905.598 1859 Counselling & PSYCHOTHERAPY
Offices in Georgetown & oakvillE
shauna switzer, ma, mcp, Registered Psychotherapist #006934 Clinical director
Welcome to Switzer Counselling & Psychotherapy Associates
Our team is dedicated to our your well-being. We provide a warm and secure environment for individuals, families, children & couples to explore and improve their lives. We have years of experience optimizing client change through individualized informed, competent, & effective mental health care.
Please take advantage of our no obligation FREE 1/2 Hour Consultation with one of our psychotherapists.
These consultations provide an opportunity for you to make an informed decision before committing to treatment.
Our Treatment Focus
Our focus is to help individuals and families heal, energize, and become aware of their inner strengths. We achieve this by listening to your or your children's concerns and customizing an evidence based treatment plan right for you. Our therapies include:
Cognitive, Behavioural & Mindfulness Therapies
Relational Psychotherapy, Couple & Sex Therapy
Psychodynamic & Narrative Therapies
Emotion & Body-Somatic Therapies
EMDR Trauma Recovery Therapy
Child Play & Family Therapies
Affective, Affect regulation and Interpersonal Neuroscience, and
Spiritual interventions
Our Promise
We promise to be there for you every step of your journey. Our goal is to help you grow from your struggles, heal from your pain, and move forward to where you want to be in your life.
We support people to grow and transform their lives every day.
We Want To Empower You!
REACH OUT, its the first step to feeling better!
OUR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS HELP WITH DEPRESSION, ANXIETY & MORE
Depression, Mood Disorders & Anxiety Disorders
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)& Complex Trauma
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)& Complex Trauma
Depression, fear, and anxiety are some of the most common and uncomfortable physical, mental and emotional states that people may experience at some point in their lives.
Mindfulness and cognitive therapies emotional, sensorimotor, affect regulation strategies, interpersonal psychotherapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) help you recover motivation, perspective, and the joy that you once had in your life.
Our counselling and psychotherapy services provide a compassionate and safe place to discuss these issues and find solutions.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)& Complex Trauma
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)& Complex Trauma
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)& Complex Trauma
Trauma therapy supports the individual’s ability to cope with everyday life, leave the destabilizing aftermath adverse circumstances of the past behind, and embrace their future. Many children and adults experience difficulties with relationships and connection and symptoms such as dissociation, avoidance, anxiety, fear, depression, anger, and hopelessness that can linger for a lifetime without treatment.
Shauna Switzer provides treatment for childhood and adult trauma. Her approach combines Relational Psychotherapy with a successful and acclaimed evidence-based trauma therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and aspects of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Interpersonal and Affective Neurobiology.
Relationships, Families & Parenting
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)& Complex Trauma
Relationships, Families & Parenting
Relationship, parenting, family counselling and play therapy, based on the principles of
Theraplay®, can be beneficial to couples & families who are looking to strengthen their emotional connections. Step-families and blended families often struggle with grief for the loss of their previous family structure, while adjusting to new bonds and relationships.
Many families benefit from counselling who experience divorce and coping with children managing learning disabilities, depression, ADHD/ADD, or social phobia. Parents gain new parenting strategies and learn how to support their children‘s mental health during a significant and difficult time in their lives.
men, women, children & adolescents
Women's Issues
Women need support and care during different life stages and transitions: marriage, bearing children, fertility concerns, coping with menopause, aging, death of a partner, or recovery from abuse, trauma, disordered eating and divorce. Some of the most common and uncomfortable experiences for women occur during particular points in their lives, such as post-natal depression after giving birth and the confusing depression and anxiety that often occur during menopause. Through counselling and treatment, we are able to help you heal and thrive as you move forward in your life once again.
Men's Issues
Men face unique issues throughout their lives, often struggling with career problems and stressful work environments, fatherhood, marital distress, aging, illness, and hidden depression and anxiety. The male gender role often prohibits men from developing the emotional engagement and connectedness they deserve and desire. We can help you overcome and solve these problems and guide you through the counselling process.
Child & Adolescent Counselling: Self-Esteem, Social Fears, Depression, Anxiety & ADHD/ADD
Everyone needs to feel significant, valued, and important to their loved ones and friends. Yet, kids and teenagers often have experiences, such as school or cyber bullying, that undermine their confidence and shape a sense of low self-worth. Other socially generated threats to their sense of self-worth can lead to depression and anxiety. Counselling, psychotherapy, and family and play therapy build and support your child’s positive sense of self-worth and resilience, reduce depression and anxiety, and increase confidence and self-acceptance.
OUR THERAPY Toolbox
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) & Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) & Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) & Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Shauna Switzer's treatment for trauma, anxiety disorders, personality, mood, and depressive disorders and symptoms is a powerful integrative treatment. Shauna's method uses evidence-based approaches, such as EMDR, with aspects of Mindfulness, Relational Psychotherapy, IFS, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and , for kids and families, Therapl
Shauna Switzer's treatment for trauma, anxiety disorders, personality, mood, and depressive disorders and symptoms is a powerful integrative treatment. Shauna's method uses evidence-based approaches, such as EMDR, with aspects of Mindfulness, Relational Psychotherapy, IFS, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and , for kids and families, Theraplay®. This method transforms painful memories into growth and learning, turning suffering into something from the past that one no longer need avoid, fear, or relive in the present.
Call us, healing is just around the corner.
Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioural (CBT) & Dialectical Behavioural (DBT) Therapies
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) & Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) & Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
The evidence is out! Increasing your capacity to accept and observe your inner and outer experience calmly and with neutrality leads to both mental and physical health and well-being. Mindfulness based therapy is a core treatment approach that we offer to support your peace of mind. In fact, we combine treatment approaches, such as emotio
The evidence is out! Increasing your capacity to accept and observe your inner and outer experience calmly and with neutrality leads to both mental and physical health and well-being. Mindfulness based therapy is a core treatment approach that we offer to support your peace of mind. In fact, we combine treatment approaches, such as emotion and compassion focused therapies, with CBT, EMDR, and mindfulness based therapies to help you cope with difficult emotions & transform the lens through which you view the world. See the world through new eyes today!
Emotion-Focused, Theraplay® & ATTACHMENT Therapies
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) & Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Emotion-Focused, Theraplay® & ATTACHMENT Therapies
The powerful human needs inherent in our family & couple bonds often generate strong emotions and fears, leading to difficult relationship and parenting issues. Emotion-focused and experiential family, couple, and step-family therapy, often combined with play therapy based on the principles of Theraplay®, help families process their emoti
The powerful human needs inherent in our family & couple bonds often generate strong emotions and fears, leading to difficult relationship and parenting issues. Emotion-focused and experiential family, couple, and step-family therapy, often combined with play therapy based on the principles of Theraplay®, help families process their emotions, overcome their worries, and strengthen bonds, healing struggles between loved ones. We can help you establish peace and understanding in your home and relationships.
RELATIONAL & INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
THE RELATIONAL BRAIN
Neurobiological research over the past decade and more has revealed the radical relationality of human consciousness. That is, our brains are inherently social and are constructed and sustained within our important and primary relationships. We know now that our brains can change, grow and mature over our lifetime, thus, relational psychotherapy is beneficial at any age or stage of life.
THE RELATIONAL STORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
Psychological problems are viewed by relational psychotherapists as resulting from unhealthy, neglectful, or abusive relationships and experiences that shape our sense of self, our thoughts beliefs and feelings about ourselves, as well as our expectations of relationships. Relational trauma and disruptions lead to a variety of symptoms, poor emotion regulation, unhealthy relationship patterns, and psychological problems that impact our present day to day lives.
THE POWER OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP
There is much evidence that change from psychotherapy is a result of the quality of the client-therapist relationship, rather than from specific interventions used or strategies learned. Relational psychotherapy places the interactive exploration between the client and therapist at the core of treatment. The relationship produces shifts towards more organization, integration, and coherence in the client's self and life narrative. Long standing and recalcitrant symptoms reduce, as new relational experiences help change implicit ways of understanding and knowing the self and others. These changes lead to new capacities and quality in a client's relationships and life overall.
WHOLE BRAIN TOOLS, HYPNOTHERAPY, SAFE & SOUND PROTOCOL
develop the whole brain mental edge
HYPNOtherapy & The POWER of YOUR CREATIVE IMAGINATION
HYPNOtherapy & The POWER of YOUR CREATIVE IMAGINATION
The Neethling Brain Instruments (NBI®) is a revolutionary battery of instruments that strives to develop whole-brain thinking and indicates your personal thinking preferences.
What will the NBI® tell me?
The NBI® gives an indication of how you:
• communicate, act towards other people or in certain situations
• do business, learn, teach
• would
The Neethling Brain Instruments (NBI®) is a revolutionary battery of instruments that strives to develop whole-brain thinking and indicates your personal thinking preferences.
What will the NBI® tell me?
The NBI® gives an indication of how you:
• communicate, act towards other people or in certain situations
• do business, learn, teach
• would manage in a certain career
• solve problems, make decisions
The NBI® enables you to develop effective parenting strategies, and relationships, resolve conflicts in your personal and professional life, receive the best guidance in choosing a new career & best study practices
HYPNOtherapy & The POWER of YOUR CREATIVE IMAGINATION
HYPNOtherapy & The POWER of YOUR CREATIVE IMAGINATION
HYPNOtherapy & The POWER of YOUR CREATIVE IMAGINATION
You are still in control! We use hypnotherapy and the power of mental imagery to help individuals cope with negative emotional states, such as stress, anxiety, pain, fatigue & mood disorders. We also help them break bad habits or achieve other positive changes, such as weight loss. Mental imagery and soothing verbal repetition ease t
You are still in control! We use hypnotherapy and the power of mental imagery to help individuals cope with negative emotional states, such as stress, anxiety, pain, fatigue & mood disorders. We also help them break bad habits or achieve other positive changes, such as weight loss. Mental imagery and soothing verbal repetition ease the individual into a relaxed peaceful state of mind. Once relaxed, our minds are more open to transformative change.
Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP)
HYPNOtherapy & The POWER of YOUR CREATIVE IMAGINATION
Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP)
We offer the researched and evidence-based Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP) music therapy of Dr. Stephen Porges to help individuals initiate and access a physiological state conducive to well-being, positive engagement with others, and growth in learning. The treatment, administered over five consecutive days, was originally designed to suppor
We offer the researched and evidence-based Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP) music therapy of Dr. Stephen Porges to help individuals initiate and access a physiological state conducive to well-being, positive engagement with others, and growth in learning. The treatment, administered over five consecutive days, was originally designed to support those with autism, but is now used for a variety of mental health issues. We use it as a pre-treatment for ADD/ADHD, enabling individuals to more effectively engage in therapies aimed at developing social skills and awareness, and often prior to trauma therapy. The SSP often leads to dramatic changes in one’s ability to engage socially with more openness and feelings of safety in connection to others. The SSP is administered at our office over the course of five consecutive days (one hour per day).