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Alive Counselling
Alive Counselling is a platform of a team of therapists and counsellors providing various mental health services, including both online counselling as well as counselling in Kelowna, BC, Canada. Through these, the team strives to “educate, equip, and empower” their client. Their main goal revolves around understanding one’s “stuff”. The owner of Alive Counselling, Barb Egan, believes everyone has something going on in their lives that needs to be addressed and catered to before it can “pop up like weeds” and damage one’s quality of life. A former elite hockey player and coach, Barb turned to professional counselling after her own experience with a career-ending injury. She went through the counselling process from the other end, learning to challenge her negative self-talk as she worked to heal both physically and mentally. She now specializes in using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help others do the same.

Other than providing counselling in many specific areas such as depression, anxiety, and trauma, Alive Counselling promotes education through the Resources & Blog section on their website. Here, numerous articles are uploaded detailing different mental health problems, covering symptoms, some causes, coping mechanisms, and stories from individuals going through this…well…“stuff”. This includes Postpartum Depression, The Father Wound, The Mother Wound, and Setting Boundaries During the Holidays, to name a few. Alive Counselling takes part in a number of events to continue raising awareness as well.

Their website also provides a free Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS), so that clients can get some idea of where their mental health stands, and they can navigate the various services provided according to their needs.

Alive Counselling works in collaboration with various institutes, including the University of British Columbia (UBC). In addition, their services have been verified by Psychology Today, and they are a certified member of the Online Therapy Directory.

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Services
Alive counselling comes with many different services to meet your specific needs. One of them include counselling, which targets areas such as anxiety, stress, and depression, practical coping strategies, improving self-confidence, trauma, ptsd, and much more.

Another service they have is sports counselling, which helps athletes alleviate many unique struggles they go through that might not be understood by many people outside of that area. Sports counselling helps individuals with how to prepare for games, mental toughness and resilience, performance anxiety and managing nerves, emotional control and much more.

Alive counselling has coaching as well which targets personal/professional growth and development. The coaching helps to find your unique strengths and how to utilize them, team building and leadership enhancement tools, and help high achievers perform their best at all times.

They also include consulting for a number or prestigious corporations and organizations, as well as professional athletic teams.

=== Speaking Events === Alive counselling hosts regular speaking events and interactive workshops for corporates and groups. These events cover a variety of topics ranging from mental health, to motivation and stress management. Some notable events include:


 * Speaker with UBC President Dr. Santa J. Ono on Mental Health and University Students to provide counselling for university students
 * Host of Mental Health Minute on Kelowna radio stations
 * “What is Mental Health” within the Kelowna schools
 * Video Interview with Team USA Women’s Hockey Olympic Gold Medalist Brianna Decker
 * “Gratitude” events with Third Space Life Charity
 * “Stress Management Strategies” for corporations
 * Team Canada Olympic Gold Medalist Natalie Spooner’s Virtual World Wide Hockey Academy Speaker
 * “Performance, Pressure, & Identity” with Breakout West Music Conference & Festival for Professional Musicians
 * “Creating a Personalized Mental Workout” with BC Hockey
 * “Overcoming Anxiety & Stress” with Wildfire Women
 * “Healthy Body, Healthy Mind” with Aligned Chiropractic
 * “Mental Health Moments for Moms” for The House Church
 * “Quarantine Quarrels” for The House Church on Couples & Communication during COVID
 * How Athletes Can Stay Motivated During COVID with WHL Academy

Events can also be personalized according to unique requirements.