JG Gillis Counselling

  I've heard it said that a diamond is still a diamond even if you find it in a pigsty. Well, I can't say that the past week has been a pigsty week, but it's been pretty crappy (the whole family has COVID-19). However, news I've been waiting for has finally arrived: I passed my qualifying exam for the CCTPEI (College of Counselling Therapists of PEI) and the subsequent jurisprudence exam. Then, I received an email from the CCTPEI welcoming me to the College, and so I am a Counselling Therapist! Just like that! These are gates through which I hope never to have to pass again! As long as I keep my membership and education current, I won't have to! And they also mean that I can offer my services to more people and have those services covered by more health insurance companies. Implied in the title of Counselling Therapist is the word "registered" - which means automatic recognition by the provincial (and in some cases, federal) government as a provider of cou

  They sleep. Dormant beneath the cold ground, beneath the snow and ice, the hardy crocus sleep, awaiting the first signs of spring: the sunlight's increasing duration, the softening of the maple's skin, the increasing temperatures, the melting, the run-off, the smells of decomposed grass and leaves.  The crocus bulbs wait beneath the earth, held in suspended animation until the first signs of life return to the land. In PEI, these come in April, no matter what the calendar says is the first day of spring. In warmer climates, they arrive in February. Here, winter is long and it can be harsh. However, these little cloves of crocus are not destroyed. They are one of the harbingers of hope that warmer times will return. Others are the return of the female mourning doves, which sends the males into bursts of billing and cooing. And the last - the very last - is the appearance of the robins on OUR lawn, the last to get these rare beasts because the neighbourhood (outdoor) cats use o

  What an ordeal the last few hours has been! First I discover that my WordPress site at judygilliscounselling.wordpress.com is inaccessible to me, then I discover that I cannot report this fact to them without logging into my wordpress account, which I cannot do. Anyway, you'll note some of my archived information in my previous post. :) Since the last time I posted, in the summer of this year, much has changed and I wanted to update my readers, if they ever find me (LOL).  I'm now almost a year into private practice. I wrote my entrance exam to the PEI College of Counselling Therapists on October 27, 2022, and I am awaiting the results. Passing the exam means that I will be able to become a member of the College (like the College of Physicians and Surgeons, only for Master's level counsellors!) and use the title, "Counselling Therapist." It also means that more health insurance companies would be covering my services for those with such plans. So if all goes wel

 Hello folks, I hope you can find me here because my Wordpress blog - although still visible - is inaccessible to be due to some foul-up with my logon credentials (an email address, used in for my login, that has been deleted at the source, through no fault of my own!!)  Judy Gillis – Counsellor "Every man is my teacher in that I may learn something from him." – Donne Skip to content Home About About my counselling Terms and conditions Obeying my body Jul 6 I mentioned in my last post that I took a part-time job to augment my cash flow situation. I enjoyed the training, a LOT. I learned so much! And I met some amazing people! However, once I started actually DOING the job, I noticed that my body wasn’t cooperating with me. The days when I was to work, I would have diarrhea, and my stomach would feel like it was in knots. I had headaches and muscle ache