Counselling in Vancouver and New Westminster

Qualifications

Laura Bradley is a Registered Professional Counsellor with the Canadian Professional Counsellors Association and a Certified Group Facilitator.

Practice Description

My vision is to support clients in journeying inward to discover their true potential. Integral to my therapeutic style is my belief about the purpose of struggle in our lives, and how and what we use our struggles for. We have ways of avoiding our feelings, our pasts, and our limiting beliefs about ourselves and others; for example, we distance from those we most want to be intimate with, or develop patterns of addiction, or have affairs. These means of avoidance are like a temporary fix for a bigger problem; they give us momentary feelings of satisfaction, excitement, or completeness. They hold the promise of the fulfillment of whatever we deem to be lacking in our lives, but, ultimately, they fail, and we are left alone and with ourselves, back at the state of the original problem. These patterns of thought and behaviour are no longer working for us; however, if we can only see our struggles with these patterns as signals, or, if you will, flag posts, indicating that there is something to be uncovered and discovered, then we can use our struggles to help expand ourselves, our relationships, and the world. So, the places of our struggles become rich sites of excavation and exploration.