Scott Kouri Counselling and Psychotherapy

08/06/2022

We are proud to be offering affordable counselling options at our intern clinic.

An important value of Your Path Counselling is to help provide affordable counselling services to anyone in BC who needs it. To achieve this goal, Your Path Counselling offers an internship to selected applicants enrolled in a masters of counselling, social work, or child and youth care program.

04/06/2020

As fathers, we are being asked to stay home, slow down, work less, and face the possibility that our jobs will not be there when we return. We are being asked to spend much more time with our children, which can be incredible, but may also be harder than we expected. Some of us are away from our children for an indefinite amount of time. Being a father today brings real challenges and opportunities. We will all experience those differently and it is important that we talk about it and support one another.
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For fathers who have spent much of our lives working to provide for our children or fighting to protect them, we might feel powerless. Powerless in a huge financial system that is hard to understand, powerless against an enemy against which our best defence is soap and water. We want to continue to provide and protect, but it is not exactly clear how.
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If the changes in work and parenting weren’t enough, we also face the reality that our fathers, if they are still with us, are vulnerable and may pass before this is all over. This can bring up strong memories and feelings in us. Helping us to see, perhaps, what we didn’t get enough of in our own childhoods or, perhaps, what we got too much of. Reflecting on our own experiences of being fathered can give us a point of reflection on our own way of being a father.
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Turning to our children, we can learn to let them lead. Those little experts in play. They might help us reconnect with that playful part of ourselves. Our own childlike tendencies. Finding peace in safe touch. Learning to be gentle. To read a story before bed or teach an older child a skill or craft. But it is also possible for us to get frustrated and act in ways that go against our best selves. The stress and pressures of today can be hard to deal with if we don’t have some time and space of our own.
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This is a real opportunity to explore parts of ourselves that have been in the shadows of non-stop work and the everyday fight to survive and keep things together. Support is here for you if you want it. You are not alone in this. I work with individual fathers and host online groups. Send me a message today and we can talk.

03/25/2020

Needless to say, we are living in dark times. With the coronavirus spreading across the globe, economies collapsing, and climate change continuing to ravage onwards, the external world is as turbulent as ever. Real action is needed, by all of us, yet it also seems hard for some of us to figure out what our role is, what we really have to offer.
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Once we have done what we can in the external world to care for ourselves and others, we have the opportunity to turn inwards and explore our unique gifts and resources. The very gifts that will help us thrive in the most difficulty of situations and allow us to make meaningful contributions to our families and communities in the days, months, and years ahead.
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Deep within all of us, there is a world of nearly infinite capacity. One that we rarely turn to intentionally. This is the inner world, the world of dreams, the body, intuition, and the world of the deep past and distant future. It is a world that is uniquely our own, yet also connects us intimately with each other and every living being on the planet.
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The initial movement towards the inner world can be challenging. We often confront anxiety in the face of the unknown, we fret about not knowing how to do it or how to do it right, we encounter parts of ourselves that we have neglected or fled in the past. This part of the journey can be facilitated by a guide who has been here before.
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By working past the anxiety and confronting what we have sought to previously avoid, we come face to face with our emotional life, parts of ourselves that we disconnected with long ago, and our true values, goals, and gifts. Our work then becomes integrating these lost parts of ourselves into our well-defined personality.
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While it might feel that challenging external circumstances require us to do something, it is often by taking pause and going inward that we find the right course of action. Challenging times also create openings for something new to happen, something new to come forth. By turning towards our inner life in dark times, we explore what our real gifts are and how we might make a meaningful and lasting contribution in our own lives and the lives of others.

03/24/2020

Personal growth often times means facing our difficulties and learning from them. Sometimes this means overcoming obstacles through practical and goal oriented work, and sometimes this means sitting with our challenges and making sense of them in the broader unfolding of our lives. In most cases, growth, happiness and a sense of freedom come with a more full engagement in our own lives.
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While the early stages of counselling generally focus on reducing negative symptoms and taking incremental steps towards our goals, eventually we can learn how our challenges can be turned into unique strengths. My experience has been that through sustained counselling work, meaning, growth, and learning can come from a deep examination of, and a new relationship to, the things that cause us most difficulty.
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I provide short term counselling and longer term psychotherapy in Victoria, B.C. with many specialized services. You will find a private, safe, and confidential space to address your challenges and improve your life. I believe each person is on their own path to healing and growth. I provide a contained space in which your work of self-discover, change, and growth can take place. My role is to support you in achieving the goals you have for yourself.

01/07/2017

http://www.scottkouri.com/

01/07/2017

Understanding anxiety is the first step in receiving help or helping someone else. I provide short term counselling and long-term psychotherapy in Victoria BC. I work with adults, youth, and couples and offer a free consultation to see if working together is right for you. Please email me at scott.kouri@gmail.com or call 778-584-0583. It is possible to turn challenges into unique strengths.