AIM For Better
Whether you are managing struggle, or maximizing success, understanding your personal psychology will empower you, embolden you, and help you achieve your greatness.
Improving and managing mental health
Develop skills and agency to take greater control of your life and goals
Enhance recovery from addiction and compulsion
Group learning and psychoeducation
Individual Counselling Support
Sometimes people need a dialogue partner. An active listener who can offer perspective and help make sense of a situation.
Sometimes people need a counsellor. Someone who can support the development of relevant skills and strategies.
Sometimes people need to go deeper. Encountering our past and our patterns can often be profoundly therapuetic.
Meeting needs through cognitive behaviour therapy, EMDR, prolonged exposure therapy, positive psychology and informed by internal family systems therapy.
Seminars and Group Education
There is so much we can learn about ourselves. Countless authors and thinkers have offered up significant insights and valuable advice on how to live effectively if not optimally.
Learning on our own might seem tedious or unrewarding. Joining a community of learners all seeking improvement may be fruitful both for knowledge and connection.
Connection is so important to optimal functioning. Embrace this opportunity to broaden your experience.
Family Support Through Recovery
Addiction impacts everyone. Recovery is as important to you as it is your loved one; maybe more important.
Recovery can be treacherous to navigate because shame and emotional unpredictability are part and parcel of addiction. There is great value in being informed: what to expect, how to set boundaries, resources and supports in the community, preserving your own mental health, and how to be supportive without enabling.
Book some time with family, friends and stakeholders to work together in support of your loved one.
Rich Luykenaar
CAP Registration 4189
I registered as a psychologist in 2014 and have worked in mental health and addiction since 2006. A decade of work in addiction recovery both in a treatment centre and 9 years in a public clinic shaped an orientation to wellness through positive psychology.
Experience and maturity in my practice have steered my toward helping people identify patterns and find self empowerment through encounters with early experiences. Difficult and adverse experiences, which nobody can escape, shape how we navigate life thereafter. The greatest joy in my practice is witnessing people making connections with their past, visibly unburdened.
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