Cheryl Grant

Cheryl has over 20 years of professional experience as a social worker providing counselling services. This includes her own personal, spiritual development, and therapeutic work.Cheryl works with the intention and goal of getting you to a place where you can move towards, get closer to, and ultimately achieve the life that you want. She currently provides virtual counselling sessions for Individuals (aged 13 years to adult), Couples, and Families. Cheryl also offers courses that promote personal, spiritual, and creative development through practices such as Journaling and Dreamwork.

Over the years, Cheryl's professional and personal path have dove-tailed and culminated into a blend of studies that have informed her therapeutic approach with spiritual, psychological and creative philosophies that include but are not limited to:
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
• Existential Therapy
• Jungian Analytical Psychology
• Dream work
• Shadow work
• Tarot
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Reiki Therapy

How Cheryl uses these approaches in therapy depends on what you are communicating that you are struggling with and looking for, what she senses and observes as themes, strengths and obstacles moving through your life, and which of the above as a blend of approaches resonates with you the most.

Cheryl prefers a client-centered approach that incorporates your wisdom, intuition, and needs vs. “therapist expertise”. You may be looking for guidance but you are the expert on who you are and what you need.

Cheryl helps to guide you in the process of uncovering and accessing that wisdom.

How she can help in your wellness journey

Cheryl has a blend of professional training with respect to mental, emotional, and spiritual health and wellness, and has been providing psychotherapeutic counselling in private practice for the past 13 years of her 20 plus year social work journey. Over the years, Cheryl has discovered, and continues to delve deeper into, spiritual development, working with Teachers to engage with the world from a more holistic, spiritual lens. Cheryl is most drawn to helping people discover and work towards self-actualization, becoming the best version of themselves, and moving towards the life they want to live: the life that is calling to them. Cheryl does this through a blend of traditional talk therapy and intuition, in which she is listening to, and holding the space for, you to unpack and lay out the stories, patterns, and desires of your life. Together, you look at where you are feeling stuck, what you keep bumping up against as obstacles, the stories that are self-limiting and need to be transformed, and the stories and dreams that are calling you towards the life you want to live and be in alignment with.

Cheryl draws upon her own intuition, the wisdom she hears in your stories, the synchronicity that shows up, and psychotherapeutic tools to reflect back certain connections between past patterns and stories that have shaped you, and the ones still running through your life that are getting in the way. Together, you unpack why those stories are there, why they are hard to let go of, how they show up in your relationships, and what can be done to move past inner and outer obstacles. Cheryl works with parts of the Self, archetypes, facilitates Shadow work, works with what moves through your inner world of dreams, and works with the guidance and wisdom that is reflected back to you through tarot, visualization, journaling and art therapy style exercises.

Cheryl also provides workshops on journaling, and on working with your dreams. Meet yourself on the page and move through the Dreaming to meet your Dream Self. Weave the wisdom of the worlds together by observing and engaging with what happens in both. In addition to workshops and individual sessions for counselling and dream work, Cheryl facilitates a monthly journaling group for those who have taken her main journaling course, and will be starting monthly dream sharing circles in the Fall of 2024. Take individual dream work to the next level by engaging in the energy of a dream sharing community.

Testimonials:

"If you have always wanted to explore the world of journaling for your mental health, but didn't know where to start, this is the perfect course for you. I was sceptical about joining the course at the beginning, wondering if it would be too spiritual for me (very outside my comfort zone), but Cheryl really made us all feel comfortable to go as deep into things as we wanted. The course not only provided us with new knowledge, but helped us all build journaling as a practice into our daily lives. I thoroughly enjoyed this course!" -Journaling: Write to the Center of Who You Are, February 2024 class participant (anonymous)
"I went into this course with the goal of getting back into the habit of writing/journaling because I missed it, but what I didn’t realize was that the course would be life changing. It ignited my creativity and allowed me to channel it in so many ways. I was feeling very stuck and like I couldn’t express myself, and now I feel like I have a lot of different tools at my disposal to do so. I learned how to become more in tune with myself and I learned things about myself through the exercises that I don’t think I would have otherwise." -Journaling: Write to the Center of Who You Are, February 2024 class participant (anonymous)

"Cheryl is understanding, positive and compassionate. She is the best counsellor I've had. She makes you think about how you can progress. Very validating and personable. Highly recommend!"- L.R. (Google review)

"I went into therapy apprehensive about my ability to be vulnerable with a “stranger” but that fear quickly dissolved after my first session. I felt instantly connected to Cheryl. Her patience, energy & compassion for humanity truly shines through - and you can feel that in your conversations. She takes the time to not only understand you but empathizes with your experiences, asks the deep questions & helps guide you into your light. Love Cherly"- Amanda A (Google review)

Services: 

• Counselling
• Personal Development workshops such as journaling and working with your dreams.

Location: Ottawa, Ontario

Services offered online/virtual.

Wellness dimensions

• Mental
• Emotional
• Spiritual
• Social
• Occupational