Kristin Whitelaw, C.Ht. D.M.S(c)
The feeling of “Peace” comes from knowing that you have the ability to handle anything.

A Peaceful Way Transformative Counseling helps you make changes in your life – changes that can make you feel happier, stronger, healthier, more confident and fulfilled - changes that help you stop feeling powerless,  in emotional pain, overwhelmed or hopeless.  If you find yourself unable to fulfill goals and desires important to you,  you can finally understand what you feel and discover the reasons you feel that way, gaining the ability to heal and successfully make the changes you desire and live the life that fulfills your true and authentic self.

At A Peaceful Way you will find an environment of warmth, trust and respect…a place of non-judgmental support, understanding and guidance -  you will find a safe place to work through your thoughts and feelings, being truly heard for what you are going through, how it feels and how it has affected your life. Your counseling experience helps you develop a clear sense of who you are. You will find answers to the questions causing you doubt or turmoil.  You can better understand yourself, your thinking patterns and emotions, your reactions and your choices. You will learn to guide yourself through life with self-awareness and inner confidence, understanding the power you actually have to create the life that truly represents who you are, what reflects your passions and desires.

To help you achieve this, I get to know your distinct and individual characteristics and qualities. I connect with you within your place of experience - I do not draw you into mine or towards any therapeutic structure or belief system.  It is your process and I am here to help you through it.                                  

With 25 years of training, education and experience, I have discovered the most effective and powerful methods to successfully bring healing and change. I provide guidance that supports your developing a deep personal understanding, with confidence and trust in your abilities, your insight and your wisdom when facing anything. I do this through integrating traditional and transpersonal counseling, including cognitive and behavioral therapy, hypnotherapy, inner child work, relaxation and stress reduction techniques, expressive therapies, guided imagery and other extremely effective and powerful methods of counseling. The counseling techniques help you explore, understand, heal and transform yourself and your life. You learn helpful tools for your every day life so you can begin to develop the inner strength to face experiences with an immediate sense of confidence and control. This greatly supports the deeper, more intricate process of healing taking place. As you heal you begin to embody the power that comes from knowing who you truly are, what you feel, how you think, what you want and need.  This reveals possibilities for yourself and your life that may have seemed impossible before.

Your unique spirit will always draw you toward the fulfillment of it's potential.