About Practise

What is therapy?

In simple terms, therapy is a one-hour long session between a trained, experienced counsellor and a client where a client can speak openly about their lives. Overall, it is a professional space of psychological safety and confidentiality in which the client is constantly held in positive regard. The ongoing goal of therapy is for the client to consistently feel better after the hour is done.

Therapy is when a qualified counsellor helps someone get better internally. When someone arrives into therapy, they are usually in a state of distress or pain about something and are seeking healing from that pain. With the help of a good therapist, the client experiences a sort of gentle internal digging within the sessions, and so the therapy helps the person come out of that state of pain and into a state of internal ease and quiet.

As the pain eases, the person begins to understand that the pain that they were looking to quiet at the beginning of therapy is a door into their inner world. So, after a time the therapy becomes a means of clearing all the hurts inside that prevent us from experiencing greater intimacy in our relationships and an overall increased quality of life.

Why choose St. Nicholas?

Therapy can seem out of reach for many people, both emotionally and financially. Most of the time, traditional therapy can also seem out of reach for many to afford on an ongoing, weekly basis. At St. Nicholas Counselling, most inquiries are returning on the same day, and, unlike many other practices, services are a text, email or phone call away. As a client, you should not just feel that you pay for the individual one-hour sessions, but that being in a relationship with your therapist should afford you a right to contact them whenever you need them, especially during times of distress. Clients within this practice experience quick response times to their emotional and even administrative needs, and this is an important part of the therapy itself.

St. Nicholas Counselling was named after St. Nicholas because of how generous and charitable St. Nicholas was. Since its beginning, this practice has been founded upon the principle that everybody deserves to have therapy as a part of their lives. Simple in its approach, affordable in its pricing, and very giving in its time and resources, St. Nicholas Counselling offers quality, easy to understand therapy at an affordable rate. No one is ever turned away for any reason.

Serving Peterborough and Surrounding Area

With its office located in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, St. Nicholas Counselling is proud to serve the beautiful city of Peterborough and surrounding area. St. Nicholas Counselling has embedded itself within the local community, and has become part of the community of Mental Health Professionals serving the Greater Peterborough Area. Access to local resources such as the Peterborough Regional Health Centre, addictions and homeless clinics and programs, and a wide array of mental health professionals specializing in various areas of mental health can be made available to clients upon request.

Services Globally Accessible

Therapy sessions are often done over Zoom and so can be done from any part of the world. With clients from Canada to Greece to Saudi Arabia, St. Nicholas Counselling is proud to provide its services to areas all over the globe. Sessions can be done virtually over Zoom, and transactions can be done electronically with Paypal or e-transfer, therapy has never been easier to access all over the world.