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Larisa provides Counselling Therapy, Nature Based Counselling and Somatic Experiencing.
Counselling Programs
Counselling Therapy and Somatic Experiencing for Young People 12-18.
Larisa supports young people who are struggling with schoolwork, attendance at school, daily life activities, relationships, their development, self esteem, excessive use of screens, video games and/or phones often leaving them feeling anxious and/or depressed. Larisa supports young people using somatic experiencing, nature based counselling and many other simple supportive practices. She believes in the body's natural ability to heal from trauma and works to help the young people she serves listen to their body's wisdom.
Somatic Experiencing For Young People and Adults
Larisa completed the Somatic Experiencing Program in April 2024. She is currently a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. She will complete the Tao of Trauma program in September 2025. This mean she supports the adults and young people she serves to heal/resolve the patterns of trauma in their body. She understands that the people she serves are experts on who they are and what it is like to be who they are. She also understands that the people she serves will teach her how to best support them. She believes in the body's natural ability to heal from trauma. Larisa has supported people who have experienced pre-verbal, relational, intergenerational and developmental trauma throughout her entire professional career. She has completed and continues to complete training programs that have given her the knowledge and expertise needed to help people resolve the trauma patterns in their bodies.
Counselling in Nature
The impact of nature on humans is restorative, compassionate, wild, energizing, inspiring, enduring....Nature provides healing, fun, joy, introspection, fitness, nurture, food, well-being, stress reduction, oxygen, support for all of our senses, light and dark. I would imagine you could find your own list of the impact nature has on you?! For this reason, Larisa uses forest hikes, cross country skiing, sitting on a bench with tea, forest bathing and outdoor play in her counselling sessions. Enjoy a hike, tea and watching a stream, a ski or a nature activity you find helpful during a counselling session. Larisa weaves together nature's natural support and somatic practices. She understands Earth's classroom is a gift worth experiencing. A gift that can heal and soothe patterns of pain.
Somatic Practices
The word soma means body. This form of counselling, somatic, helps individuals to learn to listen to their body by understanding their nervous system. To support this process of listening to one's body, Larisa uses mindfulness practices, counselling methodology, reiki, hikes in nature, meditation, Quigong, Yoga and a program called Somatic Experiencing. Larisa completed the Somatic Experiencing program in April 2024. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. She is currently enrolled in the Tao of Trauma program and plans to complete the program in September 2025. These certifications and somatic practices help the people she serves experience themselves in a new way and yet familiar way and help their body to heal and resolve patterns of trauma. Larisa provides somatic experiencing, nature based counselling and counselling therapy to young people 12-18, to adults and to service to others professionals. She supports people who have experienced developmental trauma, relational trauma, pre-verbal trauma and/or intergenerational trauma. Larisa believes in a client centred, relational approach. She hikes with the people she serves, offers yoga postures, reiki and mindfulness strategies, somatic experiencing as a way to resolves patterns of pain and find embodiment. Larisa believes in the bodies natural ability to heal and resolves patterns of trauma.
Larisa Jeffares
Larisa has had extensive experience working with children, youth and families who have experienced events in their lives that were too much, happened to quickly and didn't have adequate support. Larisa invites people who have experienced relational, developmental, intergenerational or pre-verbal trauma, people who struggle with hoarding, people who have experienced acts of violence and hate, people who have experienced religious or spiritual abuse, people who find somatic and spiritual practices helpful and would like to use their spirituality in their healing and she invites professionals who serve other people to reach out, plan a consultation and possibly try a counselling session. Larisa believes in the people she serves and understands a human beings natural ability to heal from trauma.
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