RELEASING THE PAIN AT THE SOURCE
CENTRAL FOCUS
Creating a safe haven alliance between my clients and myself that is effective and healing, is crucially important to me. Whatever your struggle, I focus on bringing you freedom and hope. Our professional relationship begins with me respecting your dignity and giving you space to be yourself as you and I work to unravel your suffering. My intention is to be with you as companion and a guide, to attain the release of pain, frustration, and confusion that has held you, to free you into health, and assist you to find restoration of your soul.
SPECIALIZATIONS
Severe interpersonal conflict can damage and change us deeply. After the harm, we are not the same as we were before. While what happened cannot be changed, how we experience it can.
eg: ACEs; PTSD; C-PTSD; Dissociation
TRAUMA & ABUSE
eg ADHD; Autism; ACEs; Personality Disorders
IDENTITY DISRUPTIONS
Thoughts and emotions can become disorganized. Regardless of the reason, it can result in identity disruptions. Your stories can be rewritten to how you want it written.
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DISORDERS OF THINKING & EMOTIONS
eg: Anxiety; Depression; Grief; OCD; Addictions
All are paralyzing poisons to our being, all intent on reducing us to nothing. You may now find you are bound to any one of them. You can be set free.
Couples, Marriages, Family's
RELATIONSHIPS
Connecting, in a healthy manner is as important to life as sanity. If you are struggling, let us help you make what is wrong, right.
PROBLEM SOLVING
Whether you're deciding to stay or go, enter a relationship, or chart the course for your future, effective problem-solving can provide the clarity and confidence you need. Let me guide you forward and master this essential skill!
FARM-LIFE / AGRICULTURE
Develop a unified vision and a fulfilling life for all involved.
PERSPECTIVE & APPLICATION
Normal, healthy thoughts and emotions, as well as disordered ones, fundamentally follow consistent patterns. Learn about the WHO, WHAT, and WHY you and others are the way you are.
WHO AM I
I am a Provisional Psychologist registered through the College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP) for and in Alberta, and a Registered Clinical Counsellor through the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC) also operating in other Canadian provinces.
My approach to therapy is to act delicately towards the problems my clients are identifying, and to thoughtfully and considerately moving forward in release them from the emotional pain and confusion that is holding them. I do this by centering on what knowledge and understanding may be either missing or faulty, finding where the problems began, and then negating them.
While I believe my clients are looking to get past what holds and hurts them, they are also looking for WHY. Why did this happen, why did I react this way? Answers can and become apparent, and when this happens, I stand along side my clients to help them absorb and assimilate a this "new" reality, and help them dwell in that reality, in balance, peace and right-mindedness. This process not only helps them get past what holds and hurts, but it answers many of their questions too. To be able to do this processing effectively, I practice a multi-modal approach to therapy, incorporating therapies such as Narrative, EFT, CBT, ACT, and IFS, to name just a few.
Daniel Klassen
Registrations
Provisional Psychologist 2024 CAP P7619
Registered Clinical Counsellor 2024 BCACC #19147
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Certifications
Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional 2024 PESI Certification #802324
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Level 2 (CCTP-II) 2023 PESI Certification #450586
​Certified Personality Disorder Treatment Provider (C-PD) 2024 & 2022 PESI Certification #285-68375
Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist (CAGCS) 2023 PESI Certification #285-87773
​ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP) 2022 PESI Certification #285-62116
​Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist (ASDCS) 2022 PESI Certification #285-62114
​Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional (CSTIP) 2023 PESI (Confirm through PESI)
​Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT) 2022 PESI Certification #285-62262
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MY MOTIVATION
Having personally experienced overwhelming emotional pain and psychological suffering throughout my life beginning in early youth, I understand what it feels like to be in, and have a life of turmoil. I also know the heartbreak of watching loved ones struggle, their lives slipping away without the support they so desperately need. In my journey to health, someone extended a helping hand to me, and I found the strength to accept it. Now, it is my heartfelt mission to be that source of support for you. This is not just my profession—it is the work that truly fulfills my heart and reflects my deepest purpose in life.
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WHAT I LOOK FOR THAT LEADS TO HEALING - A PANG
Dictionary Description of Pang:
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a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing: a pang of remorse; a pang of desire.
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a sudden, brief, sharp pain or physical sensation; spasm: hunger pangs. (Dictionary.com)
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A Pang is a painful Sting.
Seeing my client experience a Pang in front of me when dealing with what hurts them, ques me in that here, in this immediate area, is the basis of the suffering. The pang identifies the target that needs to be addressed, to treat, even to nullify the mental and emotional pain that is besetting them. Rather than avoiding the pain, the pang is the entry point where I can begin to dismantle the structure and supporting network that is this spasm causing the pain. The pang is a truthful and reliable proclaimer that a wrong has occurred, is "sitting" here, and it is the soul of the individual that is crying out "Please help me, I need help!"
In the pang are all the details of the offense against my client for that hurt. The story of that hurt needs unraveling, it is the pang that holds the hurt in place, and the sufferer simply is unable to do that by themselves. It is in relationship we are hurt; it is in relationship we are made well again.