Tania Suzuki, Registered Clinical Counsellor
Tania Suzuki, RCC (she/her)
AREAS OF FOCUS:
Anxiety and Depression
Newcomers, immigration, multi-cultural issues
Relationships
Boredom, burnout, lack of joy
Chronic pain
Medically unexplained symptoms
THERAPY MODALITIES:
AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
Somatic Therapies/ Eutony
Internal Family Systems (IFS)- Informed Therapy
ISTDP (Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy)
Explain Pain
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT WHEN WORKING WITH Tania
My approach as a counsellor is fundamentally collaborative. I aim to help you feel safer and stronger to face the difficulties in your life, so that they may become just a challenge, as opposed to a threat. I love helping clients to strengthen their emotional self-regulating capacities. In sessions, you will find me curious, thoughtful and kind.
I have done a lot of learning about certain parts of the human experience. But I understand that you are the only one who can tell me about you – and that whether you know it or not, you are the expert in you. I see therapy as a chance for us to combine our expertise to bring about meaningful change in your life.
tania’s EXPERIENCE & TRAINING
I have been working with body-mind approaches (from expressive dance to yoga and Eutony somatic practice) for the past 30+ years.
As part of this long journey, I trained in my home country of Brazil as a psychotherapist, qualifying in 2000. Because of my interest in the body-mind connection, I ended up involved in the field of chronic pain. This brought me to Canada, where I concluded a master’s degree in kinesiology, and studied yoga for chronic pain. I have extensive training in working with pain as a nervous system response, and I have worked in the pain program at CBI for the past 10 years. I have also taught many courses about this topic.
In addition, I have a lot of training in various experiential dynamic therapies, including AEDP and ISTDP. These are highly effective therapies and I use them to treat all sorts of different issues - from relationship difficulties, anxiety disorders to physical complaints, including chronic pain. I’m always happy to talk about what we are doing in therapy, and why!
ON A PERSONAL NOTEI am a lifelong learner and I love studying the human experience from different angles, from psychology, psychoanalysis and phenomenology, to anatomy and neuroscience. I truly love nerding around, even when I’m not at work.
In addition I love going on long bike rides, walking my 2 dogs, and hanging out with my family and friends. I am a mother to 2 amazing young adults, and that journey has taught me a great deal. My favourite de-stressors are dancing in the kitchen, and practicing Eutony somatic meditation.
FEESSessions with Tania are $180 per 50 minute session.
HOURSTania is available Tuesdays (3-8) and Fridays (8-3) out of our Quadra and McKenzie location. She also has availability for virtual appointments on Thursday mornings.
Relevant Professional Training
New Washington School of Psychiatry - 1st year of Core Training in ISTDP (Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy) -2023-2024 - with Jon Frederickson and others
IFS Institute - Internal Family Systems - Richard Schwartz
IFS Online Circle -- Apr-Sept/2022
IFS Stepping Stones- IFS Canada - Jan- Apr/2022Somatic intervention - Ricki Bernstein
Working with Grief and Loss somatically - 2021
Part 3- The Lost Piece: Reclaiming the Body after Abuse 2020
Part 2 - Attachment Wounds, Then and Now - 2020
Part 1- The Missing Piece: The Body in the Therapy Room 2020AEDP Institute - Level 3 completed in 2021
Transforming Resistance - Steve Shapiro - 10 months - 2021/2022
Various Advanced Skills Courses - 2020 - 2021
AEDP Essential Skills 1 - Ron Frederick 2020
AEDP Immersion training - Diana Fosha - NYC 2019Masters in Clinical Counselling - City University - 2017
Master's degree in Kinesiology -vUBC- Canada, 2013-2015
Multidisciplinary Pain Management Certificate - Medical School- University of Sao Paulo - 2011
Professional training in Eutony - Somatic Practice - Instituto Gerda Alexander Brazil - 2009- 2012
Professional training in Yoga - Faculty of Physical Education - FMU - SP- Brazil 2003-2004/ 2006-2007
All of the counsellors at Bodymind Counselling gratefully live and practice on the lands of Lekwungen peoples, the Songhees and Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.
