Counselling therapy can be a powerful tool for improving mental health and well-being. If you're considering starting therapy, here are five ways it can benefit you: Improved communication skills: Counselling therapy can help you learn how to express your thoughts and feelings in a healthy, effective way. This can be particularly helpful for those ...
Counselling Legislation in BC (A Brief History)
Sheldon Bilsker, HT, RCC is the Director and founder of Orca Institute, Canada's longest running hypnotherapy school. You can contact him at 604-808-3703. Over the years many aspiring hypnotherapists and students have asked me about hypnotherapy legislation or lack of relating to their ability to practice in their location. This issue can be quite ...
The Healing Power of Belief (My healing journey)
Sheldon Bilsker, HT, RCC is the Director and founder of Orca Institute and the IACH. Orca Institute is Canada's longest-running and only Designated hypnotherapy school. You can contact him at 604-808-3703 In 1983 I was diagnosed as having Melanoma Carcinoma, a potentially lethal form of skin cancer. Needless to say, it came as a shock. It...
Counsellor Legislation in Ontario, Canada
Sheldon Bilsker, HT, RCC is the Director and founder of Orca Institute and the IACH. Orca Institute is Canada's longest-running and only Designated hypnotherapy school. You can contact him at 604-808-3703 In 2007 the Ontario government created a draft proposal called The Controlled Act of Psychotherapy. On December 30, 2017, the act was ...
Counselling Hypnotherapy Legislation in BC, Canada
Update: February 1st, 2022: Recently the Alberta government, after committing to announce legislation relating to counselling in Alberta, has decided not to put forward the proposed legislation for proclamation. The government has stated that they are moving in a different direction. As a result of the uncertainty in Alberta we will be f...
Neuroplasticity (Change your mind, change your reality)
Lisa Brown is a student at Orca Institute, Canada's Longest running hypnotherapy School A superhero movie recently trumpeted this message. A counselling hypnotherapist sat in the movie theatre all dinner plate eyes at the transformation of well, just EVERYTHING on the screen. I’m that hypnotherapist and I was watching that movie as a s...
Thoughts on Cancer
Serge King, Ph.D. is a Hawaain Shaman based in Hawaii. He is the author of many books including The Urban Shaman and Imagineering for Health. Contact Orca Institute at 604-808-3703. My younger brother died of cancer in his early thirties, and my mother died of complications involving cancer when she was in her eighties. And I have had the oppo...
Learning Ericksonian Hypnosis
Sheldon Bilsker, HT, RCC is the Director and founder of Orca Institute, Canada's longest running hypnotherapy school.You can contact him at 604-808-3703 Milton Erickson was an American psychiatrist and the founding president of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis born in 1901 and died in 1980. At 17 he was paralyzed by polio. This event start...
Counselling - Hypnotherapy Regulation in Canada (Video)
Sheldon Bilsker, HT, RCC is the Director and founder of Orca Institute and the IACH. Orca Institute is Canada's longest-running and only Designated hypnotherapy school.You can contact him at 604-808-3703 A current Overview of Counsellor Legislation in Canada. By IACH, and Orca Institute. This is a talk by Sheldon Bilsker, ...
Regulating Colleges (Counselling) in BC, Canada
Update: Recently the Alberta government, after committing to announce legislation relating to counselling in Alberta, has decided not to put forward the proposed legislation for proclamation. The government has stated that they are moving in a different direction. As a result of the uncertainty in Alberta we will be focusing on BC, as it is m...
Why We are Recommending that Our Students Join ACTA
Update: recently the Alberta government, after committing to announce legislation relating to counselling in Alberta, has decided not to put forward the proposed legislation for proclamation. The government has stated that they are moving in a different direction. As a result of the uncertainty in Alberta we will be focusing on BC, as it is mo...