Services offered by Toronto counsellor and coach Beth Mares
Do you answer yes to any of these questions?
Are job stress and overwork interfering with your relationships, recreation or health?
Is stress at home interfering with your work?
Are people less knowledgeable and talented than you getting more recognition than you are?
Or are you bogged down in a job that does not really interest you?
Are you being taken advantage of, or finding yourself at the mercy of somebody's personal agenda?
Does your career history suggest that you might have unconscious limiting beliefs, for example, that you will not be liked if you are too successful?
Have you been unable to implement decisions made at stress management or assertiveness workshops?
If so, here is the good news: Beth Mares teaches the things they didn't teach you at University--the personal and interpersonal skills that are crucial in to-day's workplace as never before. She will also refer you to a hands-on expert in corporate politics if required. Which of the following are relevant for you?
Career
Building
Help with identifying roadblocks to your career and making
a plan to remove or bypass them, and follow-up help with the implementation as required.
Personal Development
Overcoming limiting beliefs, lack of confidence,
ambivalence, thought patterns that cause anxiety, or other internal obstacles to
success
Developing personal qualities and/or learning interpersonal skills that are important in your chosen field, e.g., dealing with difficult people.
Maintaining
High Performance
Pinpointing and handling the stressors in your life
Managing your time and energy
Using your support system (or building one) to maintain your resilience and equanimity
Taking control of stress-related health problems such as insomnia, hypertension, weight gain or loss, stress headaches, unwanted habits, drinking too much, etc.
Emergency Situations
If you are under severe stress, unable to make a crucial
decision, or in shock and unable to function in your usual way, every effort will be made
to arrange an expedited appointment. [In the case of a psychiatric emergency such as a
fear that you might kill yourself or someone else, go to a hospital emergency department
and get the psychiatric emergency dealt with first.]
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Looking for a new career? The best research tools I have seen are at
www.jobfutures.ca, a federal government
site which attempts to give statistics about earnings and current and expected
future availability of jobs. Be careful, though. They lump together jobs that
though similar, in terms of the government's sorting criteria, may have vastly
different unemployment and underemployment rates.--Beth
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Beth Mares does telephone counselling across Canada
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Telephone counselling--job stress Psychotherapy and job stress counselling Toronto--counsellor Beth Mares
Beth Mares, Clinical Member, Ontario Society of Psychotherapists, serving The Beaches, downtown Toronto & Scarborough
Beth Mares Counselling, Rosedale Medical Building,
Suite 605, 600 Sherbourne St., Toronto M4X 1W4
Voice mailbox: 416-699-5515
beth@sympatico.ca
Copyright © 1998 Beth Mares revised 2001
Codependency (over-involvement) and emotional abuse do not just happen at home. I have been counselling people for these problems at work !
One reason that this has been possible is that, at least in the city, there has been a decline in the importance of traditional social groups such as the family and the neighbourhood. The workplace is for many their main community, and for some the main source of their self-esteem. This raises the emotional stakes--and even in some cases makes people more dependent for their survival on their own paycheques. Women, who are generally still being socialized to be less assertive than men, are much less financially dependent on husbands and fathers, but correspondingly more so on their jobs.
Survival is a powerful motivator. When people believe that their survival is at stake, they will put up with a lot. The alcoholic's wife with small children and no job opportunities; the non-English-speaking immigrant in the sweat shop. Often people will act the same way even when the belief that their survival requires maintaining an abusive relationship is irrational. Someone stuck in a codependent pattern, clinging to a bad situation, is not aware of his or her options.
Beth's downtown Toronto office address:
Beth Mares Counselling,
Rosedale Medical Building,
Suite 605, 600 Sherbourne St., Toronto ON M4X 1W4
East office address:
Beth Mares Counselling
294 Main Street/ Danforth,
Toronto, ON M4C 4X5
Telephone: 416-699-5515
Please use email, making sure that the word counselling appears in the subject line to ensure that your email is not mistaken for spam
beth@sympatico.ca