Joan Spence
Counselling & Coaching Services Inc
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Hello, welcome to my website, I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Certified Organizational Coach. Currently, I work with individual adults as a Life Coach focused on supporting my clients in the areas of: managing stress; relationships: intrapersonal, interpersonal, communication; parenting; and grief and loss.
Memberships:
- British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC)
- International Coaching Federation (ICF)
- Canadian Reiki Association
Areas of Practice:
- Adults
- Communication Issues
- Goal-Setting
- Grief & Coping with Loss
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Neurodiversity
- Parenting
- Personal Growth
- Relationships
- Self Esteem
- Stress
- Women's Concerns
Modalities:
- Brief Therapy
- Gottman: Bringing Baby Home; Relationship Coaching
- Humanistic
- Motivational Interviewing
- Person-Centred
- Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy
- Solution Focused Brief
- Strength Based
Education:
- Certified Organizational Coach (UBC; PCC level)
- PostGraduate Clinical Training including: Clinical Psychology (Yorkville University), Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy, Gottman Couples Coaching and Bringing Baby Home Facilitator, Nobody's Perfect Parenting Program Facilitator, EMDR, DBR, Motivational Interviewing, Grief and Loss, Solution Focused Brief Therapy. Continuing Education Training/Workshops in areas of: Parenting; Mindfulness; Relationship/System; Grief and Loss.
- M.Ed (Honors)
- B.A. Child Youth Care (Douglas College, Honors/Dean List)
- Early Childhood Educator (Douglas College; Infant/Toddler Specialization)