Desiree L. Thompson, Ph.D.

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Who I Counsel

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Life Transitions:
Empty Nest Syndrome, Illness, Middle-Aged & Back at School

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Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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Mom Burn-Out

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Housewife to Business Owner

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Sadness and Overwhelm

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Bulimia and Body Image

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Past Family Abuse Issues

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Life After Domestic Violence

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Living with an Alcoholic

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Discovery of You: Self Growth

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Kept Women

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Questions You're Asking Yourself

  • Are you stuck...unsure of what to do or where to turn?

  • Do you feel lost, confused, and disconnected from others, yourself, or life?

  • Are you asking yourself where the vitality is? What the hell life is really all about?

  • Are you embarrassed about your situation and afraid to share where you’re really at because others just won’t get it?

  • Is your mind attacking you with self-loathing remarks . . . punishing you for the things you did, do, and perhaps will do, as well as regrets: the things you never got to?

  • Are you uncertain and afraid which path to take keeping you immobile?

  • Are you taking care of everyone else putting your own needs and wants at the lowest priority?

  • Have you lost yourself within others? Do you even know who you are anymore?

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
 ~Rumi

 

The Healing Process

Meeting your issues in a safe, non-judgmental, and confidential environment is where ‘real’ healing begins. I start by establishing safety first which is where trust is built.

Are you grasping to the seemingly healing processes that are plaguing the internet and the self-help industry? Daunted because you still have that hollow ache in your gut?

Thought and behavioural change is good for individuals that have already done a lot of deep work and self-discovery. There is definitely a place for it and I certainly integrate it whenever needed. It’s also good for people whose issues are light, or for those day-to-day life hiccups. However, most of the topics that I specialize in are much deeper than a daily crisis of bad traffic, patronizing family, or a name calling. The topics that I specialize in must be resolved from the source; and, I’m here to support you in that process.
 

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
 ~Rumi

The topics I specialize in, I understand well, so I know that confidentiality is essential.

Together, we begin to untangle the web that you’ve weaved; something that has been established in your childhood years and carried on for much too long.

You will rebuild your life and create your own identity.

Whether you continue to stay in the same relationship(s) or the same job, it is irrelevant. What’s relevant is how you begin to live your life. When you discover who’s underneath that veil, your energy begins to shift in a new direction spontaneously! You begin to shed your skin and metamorphose into something that, perhaps, you never thought possible.
 

What I Will Do

I’m not here to change you. You are here to discover who you really are. And, only you can do the work. I walk along side prompting, exploring, and encouraging. I listen, acknowledge, empathise, observe, accept, support, and understand. Also, I am objective and very curious.

You and I will work mainly with the causes which are the underlying problems rather than the symptoms. Doing so, allows your unconscious to become conscious – a way to begin moving the blocked energy from within. Something that may be frightening; however, that is why I am here, to support and inspire you with courage to keep moving through the darkness. Going to the source of your thoughts and behaviours provides you with a greater sense of freedom, strength, and wisdom to move towards the future; still, keeping you present. In addition to this, we work with coping and managing which allows you to meet the stresses of life with clarity and strength

Your Outcome

You can’t rely on me for giving you a result. You have to do the ‘work’. Inner work must be done to regain harmony of mind, body, and spirit. I unlock the doors of perception and ideas. You open it. I give you the paper, pen, and ink to write. You do the writing. I give you my curiosity for understanding. You expand, discover, and develop. You have to put yourself out there even when it’s scary, lonely, and ambiguous. When you do this, the outcome is to leave you with a sense of new found hope and optimism as issues no longer block you from living your fullest potential.

“Out beyond ideas of wrong doing
and right doing, there is a field.
I will meet you there.”
 ~Rumi

Benefits to Counselling

  • Safely telling your story: the secrets, the pain, the oppression, & the celebrations.

  • Finding power and choice when problems feel overwhelming.

  • Discovering your voice in the midst of abusive and other relationships.

  • Turning life transitions into seasons of discovery.

  • Developing new meaning in life.

  • Creating balance and harmony.

  • Learning self-care, self-love, and self-respect.

  • Growing meaningful relationships.

  • Reconnecting and rekindling your love for others.

  • Liberation from expressing intense emotions safely. Not being afraid of anger.

  • Uncovering new ways to respond to others’ reactions.

  • Recognizing the various degrees of loss and giving yourself permission to grieve.

  • Allowing yourself to experience the variants of life and just be.

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