MEET BRENDA BOULTON

Brenda Boulton
Brenda Boulton

As founder and owner of CREATIVE VISIONS COUNSELLING & CONSULTING, my approach to achieving emotional health and mental well-being for each of my clients is to focus on strengthening and unifying the 3 critical pillars of mind, body and spirit.

With services covered by most benefit programs, I am a registered social worker with over 30 years of clinical experience in a variety of health care and work place settings including:

  • addictions
  • mental health
  • medical social work
  • oncology and palliative care
  • social planning and project management

I am a practitioner of mindfulness meditation and yoga to promote the "body-mind-spirit" approach to therapy and healing.

I believe the most important component of successful therapy is developing a relationship of honesty, openness and trust between the client and the therapist. I embrace the qualities of being caring, present, compassionate and embodied within my practice.

There are many ways to achieve recovery, but there is no one size fits all.  It is to this effort I will work with you to get the right “fit” by discussing the issues that encouraged you to seek therapy and what you would like to see different in your life.

I utilize a number of treatment approaches to assist you to make the changes you desire and towards living a happier, healthier lifestyle. Together, we will create a program, based on your own inner strength and resources, to help them design your own path to better manage life’s challenges.

I am trained in and found success with a number of treatment models which include:

  • CBT and more specifically the 3rd wave called ACT
  • EMDR
  • solution-focused therapy;
  • eco therapy
  • motivational interviewing
  • mindful embodied practice
  • narrative
  • EFT
  • Tobacco Cessation.

I have been fortunate to have diverse life experience which includes world wide travel, living schooled and working in 3 provinces and 8 communities across Canada.  All this contributes to the diversity of resources that I bring to my work with clients, businesses and communities.

All these areas enrich the experience in therapy to help manage life difficulties to increase/expand your coping strategies.

 

RELEVANT TRAINING & CREDENTIALS

  • BRAINSPOTTING (Phase 1)
     
  • EMDR – Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (2013 from EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs (HAP) Connecticut, USA )
     
  • MBSR  -Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (professional training under the direction of Jon Kabat Zinn and Saki Santorelli)
     
  • TOBACCO CESSATION SPECIALIZED TRAINING (Centre for Addiction & Mental Health)