Category: <span>Bergen and Associates Counselling News</span>

I love “win win” situations. I work towards those with clients and in my own life. We’ve had a great “win win” around here, and are enjoying every minute of it: Rebecca Salzmann has her BA in social sciences and is preparing to begin her education to become a therapist…but she wants to take some …

Sometimes something seems too good to be true…except that it is! Linda Churchill started her internship with us today. She in an advanced intern…we weren’t quite sure what to call her. Our position has always been that we only hire therapists that have Master’s level of counselling/therapy training to be counsellors at Bergen and Associates …

Our Smith Street location once again has openings available for new clients. Nadia Sawaya has begun seeing clients at both of our locations, on Pembina Highway as well as the downtown location at Smith and York Streets. Nadia is warm and engaging, and has an enthusiasm for her craft that makes her great to work …

Today’s edition of the Winnipeg Free Press has the announcement that Jennifer Lockhart and Stephanie Albiani are beginning to provide services at Bergen and Associates Counselling.         Jennifer Lockhart began just a few weeks ago. It has been great to have her gentle and professional presence around. She pays attention to detail …

Grass generally doesn’t have a chance to grow under our feet around here. We run a high positive energy office around this place. It’s a fun happenin’ place to be. The pace just went up this week though! Fatima is a graduating student from Coll ge universitaire de Saint-Boniface in business. She is working with …

I tell my students at the University, that when you really want to know about what a patient is up to in the hospital, the Occupational Therapists need to ask housekeeping staff. The housekeeping staff know if the patient is really able to get up out of bed, how much they are talking, and if …

I apologize for my lack of recent blog postings…I had some sort of viral bug last week. Anything that absolutely didn’t need to get done…didn’t. I’m back on the mend now…or at least I’ve decided that is going to be my approach this week. Here is a picture of an orientation session that Melanie is …

Bergen & Associates  Counselling  is 10 years old today! Brian, Lynn and Gary surprised us with cake to celebrate. A day with a Jeanne’s cake is a good day! What a fun way to acknowledge the day!   Of course, it looked a lot different 10 years ago than it does today. September 29, 1999, …

  I can almost smell the fresh wood shavings (off of newly sharpened Laurentian pencial crayons) this time of year as school starts as I remember the years of loving those brand new tall pencil crayons waiting for projects to color. The smell of fresh plastic with the carboflourocarbons (or whatever they are called) wafting …

Our official sign was posted on our Smith Street location. It looks great, and we look like we officially belong. Rod is working downtown and the new location is working out fabulous. Our neighbors are fun and easy to get along with. The room is relaxing and conducive to important therapeutic conversations. We are thrilled …