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Embrace Healing, Rediscover Yourself

Dr. Rick Lindal is a licensed and experienced psychologist with a passion for helping individuals overcome life’s challenges. With a warm and empathetic approach, he creates a safe space for clients to explore their thoughts and feelings.

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Partnership in Your Well-being

Our practice offers a range of services to address various mental health concerns. From individual therapy and couples counseling to child and adolescent services, we tailor our approach to meet the unique needs of each client. Explore our services to find the support that’s right for you.
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Individual Psychotherapy

Outer-Mind Therapies

Soul Anchored Therapy™ | Soul Anchored Living™

Soul-Anchored Therapy (SAT) is based on the concepts explored in Dr. Lindal’s book ‘The Purpose: Your Soul’s Emotional Journey. Learning how to experience life through a different lens’. SAT focuses on the overall picture, i.e. your reasons for existence and purpose for incarnating on Earth. It helps you explore the ultimate purpose and meaning of life; the reasons you struggle and why bad things happen
It provides an overarching perspective for existence and is used in combination with other therapy techniques described below (i.e. Logotherapy and Cognitive/Behavior Therapy) and ‘inner mind therapies’, described in the following section (i.e. age regression, releasement therapy, hypnosis, past-life regression, and life-between-lives regression). Soul-Anchored Therapy is a therapeutic approach based on spiritual and existential concepts. It is not a therapy based on religious tenets. The concepts of Soul Anchored Therapy have also been made available in an 8-Module on-line ‘self-therapy’ course for mental health professionals and the general public, titled Soul Anchored Living. You are invited to take this course. For more information, visit www.soulanchoredliving.com.

Logotherapy

Logotherapy is an existential form of psychotherapy developed by Dr. Victor Frankl. A fundamental assumption of this approach is that everyone must live a fulfilling life and discover ‘meaning’ as a consequence of their experiences.
Logotherapy assumes that the potential for meaning exists in the world for everyone and that the individual’s task is to relate to the world in such a manner as to discover meaning through their living. Logotherapy guides you in these terms, and will help you to focus on how to discover meaning in the various areas of your life, including your career, your relationships, and in suffering.

Cognitive/Behavior Therapy.

This approach is based on the premise that behavior can be altered by various reinforcement strategies that either target your ‘thoughts’ or your ‘behavior’.
For example, a technique called ‘thought stopping’ is aimed at modifying ‘thoughts’ that may be troubling to you, such as persistent obsessions or ruminations about a problematic relationship. Desensitization is another common technique that can be effective at modifying a specific troublesome behavior, such as a phobia.

Inner-Mind Therapies

Age Regression, Releasement, and Hypnosis.

Age Regression, Releasement Therapy, and Hypnosis, are techniques whereby you are guided to relax your ‘outer-mind’ and asked to focus inwards, allowing you to access knowledge that has been filed away in your unconscious mind, or information that is available to your ‘higher self’.
This trance-state will allow you an opportunity to draw on wisdom that is otherwise not available to your waking mind. Regression Therapy, Releasement Therapy, and Hypnosis are techniques that are helpful in relieving troublesome habits, fears, attitudes, and chronic pain experience.

Past-Life Regression.

Past-Life Regression is another avenue for you to explore your inner mind and recall deep memories that may be affecting your life as you experience it in this life-time.
This form of exploration may give you knowledge of other lives that you have lived and, consequently, an appreciation for a greater existential perspective of your current life-time. Psychological problems in your current life that have not responded to conventional types of therapy, often have their origin in past lives and can be alleviated with this type of therapy.

Life Between Lives Regression.

This form of therapy will allow you to enter the ‘in-between-lives’ realm where we reside when we are not incarnated.
In this dimension decisions are made about upcoming incarnations, and the reasons why you decided to be born on Earth. This form of exploration, once again, adds to your ‘existential’ understanding and may help you discover meaning in your current life.

Psychological Assessments

Independent Medical Assessments

I provide ‘independent medical assessments’ in relation to motor vehicle accidents (MVAs).
These assessments focus on identifying the emotional/psychological and functional sequelae of MVAs and their appropriate treatment.

Diagnostic Assessments

Diagnostic assessment are for identifying mental health issues and their appropriate treatment.
Referrals are accepted from physicians, lawyers, insurance providers, and other related professionals.
Professional Expertise

Specialized Support for Every Stage of Life

My clients are predominantly adults. I also see young adults, age 16 and up. The majority of people who come to see me are either feeling depressed or anxious. You may be feeling lonely, suffering from low-self esteem, feeling frustrated and angry, experiencing phobias, feeling obsessive and compulsive, or simply feeling that your life has become meaningless.

