Stone Reef Psychotherapy + Recovery
Nanaimo • Squamish • Online
Video Counselling | Telephone Counselling | In-Person Counselling
Now Accepting New Clients
Welcome.
To anyone reading this that may be struggling, reaching out and asking for help can be scary. Seeking counselling is a courageous first step on the road to change. We honour our clients courage by offering a safe, compassionate, and authentic relationship to navigate life’s challenges. Counselling is a challenging and rewarding process. It promotes personal growth, life satisfaction, happiness, inner peace, and balance. There will be uncomfortable moments during therapy that will be challenging, but we believe personal growth can only happen when we safely process uncomfortable thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and memories.
Our goals are your goals. We can help you understand how the past impacts the present and how to cope with thoughts, emotions, and somatic sensations to create the life you’ve always wanted. Feeling empowered, hopeful, and peaceful is possible. We would be honoured to be a part of your journey.
– Ryan Slobodian, Founder/Therapist
Areas of expertise
Trauma Counselling
Trained by world renowned trauma expert Dr. Gabor Mate, and having countless years of experience working with PTSD, Ryan and his associates help individuals manage trauma every day. Ryan’s original research and presentations on trauma have been published and presented to thousands of people across North America at major conferences and online.
Sex Addiction Therapy
The opposite of addiction is connection. As a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), Ryan and his associates are highly specialized in the world of addiction and help clients get on the road of recovery daily. Ryan has been directly trained by leading experts in the field of addiction, Dr. Patrick Carnes and Dr Gabor Mate, and has been a presenter at several major addiction conferences in Canada.
Couples Therapy
Relationships can be difficult at the best of times, but even harder when betrayal, trauma, or life stress has been introduced into the relationship. Ryan and his associates use attachment theory and Emotion Focused Therapy techniques to help couples get to the root of the problem and build communication skills to increase intimacy and connection.
Substance Abuse Counselling
Stone Reef Psychotherapy offers a comprehensive approach to treating addiction. We are trained to treat addiction through Dr. Patrick Carnes task model programming “Facing Addiction”, as well as other therapeutic modalities such as CBT, DBT, IFS and EMDR...
Enmeshment
Enmeshment can severely impact a person’s ability to be authentic and intimately know the self. Ryan has been trained by world renowned enmeshment expert Dr. Ken Adams. Ryan is also a Preferred Provider through Overcoming Enmeshment. Ryan and his associates help enmeshed individuals find their power and authenticity daily.
Depression Therapy
Depression and anxiety are debilitating conditions and can suck the enjoyment out of life. Specializing in several evidenced-based therapeutic models, Ryan and his associates use somatic, behavioural, emotional, and cognitive techniques to help individuals learn how to regulate their emotions and combat anxiety and depression.
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