Paul Fox B.Sc., MA, RP, SEP
Registered Psychotherapist
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Peterborough, Ontario
Winter 2024 UPDATE
2024, I will be seeing clients through Video and In-Person sessions. Please be sure to select the correct option when booking.
Only existing clients will be able to book sessions through the online system at this time. If you would like to be added to the client wait list please email me directly through the secure email system - click here ....
New client booking starting June 2024.
To connect with a Psychotherapist sooner ... see my colleagues, Andrew and Jennifer below
Thank You
Paul
M.Sc., M.A. Counselling Psychology
Registered Psychotherapist
(CRPO # 11542)
Yes,
Andrew is taking new clients at this time
More info about Andrew Here...
Jennifer Garland, B.A., M.A., 
Counselling Psychology
Registered Psychotherapist
(CROP #9914)
Peterborough Crisis Lines - click here!
Counselling & Psychotherapy
A common goal in this kind of work is to enhance insight and awareness. Through increased awareness, our interactions should elevate your sense of personal well-being.
Psychotherapy offers an opportunity to engage in a process that is designed to collaboratively explore current problems and better understand their root causes. Emphasis is placed upon increasing awareness of recurring patterns and offering new perspectives and responses.
The collaborative work we do is based on an understanding that our biology is impacted by our historical emotional as well as physical experiences. Our nervous system can also be overloaded with stress or trauma from existing or past situations and all of this can have a negative impact on our ability to function in the world (go to school/work, maintain intimate relationships, form goals, organize action plans, problem solve).
You may find it difficult to concentrate, remember, or process new information. It is possible you may find it difficult to understand social situations or relate to others in a meaningful way. You may find that you are having the same relationship over and over again, but with different partners. Have you ever said, "Are there no reasonable men/women left in the world …. Why can't I find them? What is wrong, why do they always treat me this way?"
Research has shown that when the nervous system is overloaded (stress, trauma, physical illness) then our personal resilience is reduced and our capacity to respond to daily experiences becomes difficult. Relationships become challenged and our capacity to be loving, open, creative, compassionate, understanding, and nurturing is compromised.
Areas that often come up for clients:
- Feeling trapped
- Past events and trauma
- Communications issues
- Intimacy (physical and emotional)
- Personality issues
- Sexuality
- Conflict
- Anger
- Employment
- Relationships
- Anxiety / Depression
- Addictions
- and much more
If you would like to engage in some deep personal work (one-on-one) in a safe and comfortable location, please let me know so we can open the door of awareness together.
Often we see others who are struggling and need support but we just don't know what to do. Please share this information with anyone you feel would benefit from one-on-one support and deep personal work. Thank you for your interest in personal growth and planetary
healing.
I am presently working with individuals, couples and small groups.
If you would like to contact me for more information, to set and appointment, or to get directions to my office, click here for contact information.
(My work is informed by Neurobiologically informed Trauma Therapy, Attachment Theory, Polyvagal Theory, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Integral Theory, to name a few.)
Psychotherapy Regulations in Ontario
To review an introduciton to Registered Psychotherapy and its regulations in Ontario click the link and follow to the College of Registered Psychotherapists and Registered Mental Health Therapists of Ontario (CRPO)
What is Psychotherapy
As defined in the Regulated Health Professions Act, the controlled act of psychotherapy involves five elements:
- there must be a psychotherapeutic relationship between client and RP
- the RP must be providing psychotherapy treatment intended to help individuals improve mental health and wellbeing
- the RP must be using a technique that is captured by the broad categories of prescribed therapies: cognitive and behavioural therapies (such as CBT, DBT, MBCT), experiential and humanistic therapies (such as art therapy, music therapy, Gestalt), psychodynamic therapies (such as Adlerian, Jungian, Reichian), somatic therapies (such as biofeedback and EMDR), systemic and collaborative therapies (such as narrative therapy, family systems theory). For a non-exhaustive list of therapies that fall under the prescribed therapies, click here.
- the client must be suffering from a serious disorder of thought, cognition, mood, emotional regulation, perception or memory; and
- the client’s disorder may seriously impair the individual’s judgement, insight, behaviour, communication or social functioning.
It is important to note that all five of the elements must be present for an activity or intervention to fall within the controlled act of psychotherap
Life Coaching
Whatever your circumstances, goals or dreams, it is clear your life is always in transition. Are you determined to move through the transition with grace and personal power? My practice is informed by Integral Theory, Eastern and Western traditions and common sense.
Individual Coaching is a great way to move through challenges or decisions that need a guiding hand along the way. Think about a coach for an Olympic athlete, strategies for success are formed, results are observed and measured, adjustments or follow-up is based on the goals and the most recent outcomes.
This same strategy is used for personal life coaching. Your personal goals are discussed, strategies for success are implemented and then the results measured. Many times adjustments are made based on the results from the coaching strategies in a continual journey toward personal accomplishment.
Personal coaching is a great way to get deeper clarity on areas of life that may be unclear or confusing. If you would like to meet the challenge of your life in a way that will open your heart and your mind, give me a call.
Individual and group sessions are available by request.
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College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario - Web Site
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