Emergency, Military, Health Care Workers in Victoria, British Columbia

Counselling at Nolan Lighthouse Counselling, Victoria, British Columbia, for First Responders, Military, and Health Care Professionals is an opportunity to confidentially examine the impact of your work and unique needs to ensure that you are physically, mentally, and emotionally fit for duty.

Counselling can help you grow within your job. Your vision of who you are and how to live a meaningful and satisfying life while staying in your profession can be examined within your counselling sessions. 

First-responder professionals often find individual counselling to be helpful during high-stress times. This may be due to dealing with health problems, pain disorders, or suffering from acute stress disorder, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Some individuals seek counselling to work on personal growth, while others may have questions about their beliefs and spirituality in the face of crisis, loss, grief, bereavement, and significant life transitions and changes.

First Responders

Often, First Responders are the last to seek help. Police officers, corrections officers, sheriffs, soldiers, paramedics, firefighters and disaster relief workers usually find it difficult to emotionally process the traumatic incidents they have witnessed. Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD) is a genuine threat to First Responders' mental health. Caroline understands the unique stress of working in high-stress situations and can give you some psychological approaches to help manage and treat symptoms that arise from being exposed to trauma.

As service members and their families face the stress of multiple deployments, seeking individual and family counselling can help during these stressful times. Military families face unique challenges. Not only long deployments of the serving member but the adjustment back into their family home can be complex. The tendency to bring home the regimental nature of work may prevent the member’s ability to be sensitive to the emotional needs of their family. Counselling at Nolan Lighthouse Counselling, Victoria, British Columbia, can help during the adjustment period of deployment and relocation, help members deal with Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD) from exposure to trauma while serving in combat and help their spouses understand the emotional needs of their military spouse. 

Health Care Professionals 

Professionals working in Health Care have stressful jobs, and their health may be affected.  These professionals still have to go to work and try to manage how they are feeling.  They may be unable to take lots of time off unless they have a severe diagnosis.  They may have to cope with a debilitating chronic illness, fatigue or burnout and have to find ways to manage at work and around their family members as well. This can be stressful and lead to anxiety about their ability to continue working, their level of competency and what the future might look like. 

Caroline's experience as a health care professional allows her to help you identify areas for exploration and work toward better stress management professionally and personally.

What to expect from your counselling session?

During your 50-minute session at Nolan Lighthouse Counselling, Victoria, British Columbia, Caroline will work with you to address your current needs.

Confidentiality is of the utmost importance, and clients' identities and sessions' content, apart from certain legal situations outlined at the beginning of the initial session, are kept entirely private.

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