Gerry Goertzen, MA
COUNSELLOR/PSYCHOTHERAPIST
DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER OF RIVERBEND COUNSELLING
Restorative Justice
- Mental health assessment
- Trauma recovery
- Risk assessment reporting
- Pre-sentence report
- For more information on Gerry’s Restorative Justice services, visit Our Services
Trauma Recovery
- Victims of crime
- Abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Critical incidents
Addictions; substance and process addictions
- Alcohol
- Street drugs
- Prescription drugs
- Gambling
- Sex
- Work
- Anger
- Internet
You will feel at home in his presence because Gerry is at home with himself. Not only does he have natural talent for the care-giving profession, he also has the training experience to match. Gerry’s passions include leadership of the agency, writing and speaking, however he is at his best when meeting with individuals, who need help through their struggles. He offers a caring and thoughtful approach while giving straightforward advice.
Every person’s hardships come in all sizes and shapes, and will likely require attention to several or all of these five areas below. When you meet with Gerry, he will help you process these facets of your life and gain insight and recapture a vision for your future.
- Your emotional experience, and how these feelings inform your thoughts and behaviour.
- Your way of thinking, including underlying beliefs and attitudes.
- Your behavioural choices, and how those behaviours/actions serve or harm you.
- Your relational style, including your influence on others and their influence on you.
- Your core values, including spiritual and moral standards and ideals.
- Author, Relational Triumph: Solving Relational Stress and Building Relational Success. http://www.relational-triumph.com/
- Humanitarian work in Roatan, Honduras: In 2010, Gerry Goertzen and his son Jesse went to Roatan, Honduras to offer help at an Orphanage. Here Gerry is working on building repairs on a Learning Centre.
- Talk-show guest, Mark and Mandy Show
- Columnist, Christian Week, 2008-2012
- Columnist, Globe and Mail, 2008
- Columnist Manitoba Herald, 2009
- Columnist, Winnipeg Free Press, 2012
- Columnist, Winnipeg Women/Men Magazine, 2014
- Speaker