I love my job, for multiple reasons…the well appointed offices, the smooth systems we’ve now got running like a well oiled machine, the clients who bravely show up to tell their stories ready to wrestle with new insights and move forward with courage. We are all far from perfect, but we show up anyway at …
What is Your Calling?
Our newest therapist, Lindsey Walsh, lets us in on his thoughts today… Do you have a calling? I’m guessing you probably do, even if you don’t know it yet. I must confess: I’m a late bloomer. A veeery late bloomer. Winter wheat late. Trick-or-Treating at American Thanksgiving late. Late. And yet, here I am, nearing …
Tale of a Wedding Part 1
Life took an incredibly sharp right turn for me this last winter when I met the man who is so special and so supportive and so loving and so kind I can’t imagine spending my life without him. He’s one of those men who has loved and was loved well in the past…a long and …
The Ring
I’ve been on my own for about 10 years now. I remember the first week I was alone rather like a blur…or maybe rather, I don’t really remember it at all. I wasn’t sleeping; I had lost weight; I was just putting one foot in front of the other. My friends were supportive and were …
The Leap into Love
I’m getting married. I’m engaged. Yep…the marriage therapist is herself entering into the commitment of a lifetime of love. I believe that we are created to bond closely with another. I believe in the power of connection. I have watched and facilitated relationships heal with trust being restored. I know that research says that those …
Introducing Beckett–and our favourite two time Grandma!
Our office manager, Melanie, loved being a grandma so much, she decided to do it all over again. Ava is the sparkle in her eye, and the screensaver on her phone, and the photo on the wall by her desk. And now,for variety, she had a grandson as variety to her adored granddaughter. Introducing Melanie’s …
Accident on the Coquihalla
**Trigger warning…some graphic accident info described. Stop reading if you could be triggered, please. After 4 days of travel, we were on the Coquihalla, almost to our destination on the West Coast…and then we came upon the scene. The tour bus had done a complete roll, landing on the side of the highway…missing all the …
Meet our new intern…Heather Pringle
Introducing Heather Pringle! We, at Bergen and Associates Counselling are thrilled to let y’all know that Heather Pringle is joining our team, beginning to see clients at the beginning of September. It has been tradition, ever since our first loved intern, Rod Minaker, phoned me up and told me how much sense it made for …
Care and feeding of your spirit
Last week I received a gift. As with every gift, the meaning of the gift is comprised of the giver, the gift, and the context of the gift. In each department…this gift is profound: The Giver: I received this from D*. M, D’s wife, attended The Daring Way ™ intensive in March. She loved it. …
Walk’n’talk therapy
Walk’n’talk therapy is up and running…er…walking, that is! 🙂 This was one brutally cold winter, and walk’n’talk therapy sessions were put on hold. We started this last summer…and decided we just loved the possibilities. I’ve begun them in the last few weeks and was once again reminded that we were meant to walk. Walking forward …