More about Rey

Rey Singh is a Registered Social Worker & Psychotherapist with a Master of Social Work honours degree from the University of Northern British Columbia. He has 18 years of practice experience in the field of community social work, addictions and counselling. He is widely regarded as a highly effective and skilled counsellor who helps his clients experience results. He is a Registered Clinical Supervisor, Board Certified Addictions Counsellor, and also carries a Certification in Indigenous Trauma. He is also certified as a Clinical Counselling Hypnotherapist. Rey is a seasoned and highly experienced mental health professional who has worked with various groups, individuals and families to achieve their healing and recovery. Rey Singh provides Trauma Responsive Psychotherapy to persons of all ages. He has gained this experience in working with traumatized children, adolescents, adults couples and families from all over Canada to help them recover from addictions and to help people with psychiatric diagnoses lead a high-quality way of living, Rey has also helped many people achieve their healing and heal their stressed or broken relationships. 

Rey has worked as a lead clinical social worker for the Province of Ontario, a Treatment Director at an addictions centre servicing First Nations Youth from across Canada, and as an Itinerant Counsellor in Alberta. Rey's primary focus in treatment is upon the development of client-centred therapeutic relationship where clients may acquire new skills to manage depression and anxiety, strategies and develop new patterns of behaving, feeling and thinking. The therapeutic relationship is one of trust and opens the doorway to explore, collaborate, co-create, and take steps towards meaningful change. Rey will help you and your family member achieve their mental health and relationship goals.

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Over the course of the past 18 years, Rey Singh has worked with individuals, couples and families, who have taken meaningful steps towards change in their lives.  He utilizes a number of treatment modalities such as  Solution-focused therapy and Brief-Narrative therapy, Indigenous healing methods, as well as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy to treat mental health diagnosis and addiction.  Rey Singh's exposure to both Western and Eastern Healing practices with insider experience and understanding of how spirituality assists the healing process further deepens the effectiveness of his approaches to healing and recovery.

Rey's understanding of trauma and resiliency informs his approach to practice. He has a strong understanding of the neurology of trauma and addiction and harnessing the mind to heal means utilizing therapy which encourages balancing and integration practices. By assisting those he works with, children, youth and adults alike he is able to teach skills to calm the anxieties, and methods to encourage the mind to process, order, and integrate new information resulting in health outcomes for his clients. Rey also works with individuals through moments of stress and anxiety by teaching skills to increase tolerance to stress using creative techniques-- guided imagery work, meditation and other mindfulness-based practices.  Rey is committed to working with individuals and families alike and is a strong believer of integrating community and family involvement in individual therapy when possible.

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