As a Wellness Counsellor, I serve to enhance the total wellbeing of my clients by making use of a systems approach to counselling – working towards achieving wholeness within the integrative unity of body, mind and spirit. The level of wellness counselling is that of primary health care.
Bill Hettler, defined wellness as “an active process through which people become aware of, and make choices toward a more successful existence.”
Within the counseling profession, it is agreed upon that wellness consists of “a way of life oriented toward optimal health and well-being, in which body, mind, and spirit are integrated by the individual to live life more fully within the human and natural community”.
Prevention and wellness promotion efforts can help build coping strategies that can help alleviate or reduce the severity of unavoidable mental health concerns.
