Transforming Emotions

Norette René-Gougeon

MSW, RSW (she/her)

Registered Social Worker

Life can be hard, especially when transitioning through different life stages or when trying to improve our relationship with ourselves or with our loved ones.

If you ever feel like you get stuck in ways of thinking, behaving, or feeling that intensify distress and create barriers to healing, I am here to provide support. I work with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, parenting struggles, emotional dysregulation, low self-esteem and life-stage transitions. I will support you in exploring and understanding the cause of your struggles to help you develop a more comfortable way of moving through the world.

Beyond working with individuals, I’m passionate about providing family therapy for adult siblings. I work with siblings to explore unhealthy recurring patterns within the relationship and how these patterns may be reinforcing feeling misunderstood, invalidated or disconnected from each other. I can offer guidance in deepening an awareness of each others’ emotional world using an attachment informed, family systems lens and drawing from principles of emotion focused therapy. I will work with you and your sibling/s to redefine or rebuild a healthier family connection.

My approach is strengths-based, non-judgmental, culturally sensitive, collaborative, client-centered, and trauma-informed. My practice is primarily informed by Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) and Attachment-Based Therapy although I also integrate Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Self Compassion and Mindfulness where applicable in my work.

I welcome you to reach out for a free consultation to learn more about the ways in which I can help you move forward.