Welcome to A Life's Journey Counselling & Art Therapy

Are you satisfied with where you are going in life?

Could you use assistance with:

  • Expressing and managing your emotions in a healthy and effective manner?
  • Recognizing and working through anxiety?
  • Resources to self-regulate your nervous system?
  • Learning skills for relaxation and stress reduction?
  • Improving your relationships?
  • Setting healthy boundaries?
  • Recognizing your own areas of inner strength?
  • Achieving your greatest potential?
  • Setting realistic, specific, attainable, and measurable goals?
  • Working through and/or healing from traumatic experiences?
  • Improving your communication with others?
  • Improving your assertiveness skills?
  • Feeling more self-confident?
  • Challenging your unhealthy thoughts and changing them to healthy thoughts?
  • Gaining support in making healthy changes in your life?
  • Expressing your thoughts and feelings through art rather than with words?
The symbol chosen for A Life's Journey is the Inukshuk. The Inukshuk is a beacon. For travellers in Canada's North, an Inukshuk is a welcome sight. It is a guide for a "safe journey through life's travels". The traditional meaning of the Inukshuk is "Someone was here" or "You are on the right path". Today, the Inukshuk has been adopted as a symbol to remind us of our dependence on each other and the value of strong relationships.

Our interpretation of the Inukshuk is, "May your journey be safe". There are many types of Inukshuks that all vary in shape and size, just as there are so many types of people with diverse life challenges. Helen believes that the symbolism of the Inukshuk in regard to travel and journey fits with the challenges, choices and changes she has made in her own life. Thus, the Inukshuk seems to be a fitting symbol for mental health and personal wellbeing.
A Lifes Journey Counselling and Art Therapy
Helen Stirling has a Master's degree in Social Work, a post-graduate/advanced diploma in Art Therapy and a Bachelor of Arts and Science degree.
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Art therapy offers clients an opportunity to explore issues and concerns through a creative process that does not rely on words.
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders.
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Helen Stirling

Helen holds certificates in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Trauma Therapy, Choice Theory and Reality Therapy.

Helen is a Registered Social Worker with the Saskatchewan Association of Social Workers (SASW) and is on the SASW Private Practice Registry. She is a Registered member of the Canadian Art Therapy Association (CATA), a Professional Member with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA), and a professional member of EMDR Canada and a certified member of EMDRIA (EMDR International Association).

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A Life's Journey Counselling & Art Therapy:

"Assisting you on your journey of discovery through life; enhancing your inner strength and achieving your greatest potential."

We have a dream inside ourselves,
A gift to us at birth,
To guide us and protect us,
On our journey on this earth.

We all have something special,
Each one of us unique,
You have to find the courage,
To find the peace you seek.

So dream your dream and live your dream,
Don't be afraid to try,
Just take your soul by the hand,
And let your spirit fly.

Maureen Weiner
Australian Poet

We respectfully acknowledge that we live on Treaty 6 Territory that encompasses the lands of the Cree, Dakota, Nakota, Saulteaux and the homeland of the Métis Nation. We pay our respects to the First Nations and Métis ancestors and are dedicated on ensuring that the spirit of Reconciliation and Treaty 6 are honoured and respected through reaffirming our relationship with one other.

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Testimonials From Current & Previous Clients


"A Life's Journey Counselling has been my 'Road to Recovery'. Helen has given me the tools in which to grow and when I stumble, she picks me up and encourages me to laugh and try again! I can't imagine going through life without her support." C.M.S. - Saskatoon
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