Psychotherapy and Life Management
As a therapist Liz has developed dimensions based on psychodrama theory, feminism, psychodynamic psychotherapy, the cognitive therapies and expressive arts. She works one-to-one with clients to meet both short and long term needs, and offers personal growth workshops several times a year.
Work with Individuals
Liz works with clients presenting a wide range of challenges and difficulties. E.g. Self-defeating patterns, alienation, perfectionism, loss and bereavement, relationship problems, workplace stress, anxiety, depression, and the challenges of parenting and/or caring for aging parents.
She is particularly active in bereavement counselling and she is an approved psychotherapist for referral from the Bereaved Families of Ontario.
Work with Groups
Liz brings thirty years of experience and a great love of group process to her groups. Believing Moreno’s statement that “We are all therapeutic agents of one another”, she delights in facilitating growth and encouragement of each group member.
Personal Growth groups begin with a theme and unfold in response to participants’ needs and readiness.
Life Management workshops introduce concepts, (such as befriending our defences, role theory, the nature of change, differing experiences of bereavement) and take participants through a series of experiential exercises to apply the concepts to their challenging life situations.
Upcoming Workshops
STILL LIFE
Finding Stillness, Choosing what is Life-giving, Letting Go of Everything Else
A two day workshop in Regina,Saskatchewan
Saturday and Sunday November 12 and 13, 2011
In the rush and tumble of the life that we have cocreated we often find ourselves doing the same old, same old things. Our conversations are all too familiar and our lives seem unfree and tiring. The first step in making a change is to find some stillness within, so that we can take stock of our energy, and determine what activities and roles are life-giving and what are draining. We can imagine choices that free up our spontaneity and offer new life to our relationships and creativity.
Even more exhausting can be our inner dialogues, our preoccupations with “if only”s and “Why didn’t I…. she…..? We can spend valuable hours of our lives complaining, blaming ourselves and others, lost in old unchallenged beliefs.
We will take time in this workshop, with action, art, music, and the company of others to find stillness, identify roles that may bring vitality to our days, and imagine letting go of the ideas and patterns that hold us back.
Saturday 9:30 to 4:30 Sunday 9 to 3
REgina Early Learning Centre Fee: $225
To register please contact Louise Handford at lmhandford@sasktel.net or (306)522-4213 or cell 529-0018
AND DO JOIN US SATURDAY EVENING FOR MY BOOK LAUNCH! Sign in with Louise.
Befriending Our Defences
Emotional Intelligence in Action
A One Day Workshop in Toronto, Ontario
Saturday November 26, 2011
We go along managing life in a reasonable way, despite the challenges. Then we or someone we care about feels threatened in some way. Enter the expert defence system. The defender is reactive, full of distortions and holding on for dear life.
Living defensively is familiar, tiring and alienating. Worse still, one defensive stance evokes another, and before you know it, the battle escalates, and the impasse is in place! With action methods, expressive arts, encouragement and humour we will find new mastery of challenging life situations that tend to evoke our defences. Bring your partner! Sign up your staff team!
- Experience a demonstration of four common defences
- Encounter and befriend your strongest defensive self
- Identify signals that warn of an impending defensive takeover
- Develop strategies for moving back into spontaneity and connection with others
- Learn which other people’s defensive roles are most challenging for you and why, and some ways to work creatively with them.
25 Keewatin AVe. Toronto Fee: $125 For more information or to register, please contact Liz at lizwhiteinaction@rogers.com .
The Day of the Spirit
This event, offered each year at the beginning of January, is my gift of thanks to those who have worked with me.This is an opportunity to take time, reconnect with others on the journey, pause to reflect on your own intentions and spirit, and be nourished by the companions, the program and the soup lunch.
in Toronto, Saturday January 7, 2011 9:30 – 4:30
25 Keewatin Ave. Toronto
Please register with me if you plan to come, so that the soup pot is full.
The Wise Hearts Group
is a group of up to twelve women who meet three times a year for residential weekends in the country near Orangeville, Ontario. The retreats are built around the personal growth agendas of the group members, and we use action, music, group process and quiet reflection to build our authentic selves with new roles that have been waiting to emerge. It is delightful. The meals are wonderful and the free time includes a labyrinth and walking trails.
Our first weekend was October 28 – 30.,2011. The next two are planned for January 28 – 30 and April 13 – 15 2012. There are a few spaces open for women to join the group in January for the last two retreats.