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I am pleased to welcome you to my website. My name is Peter Williamson and I have been a licensed psychologist
for the best part of three decades: Nearly 27 years in Buffalo, New York and also for 5 years since I moved to
Vancouver. I have an office location in downtown Vancouver, and offer flexible appointment hours.
If you choose to see me, you’ll find me well qualified and trained, experienced, warm, interested
and down-to-earth in my approaches.
In my practice over the years with thousands of clients, I have treated general psychological
problems of anxiety, depression, personality disorders and addictions as well as relationship and work
problems. My more specialized areas of focus have been marital and couples issues, people dealing with
chronic illness, especially diabetes and cardiac adjustment, and trauma recovery, particularly from early
life abuse.
My goal for clients is to attain healthy ways of living, with energy freed up for creativity and
vitality in the present, and without dragging burdensome energy consuming issues from the past. My goal for
couples includes the above, but also encompasses a deeper and more satisfying relationship with one's partner.
This would include effective communication and conflict resolution, mutual nurturing and cooperative
functioning in the day to day world, and achieving safe, very deep emotional connection at a heart to heart
level.
I notice that in the Lower Mainland there are therapists, counselors and emotional coaches of every
stripe. From people with almost no training, experience, or professional regulation, to those with a great
deal of each. From crystal, spiritual, colour analysts to psychoanalysts. So how do you find a therapist that
is suitable? (Please see my subsection, "
Finding a Therapist
" regarding this exploration.)
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Honouring the Inukshuk
Inukshuks, some as high as 25 feet and having stood sentinel possibly for thousands of years, have
been guideposts for Inuit in our north. Inukshuks have been indicators for survival, good hunting and places
of special or spiritual significance. Artist Ken Kirkby who has chronicled Inukshuks in his paintings, placed
a large mural of the northern landscapes in Ottawa’s parliamentary buildings. It featured a prominent
Inukshuk at its centre. He called it "Isumataq". Roughly translated as "an object or person in
whose presence wisdom might show itself".
The Inukshuk is a fitting symbol for therapy work. Going inward with compassion and courage to find
our true selves, and outward to pursue our best relations with partners and others, indeed requires a
situation that involves the presence of safety and wisdom.
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