Registered Clinical Counsellor, Belinda Kissack

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CREATE THE LIFE YOU WANT! Counselling with Belinda Kissack M.A., C.C.C., R.C.C. Canadian Certified Counsellor and Registered Clinical Counsellor Thrive in Spite of Chronic Pain "“ Strengthen Relationships "“ Enjoy Parenting About Belinda Kissack Education - - - Other Training and Conferences Attended - - - - - - - - Associations I belong to - - - - - - Experience Prior to my counselling career I worked for many years in a large organization, partly as a Skills Training Manager in Human Resources responsible for hiring and training new recruits, and as a Laboratory Technician responsible for the quality of test results and training of testers working in five on-site laboratories. When I started my family, I decided to scale back my work to part-time contracting. The role paid well, but I realized that I wanted to learn more about how to help people in their personal lives, not just by providing them employment skills or offering them a job, but to help them with their daily struggles. After running my first marathon, which I had previously thought was impossible; I decided to tackle a lifelong dream which was to return to school to earn a Master of Arts degree. I chose to work toward a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology. I could have chosen many different degrees, but chose this one as it was most interesting to me, and most applicable to that particular stage in my life. I had several options when it came to schools and delivery systems. City University provided quality education by instructors who were also counsellors and the program afforded me the flexibility to study while the children were at school or in bed at night. The last few years were the toughest, managing course work, a thesis and a practicum. During my years of study, several topics became very interesting to me which is why I choose to focus on them now. They include, chronic pain and illness, relationship counselling, parenting struggles, and workplace difficulties. Chronic Pain and Illness After my first year of counselling courses, my mother was diagnosed and quickly died from ovarian and lung cancer. On a whim, I decided to do something different that my mother would encourage. I chose to study Clinical Hypnotherapy while still taking my university counselling courses. I was amazed at how often Hypnotherapy was cited in studies for chronic illnesses as being more helpful and longer lasting than medication alone. Later that year, I decided to take advantage of the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program Facilitators Training program offered through UVIC's Centre for Aging to learn more about this area. Many of the messages were consistent and the program emphasized the importance of goal setting and action planning. I chose to write my thesis on cancer pain and learned a lot about all types of pain. Since then, I have been asked by several organizations to discuss pain management issues and had the pleasure of sharing my thesis research. I am now in the process of revising my work on chronic pain to discuss specifically, how many counselling techniques are useful in chronic pain and disease.

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