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Catherine Sullivan Counselling Services

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Catherine Sullivan Counselling Services

Regain confidence. Re-establish connections. Re-build a sense of safety. Accepting new clients! In person appointments on Friday mornings.

EMDR can help you re-process traumatic memories so they aren’t disturbing anymore. Talk therapy can help you learn new ways to understand your feelings. I work with those who have experienced trauma to help them heal and gain a better understanding of how to move forward. I now offer I-CBT to help treat OCD. This is an upstream treatment that targets the obsessional doubt(s) underlying the compuls

ive behaviour(s). I can help you regain your confidence, re-establish connections with yourself and others, and rebuild your sense of safety. I offer a safe space for you to unpack the relationship patterns that haven’t been working, and explore how trauma may be impacting your life. Together we’ll rebuild the foundation of your relationships with yourself and others. Using an eclectic mix of therapeutic techniques, including EMDR and I-CBT, I can help you begin to feel like yourself again. From this stronger foundation you can move forward and not have your past trauma(s) continue to affect you in the present. You can learn how to re-shape obsessional narratives into reality based ones. By reconnecting with yourself, you can learn to regulate your emotions and set healthy boundaries in your relationships with yourself and others.

06/11/2025

Stronger Together relaunch!
Course is only available until June 13th so don't miss your chance! It’s $250 which is a bargain!
Click on the 🔗 in my bio to buy the course.
There are two new modules - one on child protection and one on family law. We know these are scary and things people worry about when leaving an IPV relationship so we've got you covered.
We also added quizzes to each module as recommended by our awesome beta testers. There is also a bonus recording of shows and books that I've read/seen since we recorded module 3.
You don't want to miss out on all this! So purchase the course NOW!

06/02/2025

Stronger Together relaunch!
Course is only available from June 2nd to June 6th so don't miss your chance
Click on the 🔗 in my bio to buy the course.
There are two new modules - one on child protection and one on family law. We know these are scary and things people worry about when leaving an IPV relationship so we've got you covered.
We also added quizzes to each module as recommended by our awesome beta testers. I'm also adding a bonus of books and shows I've read/seen since we recorded module 3.
You don't want to miss out on all this! So purchase the course NOW!

05/18/2025

Took advantage of the nice weather the other day to read outside in my swing chair. This is my happy place in the summer.

04/27/2025

I don't usually get political but the upcoming Federal Election is too important to stay silent about.
If Pierre Poliviere wins we will have a Conservative PM, a Conservative Premier and Donald Trump and that my friends is a recipe for disaster.

If you resonated with any of the things in this post then voting Conservative in the upcoming election is not the way to go. They are not interested in ending or upholding any of these rights and in many cases they want to reduce them. Not sure if they'll go as far as in the States but I don't want to find out!

Below is information on voting strategically to help stop a conservative from winning in your riding. There is also information on where to vote.

📍 Find Your Riding & Candidate Info: https://www.elections.ca/
🔎 Strategic Voting Guide: https://www.strategicvoting.ca/
📊 Polls and Projections: https://www.338canada.com/

04/25/2025

I don't usually get political but the upcoming Federal Election is too important to stay silent about.
If Pierre Poliviere wins we will have a Conservative PM, a Conservative Premier and Donald Trump and that my friends is a recipe for disaster.
How can we avoid this? By VOTING!
I know people say that their vote doesn't count or won't do anything but they are WRONG! It's important to have your say and voting is the way to do it.
If voter turnout is low the people who do tend to vote are the more privileged few and they have a tendency to be conservative. The conservatives pass bills that are hamful to women, marginalized communities, people with mental health issues, people with disabilities and the list goes on.
So if you don't want to have them running both the province and the country for the next 4 years you need to VOTE my friend.
Below is information on voting strategically to help stop a conservative from winning in your riding. There is also information on where to vote.

📍 Find Your Riding & Candidate Info: https://www.elections.ca/
🔎 Strategic Voting Guide: https://www.strategicvoting.ca/
📊 Polls and Projections: https://www.338canada.com/

04/15/2025

As promised.

04/14/2025

Jumping on this bandwagon. Here's my counselling action figure. Stay tuned tomorrow for the yoga edition.

04/06/2025

My self care assignment this afternoon was doing yoga with these cuties. My daughter and stepdaughter also joined. Had a great time playing with the kittens and also managed to get in some yoga.

04/02/2025

Since I have a lot of new followers I thought I would take the time to reintroduce myself here.

Picture #1: I’m a registered social worker and I do therapy in my private practice. I work online and in person at my office (see bio for details). I work with people who have suffered trauma and are dealing with anxiety, OCD and attachment wounds as a result. This trauma might have occurred in childhood or might be the result of intimate partner violence (IPV). Myself and my colleague have developed a course to help survivors of IPV. To get on the waitlist click the link in my bio

Picture #2: What you might not know about me is that I’m a big yogi! I love yoga and actually got my 200HR YTT a few years ago though I have never actually taught a class. Yoga has such calming and grounding abilities and it’s helped me to deal with my chronic pain and anxiety. You’ll often find me hanging out doing hot yoga and exercise classes.

Picture #3: In case you haven’t noticed I LOVE TO READ!!!! I have been posting a lot lately about books and book reviews. I could talk all day about books and I read about a book a week so there will always be lots to discuss. I have combined my passion for reading and supporting IPV survivors into a Top 5 IPV Books List along with reflection questions. This way you can think about the themes of the books while you’re reading them and compare them all at the end. Click in the link in my bio to download this awesome FREE RESOURCE!!

Picture #4: My cat Baxter. Photo credit to my daughter for catching him mid lick :). I got him 2 years ago when my beloved dog passed away. I always said I was a dog person but this guy has been slowly working his way into my heart and now my allegiances are split.

03/08/2025

Happy International Women's Day!
A day to celebrate all things female. I don't have enough room to write about all the things that need mentioning. Take a moment to reflect on all the things that women in your life have accomplished. Remember that they did this despite living in an oppressive patriarchal society which made it that much harder. If they have other areas of intersection such as being women of colour or have a disability for example things would have been even more difficult for them.
So on this day let's celebrate women for all they have accomplished and all that's yet to come!

02/22/2025

Since my book club reel yesterday talked about library books I thought I would share a post on how to get a library card.
I get most of my books - paper and electronic - from the library. If I didn't I would probably be bankrupt. There's no risk in getting a book from the library because if you don't like it you can just return it at no cost to you. Well I suppose technically your property tax is helping to fund this service so you might as well take advantage.

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Ottawa, ON

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	9am - 7:30pm
Thursday	9am - 11:30am
Friday	8:30am - 12pm

Telephone

+13433405031

Website

http://www.catherinesullivancounselling.ca/

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