Pauline Goh - My Approach

Pauline Goh, MA, RCC, CCC
Registered Clinical Counsellor
Canadian Certified Counsellor 

 

 

My philosophy is to accompany clients on their personal journey in a spirit of trust, respect and spaciousness. My aim is to help clients to connect with their greatest potential to face challenges and to achieve higher qualities of life and being, whether our work together involves brief or depth therapy.

Our work could incorporate goals such as attaining healthy ways of coping and communication, accessing inner and outer resources, gaining awareness about negative and repetitive patterns, cultivating presence and mindfulness, and achieving insight and understanding.

Having spent many years gaining life and business work experience in different parts of the world, my work is informed by a first-hand experiential understanding of immigration issues, corporate culture, and challenges surrounding career and workplace dynamics. For this reason, I am able to contribute greatly to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) clients. I also have a keen interest in working with First Nations populations and clients dealing with multicultural and cross-cultural issues as well as life transition challenges including birth, death, parenthood, and mid-life crisis.

In my work, I combine a variety of therapeutic orientations including east-west approaches, cognitive/behavioral, transpersonal, psychodynamic, humanistic, relational, and gestalt, and will draw on relevant approaches depending on the needs of my clients.

Informed by my own healing journey guided by psychotherapists, I believe that we are more likely to change and move forward if we tap into our implicit body-mind knowing rather than talking off the top of our head. I like to welcome the body’s felt sense, as well as visualization, spiritual and creative energy in my work with clients. In terms of transpersonal psychology, I incorporate my own unique non-judgmental and expansive orientation to spirituality and religion, grounded by an openness and curiosity about diverse cultures, practices, resources and ways of knowing.

Lastly, I have a keen interest in integrating eastern approaches (such as Taoist and Buddhist philosophies) with western psychology, as well as in healing processes which address the bridging of polarities such as yin and yang, family/group and the individual, positive and negative, masculine and feminine, light and shadow.