Services
Welcome to a transformative journey towards clarity, relief, and joy. Hello, I’m Carrie McLlwain, a seasoned therapist and life coach offering coaching services and trauma counselling in Toronto and around the world. I offer a range of services designed to guide individuals, couples, and families toward a life filled with authenticity and purpose.
My approach and philosophy
At the core of my approach is warmth, openness, and authenticity. My goal is to create a kind and validating space where clients feel heard and understood. The results speak for themselves – effective, transformative, and long-lasting. My colloquial style ensures that complex concepts are communicated in a way that resonates with each individual. It's not just therapy; it's a partnership in personal growth and self-discovery.
My philosophy centers around helping individuals take the heaviness and uncertainty in their lives and transform it into clarity, relief, and joy. By waking up to the stories they tell themselves, clients can break free from patterns that keep them stuck in pain and confusion. Facing experiences and feelings head-on, without hiding, allows for deeper connections with oneself and others. Being one's true self is the key to living the best life possible.
Guiding clients on their journey to truth, I help them identify potholes that may knock them off course and provide the tools needed for course correction. The philosophy is not just about therapy; it's about a holistic transformation that allows individuals to live their best lives fully awake and centered in their truth.
Individual therapy
Embark on a profound exploration of self with individual therapy. This deeply personal journey allows individuals to dive into the roots of confusion, pain, and a lack of love. Through a tailored process, clients implement healthy and empowering ways to live a life of clarity, joy, and love. My compassionate guidance creates a safe space for self-discovery and healing, allowing individuals to navigate life's challenges with resilience and authenticity.
Family therapy
Navigate challenging family dynamics with a unique approach. Each family member has the opportunity to increase awareness of blocks hindering them. By examining intentions, roles, and patterns, the family can be reconstructed for safety, joy, and growth. Family therapy becomes a transformative journey for each member, contributing to the harmony of the whole. It's not just about resolving conflicts but creating a space for genuine connection and understanding within the family unit.
Couples counselling
Revitalize intimate relationships that may have lost their spark. Instead of traditional counselling, my approach provides individual space for partners to explore dynamics, resentments, and power dynamics. The goal is to help couples end the cycle of blame, see their power, and make healthy choices in all areas of their relationship.
I take the Conscious Uncoupling process and work with each partner in a way that helps them to uncouple from their patterns, ways of showing up, and unhelpful stories/beliefs from our old wounded parts that interfere with our ability to build the healthy, strong, connected relationships that we desire. This approach helps each individual be their best self in order to be a strong pillar to build the foundation of the couple.
5-Step Program: Conscious Uncoupling
Whether you are in the process of ending a relationship, struggling from unresolved grief from a former breakup, or contemplating ending a relationship, the end of a relationship can often shake our very sense of ourselves, our belief in love and our faith in our dreams for the future. We can feel lost, heartbroken, scared, bitter, resentful and angry. So often we do not see a way to feel happy again, however there is a way forward.
The Conscious Uncoupling program, developed by Katherine Woodward Thomas, offers a path to open your heart and create the love you've been looking for, empowering you to move beyond the pain and resentment of past relationships. This program is not merely about separation; it's about reclaiming personal power and building a foundation for a happier and more fulfilling life.
7-Step Program: Calling in "The One"
Finding deep happiness and fulfillment in intimate relationships is something that most of us desire and yet we can often feel dissatisfied and disappointed with our partner or defeated by love itself. It may seem like you continue to fall in love with the wrong person, that others can find romantic love but somehow you can't, or that the relationship you want and the life you desire is out of reach.
What if you were the one holding the key to unlock deep love in your life? What if through unconscious choices, you have been blocking the love you seek? With the help of the powerfully transformative Calling in "The One" program, developed by Katherine Woodward Thomas, we will explore the obstacles, the toxic energy, core beliefs and subtle ways you have been relating to yourself and others that have blocked love from taking root. There is a way to a new path where you awaken to the truth of your value, know your worthiness to love and be loved and access the power to create the life that you deeply desire.
Wellness retreats
Escape to small, intimate weekend wellness retreats in the picturesque Haliburton Highlands. These retreats offer a unique opportunity to develop clarity about the life you want to create. Through immersive experiences, participants take a deeper dive into understanding and overcoming obstacles that prevent them from living to their fullest selves. The retreats provide not just a break from routine but a space for self-reflection, personal growth, and a connection with like-minded individuals on a similar journey.
15-minute free consultation
Ready to embark on your journey towards a more fulfilling life? Book your free consultation and take the first step towards clarity, relief, and joy. I offer both online and phone sessions, providing flexibility to meet your needs. Discover the transformative power of therapy and coaching.