Kim Boivin-Sonolet offers counselling services to individuals and couples in the Vancouver area.

  • Are you longing for a better quality of life?

  • Are you struggling with anxiety?

  • Are you getting in your own way with self-defeating patterns?

  • Are you hard on yourself?

  • Are you suffering from depressive symptoms?

  • Do you want to be more in touch with your emotions?

  • Do you long for more intimate and connected relationships?

I can help. You’re not alone in your struggle. There are ways to make it better. From a place of care and compassion for you and an understanding that life is short, I don’t take the scenic route in working with you.

I can help you work through your defense patterns that take a toll on you and your relationships, reduce your anxiety, and have better access to your true feelings, needs, and wants. Through our work together, we team up to clearly identify what’s most helpful to work on in your life and what you want to do differently to free yourself up from needless suffering and empower yourself to be free to live your best possible life.

Connect with me today.

Let’s make positive change happen in your life!

 

kim@positivechangecounselling.com

Individual Counselling Vancouver

I work with people in many areas such as:

  • Improving relationships
  • Healing from historical & current abuse/neglect/trauma/losses
  • Recovery from Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Anxiety management including OCD
  • Anger management & impulse control Issues 
  • Processing losses
  • Working through depression/depressive symptoms
  • Building healthy boundaries & assertiveness & confidence
  • Building relationship skills including increasing intimacy
    & emotional vulnerability 
  • Building capacity to experience emotions (increasing affect tolerance) 
  • Freeing up from perfectionism & over-functioning
  • Increasing self-care
  • Becoming free from a variety of damaging defense mechanisms

I offer the evidence-based approach of Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) as an effective way to work in many areas. Key features of ISTDP include:

  • it’s trauma-informed & attachment-based
  • it’s collaborative & empowering 
  • working through anxiety & defenses (resistance) to more openness to emotions, vulnerability, connection & authenticity 
  • it’s more experiential & deep, less cognitive & directly psychoeducational

The fact that you are online researching counselling or psychotherapy means that you are courageous and you are taking responsibility for improving your life. I commend you. 

Registered Clinical Counsellor #2807
I acknowledge and appreciate that I ​live on the unceded traditional and ancestral Coast Salish homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm  (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, colonially known as Vancouver, BC, Canada.