Counselling Icon

Holistic Counselling for Optimal Wellbeing

At Seek Optimal Wellbeing, we understand that true health encompasses the body, mind, and spirit. Our holistic counsellor, Krystal, offers personalized guidance to help you achieve optimal wellbeing through mental, emotional, and spiritual support, tailored to your unique needs.

What is Holistic Counselling?

Holistic counselling is a comprehensive approach to mental and emotional wellness that considers all aspects of an individual’s life. Rather than focusing solely on symptoms or specific issues, holistic counselling looks at the whole person – including emotional, physical, and spiritual health – to create a customized plan that supports your overall wellbeing.

Krystal’s Approach

 

Personalized Assessment

Every journey begins with a thorough assessment of your mental and emotional health history, lifestyle, and current challenges. This allows us to understand your unique needs and goals.

Customized Counselling Plan

Based on your assessment, Krystal will develop a personalized counselling plan tailored to support your specific mental and emotional health objectives. This plan will include various therapeutic techniques, mindfulness practices, and strategies for managing stress and enhancing your overall quality of life.

Ongoing Support and Education

Achieving optimal mental and emotional health is a continuous process. We provide ongoing support through regular follow-ups, educational resources, and adjustments to your counselling plan as needed. Our goal is to empower you with the knowledge and tools to make informed choices about your mental and emotional wellbeing.

 

Some areas that Krystal works with are:

  • Trauma
  • Personal Growth
  • Addictions
  • Child Growth and Emotional Wellness
  • Couple’s and Family Counselling

Nurturing Your Mind, Body, and Spirit for Complete Wellbeing. Book your initial consultation with Krystal today!

 

Counselling

Counselling Services

Mental Health
Self Care
Individual Counselling

Individual counselling sessions offer a comprehensive approach to your personal growth. We start with a check-in to help you become aware of how you’re feeling and follow it with a grounding exercise to help you center yourself. Then, we explore the topics you want to discuss using a mix of therapeutic methods tailored to your needs.

The session can include examining relationship patterns, addressing and reframing negative thought patterns, and exploring different aspects of your internal experience. Techniques to manage bodily responses, support personal growth, and enhance self-awareness are incorporated as needed. We also focus on reconstructing and finding meaning in your personal story, and understanding and regulating your nervous system.

These approaches offer benefits at a cellular level, such as reduced stress, lower blood pressure, improved immune function, and better sleep quality. They also help boost confidence and provide freedom from negative thought patterns, enhancing emotional resilience and overall well-being. We’ll end with a thoughtful discussion to review what we’ve covered and set up personalized action steps or homework to support your continued progress. The session is designed to adapt to what you need and focus on your unique journey.

Couple's Counselling

In couples counselling sessions, a holistic approach is used to enhance your relationship. The process begins with a check-in to understand your current dynamics, followed by a grounding exercise to help both partners center themselves. From there, concerns are addressed with a flexible approach tailored to your needs.

Depending on your situation, the focus may be on resolving conflicts, enhancing your connection, and addressing any trauma or ongoing issues that may affect the relationship. New strategies are also explored to tackle persistent problems.

Deepening your connection can lead to improved intimacy, a better sex life, enhanced sleep quality, and overall health. Emotional closeness elevates oxytocin levels, which supports better cardiovascular health, reduces stress, improves immune function, and promotes restful sleep. Feeling more connected and supported enhances overall well-being and happiness.

These sessions aim to reduce stress, improve emotional resilience, and strengthen your bond. They can also boost confidence in the relationship and provide relief from persistent issues, leading to greater satisfaction and better communication. The sessions are adaptable to your needs, focusing on what’s most important for your relationship and offering practical benefits for a healthier, more connected partnership.

**An extended session is available to delve deeper into the issues at hand, allowing for more comprehensive exploration and addressing complex aspects of your relationship. **

Family Counselling

A family counseling session offers a thorough approach to enhancing your family dynamics. We begin with a check-in for each member to reflect on their current state, followed by a grounding exercise to create a safe and centered space. We then address the topics that are important to your family, using a flexible approach tailored to your needs.

By examining your family through a systems lens, we understand how each part fits together and affects the overall family structure. We may work on a variety of topics, such as improving communication skills, managing stressful situations, decreasing aggression, and handling differences. Additionally, we can address areas like family roles and boundaries, clarifying responsibilities and setting healthy limits. We might also focus on developing effective parenting strategies, resolving conflicts constructively, and navigating family transitions like relocation or divorce.

