A Holistic Approach to Therapy and Counselling
Corinne Teahen, MSW, BSW, BA, RCC
Psychotherapist, Registered Social Worker (RSW) & Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC)
Integrated Healing
Located in Beautiful Victoria, British Columbia
Offering virtual/online therapy sessions to clients throughout BC and Ontario with a goal of enhancing psychological & mental wellness.
Hi, I’m Corinne
—a therapist located in Victoria, BC who provides a safe environment to be heard with the attention you need and the tools to make the changes you desire.
I’m passionate about holistic health, listening to the intelligence of your body, living life to the fullest, and helping you to heal, grow, and thrive.
My therapeutic modalities for counselling integrate Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Somatic therapeutic techniques. Mindfulness practices and movement through yoga may also be incorporated to bring you into a more balanced relationship with your own body, mind, and soul.
I am a Registered Social Worker (RSW) in British Columbia and Ontario & a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors.
Life can be complicated at times.
Life can be complicated at times.
Therapy for adults is important to live a life of fulfillment, happiness, success, and love.
I’m dedicated to helping you find it.
Are you struggling with any of these issues?
Stress, loneliness, sadness, depression
Anxiety, panic, fear, trauma, shame
Loss, grief and bereavement
Self-esteem or self-confidence
Irritability, anger, aggression
Relationship challenges
Chronic pain
By practicing what I’ve learned through my own journey of emotional distress, healing, and education, I’ve been able to develop an approach that can be helpful to those traversing a difficult phase of their own life.
Therapeutic Approach
My therapeutic belief is that you are the expert in your own life and already have a wealth of knowledge to access. My approach for therapy will:
Start from where you are positioned
Guide you through challenging obstacles in your life
Assist you with developing coping strategies that are unique and dedicated to you
Implement the best therapeutic approach to meet your needs
My Hope For You
I believe in collaborative therapy sessions. I will ensure you are well informed about the therapeutic interventions, coping tools, and resources to help manage your symptoms. As we work together my hope is for you to:
Achieve specific goals through hands-on and practical approaches to problem-solving
Gain a new perspective towards your thoughts and feelings by teaching you evidence-based coping strategies to challenge unhealthy thinking patterns
Improve self-worth and confidence by helping you focus on your values and strengths
Provide you with somatic therapeutic techniques. This may include mindfulness practices and movement through yoga to help you regulate your nervous system and deal with situations that trigger strong emotions in the body
Regain a sense of hope and belonging
“There is no greater honour or privilege than facilitating the process of healing. To bear witness, to reach out a hand, and to share the burden for someone who is suffering.”
— Peter A. Levine
Enhancing Your Psychological Wellness
Although I had a significant amount of formal education including completing a Master of Social Work (MSW), I felt that something was missing in my knowledge and understanding. I knew that successfully coping with my own mental health journey would benefit my clients by enabling me to pass on effective coping tools. As a result, I engaged in a number of specialized CBT, ACT, Mindfulness certification programs and continue to participate in on-going professional education in Somatic Experiencing (SE) to enhance my understanding of the complexity of healing the mind, body, and soul. My pursuit of certificates and trainings in a variety of different yoga practices further developed my comprehension of the unique benefits that different forms of movement have on healing the body-mind.
“One way of directing our attention to deep information is to practice (as often as tolerable as possible) states of deep attention and deep concentration towards our breath, body movement, listening and connecting with another person, noticing the ‘field phenomena’ while in a dyad, triad or group, or towards the natural world.”
- Magdalena Weinstein
Therapeutic Modalities
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is one of the most common evidence-based forms of behavioural therapy that we may incorporate into the sessions to assist you in changing automatic thoughts and behaviours. It has been recommended for a variety of individuals and used to treat a number of different issues. CBT is focused on achieving specific goals through a hands-on and practical approach to problem-solving.
The goal of CBT is to help you challenge patterns of thinking, cognitive distortions, belief systems (core beliefs), and physiological sensations in the body that impact your reactions. CBT helps to influence different thoughts and behaviours to decrease emotional distress and improve interpersonal relationships. By developing new coping strategies, you can be helped to reduce negative symptoms, having a positive impact on your behaviour and overall well-being.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT is a well-researched form of therapy that blends acceptance and mindfulness skills in combination with commitment and behaviour-change techniques to help you build a life that fits in line with your values. The ACT model teaches you how to become more curious about your thoughts and provides tools to help you learn to create space or diffuse those thoughts, so they have less control. The ultimate goal of ACT is to increase psychological flexibility to help you focus on your values (knowing what’s important) & to take committed action towards the life you want to be living.
Somatic
Somatic Therapy theorizes that the mind, body, spirit, and emotions are all connected to one another. When trauma impacts the central nervous system it can result in negative changes in the body. Emotions that get stuck in the body from past experiences can be released by developing an awareness of the body-mind connection using specific techniques. This approach assists in decreasing the stress impacting the nervous system. It encourages the autonomic system to positively change and manage the fight or flight response and return you to a regulated state.
Somatic movement focuses on guiding you into a relationship with your own body to improve awareness of this connection. These practices can lead you to move towards embodying the intelligence of what your body already understands. It is an experiential approach to learning and has as the primary belief that the mind can be reshaped through the body.
Yoga Movement
Yoga movement modalities can become somatic when you can allow for an experiential approach to take place and let go of the act of doing. Engaging in your yoga practice in a somatic way is about getting to know your body more intimately”while entering a safe and informed practice of being at home in yourself.
You are the expert, the teacher and allow the wisdom of your body to guide you. Moving through your yoga practice in a more engaging manner by asking questions to check in with how you are feeling encourages you to be an explorer of your own body. This strengthens your ability to pay attention, observe habits that are no longer serving you, and develop new pathways and possibilities. The work that unfolds gives the body permission to release and change, which is a purely powerful experience.
I acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory Corinne Teahen Integrated Healing stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.