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Allison Cordner & Associates | Speakeasy Counselling
  • HOME
  • About
    • ABOUT Allison Cordner
    • About Gina Carnegie
    • Professional Endorsements
  • Therapy
    • THERAPY APPROACHES
    • SOMATIC THERAPY
    • THERAPY FOR PROFESSIONALS
  • Clinical Supervision
  • RATES & FAQ
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HIGH ACHIEVERS ARE HUMAN TOO Therapy for ambitious professionals who want to feel more grounded, connected and fulfilled — not just successful.


Online therapy across Canada • Private & confidential

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Success doesn’t make you immune to feeling stuck.

 

You may be accustomed to being the person who performs, solves problems and keeps going. But the strategies that help you succeed professionally don’t always help when it comes to your nervous system, relationships or emotional life.

You might recognize yourself in:

  • Anxiety, overthinking or difficulty switching off
  • Burnout and the pressure to keep performing
  • Perfectionism and relentless self-criticism
  • Feeling disconnected despite external success
  • Relationship or attachment patterns you understand intellectually but keep repeating
  • Difficulty accessing vulnerability, intimacy or emotion
  • Feeling responsible for everyone while rarely feeling supported yourself

You don’t need more advice about how to perform better. Therapy can be a place where you don’t have to perform at all.

A Deeper Kind of Therapy

You’ve probably already thought about this. A lot.

 

Many of the professionals I work with are insightful, self-aware and very good at understanding why they feel or behave the way they do.

But understanding a pattern doesn’t always change it.

You can know why you overthink and still not be able to switch off.
You can understand your attachment patterns and still repeat them.

You can recognize that you’re overwhelmed and still find yourself pushing harder. You can have a successful life and still feel disconnected from it.

My approach goes beyond insight alone.

My approach goes beyond insight alone.

 I integrate Somatic Experiencing®, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), attachment-focused and experiential therapy to work with both the mind and the nervous system.

Together, we can work toward:

  • Feeling calmer without losing your drive
  • Recognizing and changing patterns rather than simply understanding them

Expert Care

  • Developing healthier, more secure relationships
  • Feeling more connected to your emotions and yourself

Real Results

  • Creating a life that feels as good internally as it looks externally

The goal isn’t to make you less ambitious. It’s to help success cost you less.

Therapy for Professionals in High-Pressure Environments

Your career may be demanding. Therapy doesn’t need to become another thing you have to perform well.

 

Private online therapy across Canada.

MEET ALLISON

A Place Where You Don’t Have to Have It All Together

 I work with people who are often very good at functioning — even when things don’t feel good underneath.

 My style is warm, direct and deeply relational. Therapy with me isn’t about sitting back while you analyze yourself for another hour. We pay attention to what is happening in the moment — in your thoughts, emotions, relationships and nervous system — so that change can become something you experience, not simply something you understand.

 I bring together Somatic Experiencing®, AEDP, attachment-focused and experiential psychotherapy to help you work with patterns that may have been difficult to shift through insight alone.

You don’t need to arrive knowing exactly what’s wrong or what you want to work on.

 You can simply arrive as you are.


Credentials underneath, kept understated


Allison Cordner, MACP, RCC, RTC, SEP
Registered Clinical Counsellor • Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner
AEDP Level 3 • Registered Counselling Supervisor

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