches

Each counselor has their own unique approach to working with clients. My approach is to

Understand the root cause of the issue,
Develop a treatment strategy to confront the issue using the right therapy,
Provide right tools and techniques to apply and help with a resolution,
Help to set a realistic and achievable goal.

Some of the Therapeutic Approaches used in ICCT:
· Yoga Therapy
· Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
· Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
· Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
· Solution Focused Therapy
· Narrative Therapy
· Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
· Psychodynamic Therapy
· Motivational Interviewing