Natalie Goerner
- PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUPS & RETREATS -
About Me
We all have a story to tell and here is a little bit about mine...
I’ve struggled with people pleasing, perfectionism, and performance anxiety. I’ve experienced maladaptive self-soothing behaviours, difficult family dynamics (having a parent with a substance use problem), and experienced different types of grief; the loss of a parent, and anticipatory grief with an ill loved one. Over the last 10 years, I've worked immensely on emotional regulation and nervous system rehabilitation (since experiencing major loss and becoming a mother of two), in order to show up as my true self (not my trauma responses) in all my life's relationships.
I am learning more and more in my personal inner work and my work with clients that we all have multiple layers of joys and sorrows from our life's experiences, but that we have the capacity to hold it all; the light and the dark... and as humans, we are wired for healing through connection.
So, I believe, through the process of reconnection, as we tend to loose and forget and fall into the ego mind, we come back (over and over) and return to our true natures and reconnect inward with ourselves, with others, with a sense of community and this is what will help us to heal and grow in ways that are unimaginable.
Connect with Me
If you are interested in chatting to see if we are a good fit, email me at info@nataliegoerner.com
Education
2007-2008
McGill University
MSW, Masters of Social Work
Internship: Argyle Institute of Human Relations
Individual Psychotherapy sessions
Bereavement Support Group
2003- 2006
University of Windsor
BSW, Bachelors of Social Work
Internship: Hotel Dieu Grace Hospital - Inpatient Psychiatry Unit
My Qualifications
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MSW- Social Worker and Member of the Ordre des Travailleurs Sociaux et Thérapeutes Conjugaux et Familiaux du Quebec
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Psychotherapist Permit- Registered with the Ordre des Psychologues du Quebec
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Therapist - Trained by EMDRIA trainer/consultant - Phillippe Gauvreau, PhD
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MBCT (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy) Group Facilitator - McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Certification in Mind/Body Integration, Yoga for the Mind- Dr. Betsy Rippentrop
My Specialties
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Treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma, eating disorders, grief, stress, perinatal and postpartum anxiety and depression
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Treatment of traumatic events using EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
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Group sessions using MBCT (Mindfulness- Based Cognitive Therapy)