Working With Me

Hi, I'm Angela Poch RPC

TEAM-CBT Level 5 Master Trainer, Certified Life Coach and Registered Professional Counsellor

I use a compassionate, structured approach to help people move forward when they feel stuck by painful emotions, limiting beliefs, negative thoughts, procrastination or difficult life circumstances. My role is to help you develop tools for meaningful and lasting change as one peer to another.

I currently offering mental health coaching worldwide. I do not provide psychotherapy, mental-health diagnosis or treatment for trauma or mental-health disorders.

*RPC = Registered Professional Counsellor with the Canadian Professional Counsellors Association.

Am I Right for You?

Let me start with the reasons you might not want to work with me.

I am task-oriented and solution-focused, which may not be a good fit for those wanting a slower, less structured approach. I also have fibromyalgia. I can go for long stretches then experience an unexpected flare-up that requires me to reschedule with little notice.

I ask clients to spend 5 to 30 minutes on homework three to seven times per week. This might include reading or listening to a book, completing worksheets, practising new behaviours, or completing exercises related to your goals.

Some clients make substantial progress during the first few sessions, but lasting change usually requires continued practice. Setbacks are normal, which is why continued work on your part between sessions is an important.

Lastly, I do not offer traditional talk therapy or long term weekly support. My goal is to help you outgrow me by building skills for responding to painful emotions, limiting thoughts and self-defeating beliefs wherever they come from. However, we all have relapses and my door is always open to previous clients who need a tune-up!

My services are not appropriate for anyone experiencing active suicidal thoughts, an intention to harm themselves or someone else, severe impairment, in an actively unsafe situation, or symptoms requiring clinical assessment or treatment such as, but not limited to, addictions or eating-disorders.

If you are unsure whether my is appropriate, we can discuss this during the consultation. If your needs fall outside my scope of practice, I will recommend that you seek support from an appropriately qualified healthcare or mental-health professional. Here are some resources:

feelinggoodinstitute.com (USA/Canada)
abide.network (SDA)
TEAM International Directory (global list)

Still here? Great. Let’s talk about what working with me is like, or you can explore more about who I am here.

ATTENTION

I may have to reschedule without much warning.

Due to living in a remote location with random power/internet outages, and having fibromyalgia.

What Working With Me Is Like

My approach is rooted in TEAM-CBT, a deep, practical approach that draws upon numerous change methods—with a little humour when appropriate. One of its central principles is that our thoughts and beliefs strongly influence how we feel and behave. In coaching, I use TEAM and other cognitive principles for education, guided self-reflection, skills development and lasting change—not for clinical assessment, diagnosis or treatment. Learn more about TEAM here.

I offer 105-minute sessions for $400 CAD (25% and 50% discounts are available; see the booking section on the contact page), two to three times per month.

If you want a stronger jump-start, I offer a 165-minute mini-intensive for $550 CAD.

Financial limitations? I occasionally offer a free one-time session if a mini-intensive is a good match. If you would like to be considered, submit the screening form before our 20-minute consultation.

Who My Approach Works Best For

You want practical tools for negative thoughts and painful emotions.
You want help with procrastination, forming good habits, or developing healthy relationships.
You’re reading or listening to Dr. David Burns’ work and want guidance.
You want a fast, effective approach you can continue on your own or with another professional.
You want to work through self-defeating beliefs that limit you, such as perfectionism, achievement addiction, people-pleasing or low frustration tolerance.

IMPORTANT: Coaching vs Counselling & Psychotherapy

Coaching and counselling may use many of the same tools, including TEAM methods, but they are different professional services.

Mental Health Coaching focuses on personal development, emotional wellness, practical skills and achieving personally chosen goals. It does not include clinical assessment, diagnosis, trauma treatment or treatment of mental-health disorders.

Counselling/Psychotherapy is a therapeutic service used to assess and address psychological distress and to manage or treat mental-health conditions within the practitioner’s professional scope.

Under my CPCA requirements, coaching and counselling must remain separate professional relationships. A coaching relationship cannot later become counselling, and a counselling relationship cannot become coaching.

I am currently offering coaching only.