Other topics include enhancing emotional support, addressing specific behavioral issues, and bridging cultural or generational differences within the family. These areas help reduce conflicts, enhance connection, and increase overall enjoyment. The session aims to support your family in managing challenges and fostering ongoing growth. We’ll conclude with a discussion to set personalized action steps or homework, helping your family continue to progress and strengthen your relationships.

Trauma Counselling

Individual trauma sessions will start with a check-in to understand how you’re feeling and perform a grounding exercise to help you feel centered. We then explore the topics you wish to address, using a flexible approach tailored to your needs.

We examine how trauma impacts both your body and mind, focusing on integrating traumatic experiences and releasing trauma stored in the body. We address and reframe trauma-related thoughts and behaviors, helping you manage your nervous system responses effectively. This approach aids in reducing stress and anxiety, improving overall emotional regulation, and fostering a greater sense of stability.

We also work on reshaping and finding meaning in your personal story, increasing your awareness of emotional experiences, and harmonizing different parts of your internal experience. Processing trauma effectively can lead to improved physical health, such as reduced symptoms of chronic pain, lower blood pressure, and better immune function. It also enhances mental health by decreasing symptoms of depression and anxiety, improving sleep quality, and boosting overall well-being.

The session concludes with a review of what we’ve covered and the establishment of personalized action steps or homework to support your ongoing growth and healing. The session adapts to what you need most, with no fixed agenda.

Personal Growth Coaching

Experience the transformative power of tailored one-on-one sessions designed to nurture self-discovery, boost confidence, and enhance personal development. Each session is crafted to help you unlock your potential and achieve your personal goals. By focusing on your unique needs, these sessions provide a supportive and empowering environment where you can explore your strengths, overcome challenges, and thrive.

Personal coaching offers profound benefits across various aspects of your life. Mentally, it enhances self-awareness and resilience, helping you develop a clearer vision for your future. Emotionally, it fosters improved well-being and reduces stress, contributing to a more balanced and fulfilling life. Physically, coaching can positively influence your overall health by promoting better stress management, which in turn supports cellular health and vitality.

In relationships, personal coaching enhances communication and understanding, leading to deeper and more meaningful connections. Overall, personal coaching enriches your quality of life by empowering you to reach your goals and live a more satisfying and purposeful life.

Synergetic Play Therapy

A Synergetic Play Therapy (SPT) session begins with a warm check-in to help your child become aware of their current state and establish a sense of safety. This is followed by a grounding exercise to create a calm and secure environment.

The heart of the session involves engaging your child in various types of play. Art therapy allows them to express their emotions and experiences through creative activities like drawing or painting. Sand tray therapy provides a sandbox and miniature figures for constructing scenes that represent their inner world, offering a visual and tactile way to explore their feelings. General play therapy includes imaginative play, helping your child communicate thoughts and emotions that may be challenging to express verbally.

These play methods are integrated with a focus on supporting your child’s emotional and cognitive growth. By utilizing the brain’s natural processes for creativity and emotional integration, SPT helps children process and make sense of their experiences, fostering emotional resilience and addressing maladaptive pathways.

The session concludes with a thoughtful wrap-up, offering time for reflection and discussion. Personalized action steps or activities are set for your child to work on at home, supporting their ongoing development and emotional well-being.

Addiction Counselling

In an individual addiction session, Krystal offers a comprehensive approach to overcoming addiction. Each session begins with a check-in to understand how you’re feeling, followed by a grounding exercise to help you center yourself. She then explores the topics you want to address, focusing on the emotional and psychological roots of addiction and how they impact your well-being. Krystal will integrate various therapeutic principles to tailor the approach to your needs.

We address how addiction and attachment pathways are interconnected, emphasizing that addiction often fills gaps left by broken attachment pathways. By working together to restore these connections, healing can occur, making the addiction pathway less dominant. This process helps in reestablishing healthier attachment patterns, leading to long-term recovery and personal growth.

In your sessions, Krystal employs a blend of techniques to support your journey, including methods for managing trauma’s effects on the body and mind, strategies for regulating your nervous system, and approaches to enhance self-awareness and motivation. The sessions conclude with a thoughtful discussion to review what we’ve covered and establish personalized action steps or homework to support your ongoing recovery.

The benefits of this approach include improved emotional resilience, a better understanding of your addiction’s roots, and the creation of healthier, more fulfilling connections. This can lead to greater freedom from addiction, enhanced well-being, and a more balanced life.

