Josh Paulton, MC RCC BA Hons CHt is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapist (EMDR), and Clinical Hypnotherapist. Josh works with people who have life challenges and mental health issues. He works to heal and process mental health issues and trauma and to make significant improvement in individual lives. He strongly believes in the ability to overcome challenges, heal deeply, and thrive in life.


Clinical Counselling


      Josh helps people reach their personal, life, and mental health goals with kindness, genuine compassion, and openness. As a counsellor, he honours people's experiences and goals for therapy, and collaboratively works together to achieve the best results possible.

Josh works in client-centred and trauma-informed talk therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), mindfulness, clinical hypnosis, and somatic techniques.

He works with people who have anxiety, helping them to live their lives with more control, fulfillment, and relaxation. He helps to provide an understanding of how the nervous system operates and how anxiety can affect an individual. He then tries to provide psychological skills to cope with anxiety.

Josh also works with clients who have illnesses, injuries, and chronic pain—providing personalized treatments and practical self-management skills.

His research focus is practical management of the psychological and emotional impacts of chronic pain and digestive diseases, including Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).


Specializations

Josh works with people going through many life issues, and has also specialized in the following areas.

Anxiety
Depression and Low Mood
Emotional Regulation
OCD
Chronic Pain and Vertigo
Car Accidents
School, Career, and Business
IBS, IBD, and Gastrointestinal Issues
Trauma
Spiritual Abilities and Intuition
Clinical Hypnotherapy
Clinical Mental Health Issues
Clinical Supervision
About

Josh Paulton, RCC MC BA Hons. CHt is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellor, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapist, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Clinical Supervisor.

Josh has completed the following education and trainings.

○ Master of Counselling, Bachelors of Arts Honours Psychology
○ Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Basic Training
○ Brief Action Planning, Centre for Collaboration, Motivation, and Innovation
○ Changeways Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression
○ San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety
○ Pain Foundations Course Series, Pain BC
○ TransCare BC Mentorship Call
○ Recovery Centred Clinical System (RCCS), Fraser Health Authority
○ ReAct Adult Guardianship Protection, Fraser Health Authority
○ Self Management Strategies for Chronic Conditions, Fraser Health Authority
○ Clnical Smoking Cessation for Healthcare Professionals, Fraser Health Authority
○ Sensory Interventions, Fraser Health Authority
○ Trauma & Resiliency Informed Practice, Fraser Health Authority
○ Violence Prevention and Gender-Based Violence, Fraser Health Authority
○ Clinical Hypnosis, BC Society of Clinical Hypnotherapy
○ Emotional Freedom Technique, BC Society of Clinical Hypnotherapy
○ Holotropic Breathwork, Stanislav Grof
○ Remote Viewing, Hawaii Remote Viewing Guild
○ ESP through Forms of Hypnosis, Dr. Richard Alan Miller
○ Unconscious Exploration, Pain Control, and IBS Treatment, D. Corydon Hammond, BC Clinical Hypnosis Society
○ Cannabis Education for Health Care Providers, UBC Continuing Professional Development
○ Gender-Affirming Primary Care, UBC Continuing Professional Development
○ 90/90/90 International HIV Treatment as Prevention, United Nations
○ More than 150 Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) classes


Josh makes guided mindfulness meditation audio sessions with VICA Studio. Audio sessions are used for relaxation, falling asleep, and daily performance.





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