RiverPath Counselling
Emma Hutchinson, RSW, RCC
First Nations Health Authority Approved Mental Health Provider
Counselling Approaches
Riverpath Counselling offers a kind and nurturing place to settle in and process whatever needs to arise and transform during your counselling sessions. During counselling, it's important that you feel deeply heard and are supported to access your innate wisdom and resources. My role is to be fully present with you throughout each step of your journey, to offer tools when appropriate, and to guide you using dialogue and experiential practices that foster self-compassion, new perspectives, and healing.
Therapeutic models include:
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Collaborative
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Narrative
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Internal Family Systems
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Humanistic
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Mindfulness-based approaches
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Solution-focused
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Bio-psycho-social-spiritual
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing)
- Gottman Couples Counselling
Counselling at River Path is:
Strengths-based
Highlighting and cultivating your strengths can help you move forward in positive ways. Strengths can be found in everyday, often minute, choices and actions; in the stories of our lives; and in the ways that we show resilience in the face of life's challenges.
Collaborative
We work together to define your goals for counselling and choose approaches and pacing that work best for you. I will walk beside you every step of the way, asking for feedback and clarifying the direction you want to take.
Integrative
I’m trained in a variety of models including EMDR, Internal Family Systems, and talk-based therapies, and like to weave together therapies in ways that engage cognitive and creative parts of the brain.
A bit more about:
Internal Family Systems Therapy
Internal Family Systems is an evidence-based therapy that helps people understand and transform parts of themselves that they may find challenging and do so from a place of compassion and curiosity. You may have noticed different parts in yourself. For example, perhaps there's an anxious part or a part that struggles to set healthy boundaries in relationships. Perhaps you have a part that works hard to be healthy and another part that drives you to addictive or harmful behaviours. With IFS we can learn why our parts act the way they do and can help them to take on new, more supportive roles. We can get to the roots of our challenges and foster a more balanced way of being in the world.
Narrative Therapy
We all hold ideas, beliefs and story-lines about ourselves, the world, and our interactions. Without realizing it, these ideas strongly affect our behaviours, relationships, and the ways we feel. Narrative therapy supports people to identify and challenge the stories behind their feelings and behaviours and create richer narratives that are more supportive to our self-esteem and our path moving forward.