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sarah@leanincounselling.com
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Engaged, committed, passionate and confident leadership and counselling skills as demonstrated in areas of acute hospital and community health services. Skilled in Psychotherapy, Mental Health, Acute & General Medicine, Aging, Dementia Care, Palliative Care, Family & Systems Relationships, Conflict Resolution and LEAN Management. Focused on integrity management, building and maintaining trusting interpersonal relationships. Community and social services professional with a Master’s Degree focused in Social Work from Dalhousie University.

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Lean In Counselling & Consulting Inc.

To “Lean In” to discomfort, means to embrace the discomfort that paves the road to transforming the way you think and talk to yourself.

Sarah Pinsent
Clinical Therapist / Social Worker, BA, BSW, MSW, RSW

To “Lean In” to discomfort, means to embrace the discomfort that paves the road to transforming the way you think and talk to yourself. As you may have experienced, this pain interferes with your relationships, family, social and professional lives. When we learn to “Lean In” to the pain, distress and discomfort, we in turn, also “Lean In” to our joy.

With over 10 years of counselling experience, I take pride in the connection and meaningful relationships I build with my clients and their families. I value the mutual trust we develop and the personal growth and achievements that are shared. I embrace and learn from the people I work with who represent a broad scope of cultural, religious and sexual identities.

I have been given the privilege of meeting with persons facing palliative and life limiting illnesses. I provide counselling to persons and their families who are grieving and bereaved, as well as persons who are requesting support through a difficult life transition or acute stressor such as death, divorce, career change and/or retirement.

I am trained in and provide dialectical behaviour therapy for individuals who are experiencing difficulty regulating or expressing their emotions, have maladaptive behaviours, are experiencing suicidal ideations and/or self-harm. I offer counselling for persons who feel anxious and depressed.

I worked for several years with women and children living with domestic violence and who are abuse survivors. We can speak about moving beyond violence, developing future goals, reclaiming confidence and understanding any experiences of shame, fear, uncertainty and all other difficult circumstances and emotions that you may have endured.

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Counselling & Consulting Specialties
Areas of speciality: grief and bereavement, life and family transitions, acute stress, divorce, family conflict, mental health concerns such as: depression, anxiety, personality disorders, maladaptive behaviours, suicidal ideation and/or self-harm, domestic violence, abuse survivors, first responders and their families, care of the aging adult and dementia.
Grief
Grief
Grief is a strong, sometimes overwhelming emotion for people, regardless of whether their sadness stems from the loss of a loved one or from a terminal diagnosis they or someone they love have received.
Borderline Personality
Borderline Personality
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness that centers on the inability to manage emotions effectively. The disorder occurs in the context of relationships: sometimes all relationships are affected, sometimes only one. It usually begins during adolescence or early adulthood.
Life Transitions
Life Transitions
The concept of transition is defined by some as the psychological process that an individual goes through to come to terms with a new situation. Life transitions occur as a result of planned or unplanned events and changes that occur in your everyday life.
Connection and meaningful relationships
I take pride in the connection and meaningful relationships I build with my clients and their families. I value the mutual trust we develop and the personal growth and achievements that are shared.