Naomi Kolinsky  |  Registered Clinical Counsellor

Naomi Kolinsky (M.Ed., RCC) a counsellor with a specialized focus on addictions counselling and trauma counselling for women and men in Vancouver, BC since 2005.

Naomi Kolinsky shares her time between private practice at Well Woman Counselling and her position as a clinical counsellor at Family Services of Greater Vancouver's Employee Assistance Program, where she assists individuals, couples, and families with concerns related to addictions, trauma, anxiety, and depression, self-esteem, stress management, sexual orientation, parenting, and couples/relationship concerns.

In the past, Naomi gained extensive experience as an addictions counsellor at Share Family and Community Services, where she provided counselling for issues related to addictions, trauma, and concurrent disorders. Naomi also teaches college-level courses in addictions counselling and provides clinical supervision services to graduate-level intern counsellors.

Specialized focus on addictions and trauma counselling:

• Addictions, including alcohol and drug use and misuse
• Food addiction, including binge eating and emotional eating
• Sex addiction and love addiction
• Concurrent disorders (i.e., an addiction with a mental health diagnosis)
• Childhood emotional, physical, and sexual abuse
• Trauma in women (PTSD, sexual assault, relationship violence)

Additional areas of interest:

• Anxiety and depression 
• Grief & loss
• Life and career transitions
• Parenting skills
• Personal growth (self-esteem, assertiveness, confidence, boundaries)
• Relationship and couples counselling (heterosexual and same-sex relationships)
• Sexual orientation, gender identity, LGBT positive counselling for individuals and couples
• Women's issues
• Clinical supervision to other mental health professionals (see below)

Counselling approach:

Naomi works from a heart-centered approach in which she guides, directs, and challenges you in a gentle and compassionate manner toward the core of your issues. She believes that you are the expert on your own life. Her aim is to help you connect with your own intuition and higher wisdom in order to bring about healing and empowerment.

Naomi believes that counselling can benefit you in the following ways:

• To develop healthier relationships with yourself and others
• To identify and change self-sabotaging patterns in your life
• To overcome addictions and maintain long term abstinence
• To learn healthier ways of coping with and managing uncomfortable feelings
• To be able to identify your needs, feelings, and thoughts, and assertively express them to others
• To develop more clarity regarding your ideal life path
• To become calmer, happier, more peaceful, and more accepting of yourself and others

Naomi uses a variety of effective, evidence-based therapies and techniques:

• Cognitive beahvioural (CBT)
• Emotion-focused therapy (EFT)
• Gestalt & body-centered
• Motivational interviewing (MI)
• Narrative therapy
• Sensorimotor psychotherapy
• Solution-focused therapy (SFT)

Clinical supervision:

Naomi helps counsellors and practicum students with the following clinical supervision areas:

• Skill development through review and feedback of audio taped sessions
• Case management for challenging clients or complex issues
• Support to develop your confidence and work through self-doubt
• Insightful feedback to help you more skillfully work with clients by identifying underlying themes and core issues necessary to create meaningful and deep change

Education:

• M.Ed., Counselling Psychology, University of British Columbia

Professional associations:

• Registered Clinical Counsellor, BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC)

Contact Naomi Kolinsky:

• Book an appointment with Naomi using the online scheduling system
• Email Naomi for more information