Jill Koehler, MA, RCC, FOT
Master of Counselling Psychology
Registered Clinical Counsellor
Focusing-Oriented Therapist
Communicating Well Counselling & CoachingRegistered Clinical Counsellor
Focusing-Oriented Therapist
Maisie the Poodle, HOP
Happy Office Poodle
Hypo-allergenic & Non-shedding
Communicating Well Counselling & CoachingHypo-allergenic & Non-shedding
Training:
- Focusing-Oriented Therapy
- Coherence Therapy
- EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing)
- Non-Violent Communication
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Understanding Emergency Worker Trauma Level 1 & 2
- Critical Incident Stress Management
- Prepare-Enrich Couples Assessment
- Bader-Pearson Couples Model
- Gottman Couples Model
Certification:
I am a registered and certified clinical counsellor through the following governing body:B.C. Association of Clinical Counsellors
Membership requires a minimum of a Master’s Degree in counselling, as well as clinical experience, and there are strict guidelines for professional behaviour.
My Philosophy…
So what’s counselling anyway? Is it years of lying on a couch à la Freud? Is it the hope of a few sessions to resolve long-standing problems? Counselling can seem like a bit of a mystery. We’d all like a quick fix to our problems, but real change requires commitment along with concrete strategies and tools.
I believe that within each of us is all the wisdom we need, but past and present experiences can get in the way of connecting with our own self-knowledge. With this disconnect we generally feel stuck and confused. Counselling is about increasing awareness of our thoughts, feelings, body sensations and response patterns towards both ourselves and others. As we can identify and name these experiences we are then in the position to begin to change them.
As a counsellor I endeavour to create a safe, non-judgemental space in which we can experiment with different tools and strategies to help you increase this awareness. As you become more familiar with your patterns of thoughts and behaviours it becomes easier to remove yourself from this cycle of reactions and to access your own intuition. You will no longer need to ask, “So what do I do?” Instead, you will begin to know within yourself how best to proceed.
About me…
I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Focusing-Oriented Therapist with an office in Squamish, BC.
I work with people location-independently via Zoom Video or in-person in my Squamish office. I specialize in counselling for stress & anxiety, relationships, self-regulation, trauma, and critical incidents, along with other areas.
I also offer e-learning courses such as ‘Level Up Your Relationship‘ to help couples communicate and create a relationship vision to move forward together.
In addition to working as a psychotherapist, I am a trained yoga instructor. I practice yoga regularly and am an advocate for the transformative journey of yoga and other contemplative practices. I am also a volunteer with Squamish Search and Rescue and provide Critical Incident Debriefing and Psychological First Aid.
Maisie is my office companion. She is a friendly, goofy, small standard poodle. She loves to be patted and to give the odd puppy kiss. Maisie is non-shedding and hypo-allergenic. She is also happy to go to another room if anyone prefers her not to be in the office. Woof!