Patricia Specializes in
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- Counselling
- Individual Counselling
- Marital & Relationship Counselling
- Pre- Marital Counselling
- Separation Counselling
- Coaching
- Financial/Budget Coaching
- Stress Management
- Life Coaching
- Mediation
- Family
- Divorce
- Bereavement & Loss
- Counselling
Patricia Smith is a registered social worker and a certified family and divorce mediator. She has been in private practice since 2000 with Haven of Hope Counselling Centre. A successful counselling facility that she co-founded. Patricia has extensive experience in the areas of individual, couples and family counselling and she has trained in the area of intensive sex therapy.
She has previously been involved in the field of children’s mental health.
Other areas of service include victims assist with the OPP, working with persons with
terminal illness and research and advocacy for those with mental illness. Patricia has completed a five year study with the centre for self-directed learning in cognitive human behavior. She has studied brain domination as it relates to human behavior and is currently working on a comprehensive and innovative approach to premarital counselling, with a view to reducing the chance of divorce for those couples who take part. Patricia has been successful in providing management training in the corporate field to facilitate harmonious working environments and providing understanding of human dynamics
within the work place. Patricia takes a client centred approach to working with clients in that she places each one of them within the context of their own lives and helps them take a holistic view of their challenges. Her goal is to work with clients to define their blockages in achieving harmony within their own realities and to find solutions
that will work for them for the betterment of their unique situations. Helping clients to move beyond their pain, elevate their self-esteem and to feel powerful in their daily living is the ultimate goal of all her interventions.
