Monika Brandstaetter

EMDR Basic Training Membership
EMDR Certified Therapist Membership

In my practice, I offer individual counselling to adults who have experienced trauma, and are struggling with emotions of anxiety, depression, shame, or grief. We all have our own history of experiences, and we tend to react in specific ways under stress. While our response was our best option in the past, it may not be adaptive now. I can help you resolve past traumas, learn to accept what is, and move forward from there – developing ways to a fuller and more satisfying life.Building on my background in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), I now mostly use Internal Family Systems (IFS, Level 3 trained), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR, certified practitioner), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in my work. My high quality training, along with personal and professional experience provide me with excellent skills to help alleviate symptoms of anxiety, depression, hopelessness, and so forth, going beyond talk therapy, and being able to support clients change deep seated beliefs of worthlessness or helplessness.Incorporating the life affirming IFS model of self-leadership into my personal life and healing work, leaves me feeling even more enthusiastic and very blessed to be working in the counselling profession.

#416-620 View street , Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 1J6

Phone: 250 8853065
Email: monika@heartofthemattercounselling.com

Population Served:

Adult

Languages:

English, German

How EMDR is Offered:

Both online and in-person

Areas of Expertise:

Anxiety
Attachment Focussed
C-PTSD
Depression
Dissociation
Grief & Bereavement
PTSD
Pain
Panic Attacks
Phobias
Physical Abuse
Sexual Abuse