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Irene Yakovleva

M.C., RCC

Counselling Practice Website

Practice Information

My Approach

I believe that self-care is an essential part of daily life and critical for emotional balance. Understanding yourself, your needs, and your relationships is the pathway to reconnecting with yourself, creating more positive and nourishing relationships, and finding more joy in your daily life.

I focus on helping people reconnect with their authentic selves through self-awareness, self-development, self-acceptance, and self-respect. As part of this process, together, we’ll explore your early life experiences, your relationship patterns, and the ways your past and present experiences continue to influence your emotional wellbeing, your self-perception, and your daily life. Slowly, we will work together so that you create new, more positive and more relational experiences that allow you to create a more connected foundation for your life.

I work gently and at your own pace, guided by your individual goals and needs. Naturally curious and open, I welcome the exploration of your beliefs, including spiritual perspectives, in a non-judgmental and respectful space.

I use an integrative approach, drawing on evidence-based modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), as well as less conventional but equally meaningful tools such as dream work and metaphorical associative cards. These approaches can serve as a doorway into the deeper layers of your inner experience.

Each session is designed to offer clarity, insight, and a sense of emotional grounding, along with practical tools you can apply in your daily life at a pace that feels supportive and natural for you.

Training Completed

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Sexuality
  • Narcissistic Relationships, Emotional Abuse & Gaslighting: Treating and Empowering Survivors of Relational Trauma
  • Shame Certification Training: Integrative Somatic, Sensorimotor, Mindfulness, & Neurobiological Strategies to Transform Self-Loathing

Certifications

  • Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) – Level 1, Sue Johnson
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy for Traumatized Individuals: Shaping a New Sense of Self, Sue Johnson
  • Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuse: The Clinician’s Guide to the New Field of Traumatic Pathological Love Relationships, Mindsight Institute
  • Shame and the Disowned Self: Overcoming Internal Attachment Disorder, Janina Fisher
  • Treating Adult Clients of Emotionally Immature Parents: How Clients Can Reclaim Their Lives from the Toxic Legacy of Controlling, Rejecting or Self-Involved Parents, Mindsight Institute
  • Working with Somatic Components to Overcome Trauma Related Fears of Feeling Good, Janina Fisher

Client Fee (Individuals)

$165 per 60 minute session

Availability

 
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Areas of Practice

Caregiver Support
Parenting Issues
Grief and Loss - General
Life Transitions
Self-Esteem Issues
Dreams
Spirituality

Approaches Used

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
Brief Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Emotion Focused Therapy
Mindfulness approaches
Narrative Therapy
Online ∕ Telehealth ∕ Virtual Counselling
Shame Counselling & Therapy
Solution Focused Therapy
Spiritual Counselling

Other Languages Spoken

Russian