Your psychological state of mind may be due to a variety of circumstances, including:

  • Relationship problems.
  • Job-stress.
  • Post-traumatic stress.
  • Sexual abuse, or sexual offenses.
  • Addictions to alcohol, drugs or to sex.
  • Sexual orientation, or gender identity.
How long will therapy take?

Explore Effective Therapy Approaches with Dr. Rick Lindal

Most clients will find initial relief during the first 12 weeks of individual psychotherapy. Others may have more deep-seated problems, or may wish to resolve their problems more completely, and choose to continue psychotherapy for longer periods of time. 

I encourage you to email for an initial appointment. This will allow me to assess your situation thoroughly and to give an opinion about a suggested course of therapy. It will also give you an opportunity to meet with me and decide whether you feel comfortable with talking to me about your problems.Psychotherapy sessions may also be offered via videoconferencing (Zoom)

Call 905 396 2052 or email dr.rick@thepurpose.ca

How much will it cost?

My services are not covered by OHIP. The Ontario Psychological Association Recommends that psychologists charge a fee of $225 per hour. However, my fee is normally $200 per hour. No HST.

Check your workplace insurance coverage, as all of the costs may be covered. Your Insurance company will usually cover psychotherapy fees, if you have been involved in a motor vehicle accident. Clients injured at work will usually be covered by the Workers’ Compensation Board.
Office Hours:
In Person:

10 AM – 5 PM, Tuesdays and Thursdays

Via videoconferencing:
10 AM – 5 PM, Mondays – Fridays
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Embark on a journey to mental wellness. Contact us for a confidential consultation.

phone number

(905) 396 2052

email

dr.rick@thepurpose.ca

location

King Street E./Division Street, Bowmanville, Ontario

Author of ‘Soul Anchored Living’ and ‘Soul Anchored Therapy’

an Online self-therapy course for individuals and therapists

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Author: Rick Lindal, Ph.D., 2014

“Now…come explore the purpose of life through a different lens…”

Are you feeling lost in life? Do your emotions sometimes overwhelm you? Do you wonder why bad things happen?

Written for readers from diverse backgrounds, this book explores the purpose of our emotional journey through life from a psycho-soul perspective and helps us answer the question “Why am I here?” It is a handbook for surviving the inevitable ups and downs that we all must cope with as we experience the intense emotions of life. With therapeutic insights drawn from over 30 years’ experience as a clinical psychologist, and based on his own autobiographical journey, Dr. Lindal invites you to look at your life through a different lens. While in part a fictionalized story, the teachings he offers on self-exploration and understanding will help you understand the purpose of your existence. Dr. Lindal’s teachings are woven into an ‘easy-to-read’ story that follows the adventures of Rikki, whose soul sets off on a journey from the Spiritual Dimension into a lifetime on Earth.

Over the course of this lifetime, Rikki learns about earthly existence and how we are responsible for creating our own reality within it. He also learns about the reasons why we choose to experience negative emotions in life, as well as the circumstances that may lead people to perform evil acts, and ways to prevent that from happening.

His inspirational backstory of coming to terms with his own sexuality is also woven into the storyline of this book, which may motivate the reader to find purpose and meaning in their soul’s own adventure through life.

Professional Credentials and Qualifications

Education
  • Ph.D degree in Clinical Psychology. University of York, England, 1985.
  • M.A. degree in Psychology. University of Guelph, Ontario. 1979.
  • B.Sc. degree in Psychology. University of Toronto. 1977.
  • Clinical Internship Certificate. University of Calgary/Foothills Hospital, 1980.
  • Certificate of Logotherapy. St. Michael’s College/ University of Toronto, 1997.
Certification
  • Dr. Lindal is a registered psychologist in ‘good standing’ with The College of Psychologists of Ontario.
  • Member of the Canadian Psychological Association.
  • Member of the Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology.
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Soul Anchored Living course

Rick Lindal, Ph.D, is also the author of Soul Anchored Living™. Soul Anchored Living is an on-line self-therapy course designed for individuals who are struggling to find purpose and meaning in their lives. It also provides valuable teachings for mental health workers that can be passed on to their clients.
An online course that will bridge the divide between your spiritual self and your living reality. This course will provide you with a perspective that may help you understand why our lives are often an emotional rollercoaster, and it will provide new insights that may help you overcome and to grow from those experiences.
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