My Mission: Facilitating your journey with clinical expertise and compassion, supported with a pragmatic, non-judgemental, and (sometimes) irreverent and humorous stance.
Background
I started my career as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse and for over thirty years worked in Mental Health services, both in the public system and mostly in private practice. My specialty is in Cognitive Behaviorial Therapy and Dialecticial Behaviorial Therapy.
I am deeply interested in what influences and shapes a persons beliefs in themselves and the world we live in.
I am committed to understanding how change strategies can be applied to the habitual responses developed from interacting with our families, our peers and environment.
My Personal philosophy
Finding ones' Wisdom / Knowing one's Values, and holding that focus to guide choices is the key to Peaceful exisitng.
I believe we must differentiate 'Things that can be changed' from 'things that cannot be changed.'
By 'things' I mean our view of self, of others, of life, of past circumstances, and of the options that are ahead of us.
My services relate to meeting a person and bringing forth or changing the incuberances to "Living Well at every juncture".
I borrow from empiricial psychotherapy strategies AND hynpnotherapy.
Donna Hughes
Counselling, Hypnotherapy
Hi everyone, After an 18 month hiatus, I am happy to be offering consulting / counselling / psychotherapy. My approach and clinical strategies draw from CBT, DBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Motivational interviewing. I have special interests in working with families of persons struggling with chronic mental health issues including addiction. I have acquired additional credentials as a Certified Hypnotherapist. There may be specific symptoms specifically suited to treatment with hypnosis such as managing anxiety related to medical or dental procedures. I offer both in person and online sessions. Hypnotherapy in particular is ideally experienced in person, but that would be your choice and pertain to your targets for treatment. Please connect, I welcome a discussion to explore if I may be of help in some way.
