Stacie Johnson
RPC-Provisional
Consultation, Counselling
-Registered Professional Mental Health Counsellor - Provisional (RPC-Provisional) with the Canadian Professional Counsellor’s Association (CPCA). -Diploma in Applied Psychology and Counselling, Specializing in Professional Counselling, with Honors, from the Kelowna College of Professional Counselling -Psychology Today Member https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/therapists/stacie-johnson/1370571
What I can Help With: - Healing from Abuse and Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence - Family of Origin Trauma - Depression - Anxiety - Grief - Relationship Issues - Codependency - Setting Boundaries - Addiction and Recovery - Life Transitions
THERAPEUTIC APPROACH: -Person Centered, with an Adlerian/Individual Psychology foundation and a Feministic Perspective. -Multicultural Competency -Appreciation of Diversity -Trauma Informed Care
My Journey Begins
My practice emerged, like many other mental health professionals, from my own personal experiences. For much of my early life, I found myself stuck in negative cycles, making choices that did not serve me, lacking the ability to set firm boundaries and obliviously repeating attachment cycles from early childhood. After "doing the work" to heal my own experience with trauma and abuse, I was astounded at how good it felt to experience life from a lense of safety and confidence. This also included learning to tell the difference between limiting beliefs developed in childhood, and the effects of ongoing societal oppression and experiences of partner abuse (One does not cause the other, and it is never your fault!). I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for the counsellors that I was able to utilize along the way, each one coming into my life at a different, but perfectly timed, stage in my healing journey, as I shed the layers of pain, sadness and anger to discover my true, vulnerable self. That said, not all counsellor's helped, in fact, some caused more harm than good, and that is why it's so important to me to be up to date on best practises and consistently challenge the dominant discourse that is in society and the mental health sector.
Healing can be a life long journey, and I would not be serving myself, or my community, if I didn't turn back to reach my hand out as a helper in society. My empathetic nature and past experiences are the fertilized ground in which my drive, education and training grow into purpose and practice.
Why I Care
Every individual’s journey is unique, and holding that space for others to grow is a privilege I hold dear. We all have quirks, or undesirable thoughts, feelings or behaviours, and we ALL deserve love and acceptance, especially from ourselves. We all deserve to feel whole.