Anxiety and Panic Relief

These focused therapy sessions are designed to help you overcome anxiety and panic attacks, promoting a sense of calm and resilience for both your body and mind. Each session is tailored to provide effective strategies for managing and reducing anxiety.

We start by exploring your anxiety triggers and then move on to practical coping techniques and exercises to build resilience. The process involves connecting the mind and body, which enhances your awareness of how physical sensations can contribute to anxiety and supports relaxation.

We also focus on understanding and regulating your nervous system responses, helping you manage stress more effectively and achieve a state of calm. This can improve overall physiological balance, reduce physical symptoms of anxiety, and enhance emotional stability.

Additionally, we address underlying trauma that may be fueling your anxiety, working to reshape negative thought patterns and alleviate the impact of past experiences. We explore and harmonize different parts of yourself that might be contributing to your anxiety, promoting greater emotional coherence and reducing inner conflict.

Creative approaches are used to help you express and process emotions non-verbally, offering a beneficial way to release pent-up feelings and gain new perspectives.

Overall, these sessions aim to help you understand the root causes of your anxiety, develop practical coping mechanisms, and achieve a more balanced and peaceful state of mind. By addressing both mental and physical aspects of anxiety, you can experience improvements in overall well-being, including reduced stress levels, enhanced emotional resilience, and a greater sense of inner peace.

Fibromyalgia Recovery and Support

Each session begins with a check-in to understand how you’re feeling and evaluate your overall well-being. We discuss any challenges or difficulties you’ve faced since our last meeting, focusing on processing these experiences together. The goal is to understand your feelings, recognize positive developments, and celebrate your progress.

You will be provided education on managing fibromyalgia symptoms and offer practical strategies tailored to your needs. We explore various approaches to support your well-being, starting with techniques to help manage stress and promote relaxation. We also address physical sensations associated with pain and explore any underlying trauma that might be contributing to your symptoms.

Incorporating Polyvagal Theory into our sessions helps regulate your nervous system responses. This theory focuses on how the autonomic nervous system affects your overall sense of safety and well-being. By applying techniques to enhance your body’s ability to shift between states of relaxation and alertness, we aim to reduce stress and improve your resilience.

Engaging in therapy for fibromyalgia can offer significant benefits for both your body and mind. It helps in reducing the intensity of symptoms and managing pain more effectively through relaxation and stress management techniques. Therapy supports emotional resilience, aiding in coping with the emotional impact of chronic pain and improving overall mood. By understanding your body’s responses and learning strategies to handle stress, you can experience better sleep, reduced fatigue, and enhanced daily functioning. This holistic approach not only addresses symptom management but also fosters a greater sense of control and well-being, contributing to a more balanced and fulfilling life.

Krystal Poje

KRYSTAL POJE

Passionate and dedicated with 10 years’ experience, specializing in holistic healing, integrating trauma modalities with self-awareness and self-compassion to foster a mind-spirit-body connection, creating a safe space, and nurturing environment. Deeply committed to guiding individuals towards resilience, balance, and congruence that cultivates self-empowerment and healing from shame and past traumatic experiences, she strives to facilitate transformative, sustainable change and overall well-being to support lifelong health and healthy connection to self, others and to Creator of heaven and earth.

Counselling Icon

3 Tips for Preparing for Your First Counselling Session

N

Reflect on Your Goals and Concerns

Take some time before your session to think about what you hope to achieve through counselling. Consider the specific issues or challenges you want to address and any goals you have for your mental and emotional wellbeing. Writing these down can help you communicate your needs clearly during your session.lum

N

Gather Relevant Information

Be prepared to discuss your mental health history, any current or past treatments, and any significant life events that may be impacting you. Having a list of medications, lifestyle habits, and other relevant details can provide your counsellor with a comprehensive understanding of your situation.

N

Open Your Mind to the Process

Approach your first session with an open mind and a willingness to engage in the process. Understand that counselling is a collaborative effort, and being open and honest with your counsellor will help build a strong therapeutic relationship. Remember, it’s okay to feel nervous or unsure – your counsellor is there to support you and create a safe, non-judgmental space for your journey.

Counselling

“Through personalized counselling sessions, mindfulness practices, and practical strategies for managing stress, I have gained invaluable insights and tools to navigate my daily life more effectively. Krystal’s empathetic and non-judgmental nature created a safe space for me to open up and work through my challenges.”

Better Health Care is Our Mission

Delivering individualized health care for the modern era

778-234-2266

778-234-2266

17-45966 Yale Road, Chilliwack, BC V2P 2M3