Welcome to Aware Within

Aware Within is an established and trusted psychotherapy counselling practice from Collingwood Ontario. Where possibility and change awaits you with a focus on personal healing, growth and empowerment with therapist Michele Wolf, RP (Registered Psychotherapist).

Everyone has their unique reasons to seek counselling. Often, it's for gaining support with a current challenge or life transitions. Or, for support around long-standing unhelpful patterns and difficulties from the past. Sometimes, it's to have a guide to be alongside you as you journey deeper in self-discovery.

Your healing journey is unique. Take your time to explore. I'm here when you're ready.

Therapy and Counselling Services

Individual Psychotherapy

Individual therapy is focused on your unique situation and needs. Psychotherapy allows you to create lasting change through identifying and healing the root of your pain.

Psychotherapy Services

Services include therapy for trauma, anxiety, stress, worry, grief, loss, low self-worth, relationship issues, sadness, depression, codependency, reclaiming your voice and more.

Spiritual Psychotherapy

Spiritual Psychotherapy, also known as Transpersonal or Psychospiritual, views the human psyche as having a Soul as the center of identity along with a human ego.

Anxiety

Anxiety is a natural response to cues of threat or danger in one's internal or external environment. Anxiety is usually recognized through physical sensations like shallow breathing, thoughts like ruminating & scanning, emotions like worry and behaviours like avoiding. Although anxiety is a crucial part of the human instinctive system, there are times when it becomes dis-ordered and is recurring unnecessarily and lasting long after any threat is past.

HSP-Highly Sensitive

While shyness is a learned behaviour, high sensitivity is an innate trait found in about 20% of the population. HSPs are built more deeply, emotionally and mentally than most people. As a result, they have a heightened awareness of stimuli, are very observant, more aware than others of subtleties, can be more easily overwhelmed and experience anxiety. They often have a rich inner life, are very creative and have a deep level of empathy.

Caretaker/Over-giver

Has your being helpful and giving to others become unhealthy? Only when we have taken care of our own needs can we be unconditionally generous to others. Giving becomes dysfunctional when done from a place of expecting something in return. People who give too much are often the caretakers, rescuers, people pleasers, fixers, over-responsible ones. They usually give more than they receive and as a result feel walked over and neglected.

Depression

Depression darkens all aspects of life making things less enjoyable, less important and less worthwhile. It saps your energy, motivation, and ability to experience connection and meaning. You’re more impatient, quicker to anger and get frustrated, quicker to break down, and it takes you longer to bounce back from everything. Depression can be connected to unresolved grief, suppression of Self, and disconnection from the sacred vital life force within.

Codependency

Codependency is common and is an unhealthy attachment to another person. It shows up as emotionally destructive and dysfunctional relationships. Some signs of codependency are: getting your self worth from the other person, difficulty identifying and expressing your needs, compromising your values and integrity to avoid rejection and another's anger, staying in poor relationships too long, difficulty expressing differing viewpoints.

Awakening

Spiritual awakening, dark night of the soul, spiritual emergency. These times can be confusing, disorienting, feel like a huge void of darkness and be downright difficult. Yet, this is also the beautiful time of inner transformation. It is the Soul's wake up call, an attempt to get your attention to grow and evolve. Spiritual awakenings happen as a natural product of your Soul evolving, expanding, and maturing that is meant to help you live a more meaningful life.

Making space to understand & prioritize yourself

With a holistic approach to therapy, Michele incorporates evidence-based modalities with
a more current inclusive holistic view of humans as a whole being - Mind, Body and Soul.
Psychotherapy Collingwood, Ontario.

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To me, wholeness is the key to aliveness.
It is more than just physical vitality.
It is radiance, coming from being at one
with yourself and your experience.
Life then flows through you.

- RICHARD MOSS