About Lucas and Integral Counselling in Enderby

Integral counselling was started about 2 yrs ago as a small
home based office in Enderby BC .. I  offer appointments in
the evening only and some weekends. I have been in the
Enderby area for 3yrs before that I lived and worked in
Southern Ontario.

I am a trained Psychotherapist and have a Masters degree in
Counselling Psychology , a Bachelors  degree in Addictions
counselling and a Diploma in Drug and Alcohol counselling.
My work experience has involved working with youth , adults
and their families around substance abuse , working with
inmates in the corrections system to individuals living with
mental health disorders. I also work with Couples and
Individual  through their individual EAP programs.    
   Integral Counselling in Enderby ,BC.  
                       About Us
Awareness, Acceptance,Change

How does Integral Therapy work:

Integral Therapy is a , humanistic and holistic therapeutic
approach that focuses your efforts through an emphasis on
growth and well being . During your experience in therapy
with a practitioner of integral Therapy you will focus on
cultivating your own innate and personal capacities to
overcome psychological difficulties. Integral therapists believe
that this ability to self-heal is found within you, and only
needs to be discovered and explored. You will focus on a
positive, forward looking process of self-transformation. You
will learn how to understand and invoke your natural inner or
psychological power to live your life fully and follow your
own unique path through life. You might describe this as
understanding your own story.  A hallmark of the integral
approach is its broad acceptance and understanding of the
many different and valid paths that each of us travel upon on
our journey through life and towards greater wholeness.
Some people call this understanding "spirituality."


Others Have Described Integral Therapy This Way:

"Thus, this style of counselling work helps to cultivate change
in emotion, thought, physical well-being, personal choice and
action, and subtler psychic and spiritual energies."


While you may initially come to therapy for help with an
acute and immediate concern such as anxiety that interferes
with your ability to work, by examining your current and past
experiences, and exploring the meanings of your future path,
you might find yourself learning to:


-Survive a traumatic experience

-Get your relationship needs met more fully

-Stand your ground in a difficult life situation

-Find time to play with the kids and still have a life of your
own

-Make the best out of a serious health, work or life crisis

-Deepen your spiritual awareness

-Discover your real dreams in life

-Search for some more meaningful way of living


It is the combined effect of putting effort into positive
transformation at all these levels that can make the difference
for yo

What is my view of Integral Counselling:

Integral therapists look at how clients suffer both
psychologically and somatically. Clinical symptoms are
important references to them, as they  are  observable  
manifestations of a clients’ suffering. However, integral
therapists are mostly interested in the real issues that are
hidden behind the symptoms. As I mentioned above, the
hidden “root” issues are the cause of clients’ suffering.

Integral therapists understand that, in order to terminate
clients’ suffering, they will need to find out what the clients’
real issues are. In integral therapy, therapists will invite clients
to co-investigate their psychological difficulties and to locate
the cause of their suffering. Once the real issues emerge,
integral therapists will assist clients to deal with their issues by
enhancing their psychological strength. They use depth
therapy such as gestalt therapy and Transpersonal therapy to
allow clients to experience and develop their inner power.
When clients progressively experience their psychological
strength, their issues become less threatening and clients
develop into stronger psychological beings. They begin to feel
more powerful than their issues/problems. Consequently, the
symptoms will naturally lessen or diminish in the process of
integral therapy. The recurrence of psychological difficulties
will be reduced since future similar issues cannot threaten
them anymore.

In short, through integral therapy clients gain the opportunity
to access their inner potential and to grow towards their ideal
self.