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...differing experiences of death, dying and mourning) and take participants through a series of experiential exercises to apply the concepts to their challenging life situations.
Upcoming Workshops
Annual Women's Midsummer Retreat on the Island in Muskoka
You are invited to join a wonderful community of women on an island in Muskoka to take time for yourself.
This year we will welcome Teresa Brown, a psychodramatist and art therapist from Scotland who will work with me to provide the makings for a rich and creative experience. A delightful gift for our community!
As always, we live and work in community, sharing accommodation and simple and sumptuous meal preparation. The lake and its boats, the porch and its swings, the meadow and its quiet, the fireplace and its warmth all offer their particular charms. Time in the group is balanced with time alone for reflection and rest. Psychodrama, creative arts, music and stillness bring balance to our workshop.
Dates Wednesday supper time to Sunday noon August 6 - 10, 2008
Fee: $625
Befriending Our Defences
Emotional Intelligence in Action
A One Day Workshop in Guelph
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.
Date: Saturday June 14, 2008
Time: 9:30AM - 4:30PM
Cost: $80.00
Logistics: Dress comfortably and bring a bag lunch
Location: Orchard Park Office Centre, Board Room; 1/2 km north of Guelph on Highway 6, situated on the grounds of Ignatius Jesuit Centre (formerly Ignatius College) www.ignatiusguelph.ca/orchardpark
Register: Contact Muriel McMahon, 519 836 4042, murielmcmahon@rogers.com, Register early, space is limited!