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.
Relevant Professional Training
All of the counsellors at Bodymind Counselling gratefully live and practice on the lands of Lekwungen peoples, the Songhees and Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.
