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Still limping along in life with longstanding Depressive & Anxiety Illnesses due to medications not being enough? Read ON!
Still limping along in life with longstanding Depressive & Anxiety Illnesses due to medications not being enough? Read ON!

a) Lacking self worth
b) Seeing no future
c) Having no value
d) Hopelessness
e) Feeling Less than
e) Feeling Broken & Defeated
f) Low Energy
g) Low Moods
h) Being Unfixable
If any combination of these toxic feeling describe you, this recovery-oriented counseling program is for you.
In "Recovery" an individual discovers their empowering nature to stand tall in their life allowing them to lead it with greater meaning and purpose. This cultivation allows to one move beyond the current state of Illness-Living and instead move towards an empowering place within oneself where Person-Led Living becomes an ever growing reality, a very freeing experience. -Live Your Life-Not Your Diagnosis-

In our advanced recovery counseling practice, our mission is to empower individuals still struggling and languishing with depressive and anxiety issues, due to medications not being enough and lead them towards Owning One's Life Again. We focus on the healing benefits of "Brief Recovery Work" (BRW) to facilitate recovery from the hold and influence of the depressive and anxiety issues currently owning one life. In a stronger recovery position, the strength, grip, and influence of these mental issues lessens and diminishes, a very freeing experience. This powerful approach complements psychotherapy and peer work, or can be used on its own as the sole means to affect change.
In this brief taste of a BRW interview, the interviewee "K" has agreed to engage in this demonstration video using her experience with depression to initially offer her impressions on this style of practice. She chose her dog, named Petal, as a recovery driver that feeds her Soul for the better among others. In the BRW practice, the gateway to knowing one’s strengths, capacities, and sense of self is leveraged for making a recovery through the person's recovery drivers. This is how this recovery model in mental health works.

For recovery from anxiety & depressive related issues, this advanced recovery oriented practice awakens and empowers an individual through self discover of their own inner capacities and personal resources for the purpose of enabling a them to lead a person-led life as opposed to the present Illness-Led Life, a very freeing experience. As a result, the hold, grip and influence of one's mental health condition diminishes to a point where it leaves one in a strong recovery position with feeling more empowered to live the life desired compared to one's current life experience. A richer and freer life is lived as a result. Is this what you are looking for? If yes, contact us and DRIVE YOUR RECOVERY TO NEW HEIGHTS.
"Live Your Life ǀǀ Not Your Diagnosis"

Ali Burke, MSW, RSW, Psychotherapist, Certified BRW Specialist, Narrative Consultant to BRW.
Ali Burke is a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist with over 17 years experience, she currently has a private practice in Cambridge, Ontario. Her work is grounded in the theories of Narrative Therapy, which sees people as having many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them to change their relationship with problems in their lives.
Let our expertise be there for you in your time of need. "Live Your Life- Not
Your Diagnosis"

P.W. Pakeman, BRW, NLP, Narrative Therapy Trained, SSW Associate Degree, BRW Certified Specialist, Trainer and Lead Developer of BRW.
I am a Recovery Specialist in Mental Health with over 30 plus years of mental health experience holding such roles as a trauma counselor; first responder in mental health assisting both the police and community responding to people crisis; as a director of a 10-bed stabilization unit for homeless men experiencing major psychiatric illnesses; Peer Specialist in Mental Health and conducting recovery based groups & individual work within a psychiatric department of a major regional hospital. Furthermore, he has conducted numerous workshops on recovery in mental health for professionals and consumers including nutrition and its surprising role in making a personal recovery.
Let our expertise be there for you in your time of need. "Live Your Life- Not Your Diagnosis"
RECOVERY FROM MENTAL DISORDERS LECTURE SEGMENT BY DR. PATRICIA DEEGAN
LIVE YOUR LIFE, NOT YOUR DIAGNOSIS
TALK BY DR. PATRICIA DEEGAN
This Recovery Protocol Breakthrough provides an innovative and thought-provoking therapeutic counseling program. Unlike traditional approaches to mental health treatment, that can sometimes feel too clinical and detached from one’s personal experiences, Brief Recovery Work focuses on the unique attributes and strengths of the individual. Through new methods of discourse these strengths can be harnessed to reclaim one’s life and agency. This new approach to conceptualizing recovery is transformative, as it allows for new options and paths of healing. I recommend this program for those interested in taking an active more informed role in their mental health, and for those who work as mental health professionals.
-Katherine Lennox MSW RSW RP
Contact: (519) 239-8799 ǀ Practice @ 32 Grand Ave South, Cambridge, ON Canada
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