Counseling and Coaching
At Portland Lifestyle Counseling I offer professional and confidential counseling and coaching that is process, activity, and results oriented. I do not treat or diagnose any mental or physical disorder - but I can assist you with situational stress, sadness, fear, and worry stemming from your lifestyle, wellness, and self care concerns.
Through traditional "talk" counseling I can help you examine and change emotional patterns and mental blocks around health, lifestyle issues, caregiver stress, and barriers to wellness. Through coaching I can help you set reasonable wellness goals, create a healthy lifestyle or self care plan, and support you as you practice new skills that can help you meet your wellness goals. Counseling sessions can also be activity focused. Let me guide you in innovative and creative activities that foster skill building and encourage real world practice. Activity sessions could include adventures in healthy grocery shopping, conscious eating exercises, mind/body walks, veggie tasting, "out of the pan and into the can"- junk food kitchen clean out, and more.
Often when making lasting lifestyle changes "will power" alone can produce momentary changes, but can eventually leave you feeling defeated and frustrated when the changes are not sustainable over time. The result: deeper connection to unhealthy lifestyle habits. My style is intuitive and down to earth with a sense of humor. Emphasis is placed on self acceptance, loving kindness, creativity, and relationship with Higher Self guidance - essentials that can support you in making sustainable lifestyle changes.
Methods include:
- Counseling and coaching that focuses on thought and emotional patterns that influence physical health and wellness.
- Lifestyle and holistic health investigations that look at your current state of physical wellness, meals, eating style, nutrition, exercise routine, stress management, coping skills, and more.
- Fun and creative activity sessions such as kitchen "junk food" clean out, veggie tasting, conscious eating, healthy grocery shopping, and more. We can be as inventive and creative as you want to be.
- Replacement of unhelpful foods with nutrient rich foods and inactivity with sustainable physical activity.
- Visualization exercises and spiritual attunement with your Higher Self guidance.
- Mind/body exercises for increased body awareness, emotional release, and sensory awareness.
- Flower essences to assist you energetically with changes.
- Psychological/spiritual cards to help you name elusive issues.
Contact Joy to make an appointment by email or by phone at (503) 309-1163