Cultivating Comfort
About Cultivating Comfort
Supportive counseling and consultation services for individuals living with dementia, and their families, friends, life partners, and care partners:
Participants are offered emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial support as they navigate the dementia journey. The counselor and participants work together to explore their personhood and find meaning and hope in the face of change. Strengths, resources, and coping mechanisms are explored, educational materials are provided, and referrals are made as requested.
Grief and Bereavement Counseling:
Grief is our emotional reaction to many types of loss, including (but not limited to) death. Individuals living with dementia or other life-limiting illnesses may grieve the loss of their abilities, the future they imagined, their health, their independence, their homes, and many other aspects of their lives. Support persons may also grieve for the loss of the future they imagined, while struggling with the changes they observe, the transition to long-term care, and the anticipatory grief that they experience while watching a loved one decline. Participants may wish to discuss their grief related to ambiguous loss, end-of-life experiences, and death.
My Counseling Approaches:
I practice anti-oppressive, trauma-informed, strengths-based, and person-centered counseling. I approach counseling through a solutions-focused, existential framework. I help clients explore the sources of meaning and purpose in their lives in the face of uncertainties that accompany a diagnosis that leads to dementia, while validating their feelings of sadness, fear, or anxiety.
I work with clients to nurture and make the most of existing strengths and resources, to identify needs, and to provide the appropriate services, referrals, and resources.
Bereaved clients are companioned and supported through their grief as we explore coping mechanisms and ways of navigating their new reality.
I incorporate therapeutic horticultural techniques and other evidence-based creative practices into my support interventions (when clients express an interest) to promote a sense of relaxation and connection.
Services
- Anticipatory Grief Support
- Complex Grief Support
- Consulting
- Counselling Services/Mental Health
- Education and Training/Educator
- Hospice/Palliative Care
- Long-Term Care
- Resources
- Retirement Home/Senior Support
- Social Worker/Social Service Worker
- Support Groups
- Telephone/online support
Contact
| Contact: | Crystal Beaudoin |
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| Phone: | 1 (866) 993-7059 |
| Email: | info@cultivatingcomfort.ca |
| Address: | 1500 Upper Middle Road Unit 11 Burlington , Ontario L7P3P5 |