Tim Boutlon is a Psychotherapist in downtown Guelph, Ontario. Tim has personal experience and professional insight into the journey of deep loss, mourning andgrief. He has 25+ years of experience in teaching and counselling as an ordained minister and Hospital Chaplain. At the age of 41, Tim became a young widower, the father of three young children. Tim knows, personally, the path of grief recovery and healing. He has re-discovered renewal, energy and passion, and feels compelled to share his story and experience in service to others. Tim 'Will Walk With You' along your journey, creating a safe environment in which to discover your healing, completion and renewal.

I work with a paradigm of possibility rather than pathology. My approach to both Transitions Life Coaching and Grief Recovery is to first listen. As a companion on your journey I Will Walk With You as together we discover, articulate, align and achieve your goals. I will offer you my compassion, experience and encouragement. Together we will bring clarity to your uncertainties, frame your new visions and goals, and engage action designs to achieve them. Together we journey into your renewed life.

"We are not just humans being – we are also humans becoming, constantly in a state of change. To the degree to which we are aware of these changes and take responsibility for them, we are freer to become more of who we are capable of becoming."
~ Pat Williams/Diane S. Menendez

Services Descriptions
I have personal experience and professional insight into two related experiences of human emotional, psychological and spiritual stress and renewal. Every loss or change in life alters our sense of self.

Life Coaching, Transitions and Re-Imagining:
As your Coach I Will Walk With You as you experience significant life changes and transitions. Together we bring clarity to your uncertainties, encounter the process of your role-exit, and frame your new visions and goals. We discover and achieve renewed meaning, purpose and vitality for your life.

Grief Recovery:
I have walked this journey of deep loss, mourning and grief, through to healing and renewal, as a young widower and father. Through my experience of grief recovery, I Will Walk With You as we gently and intentionally journey through your grief story, bringing completion to your pain and isolation, and moving beyond them; releasing the past, reorienting to your future, and reconnecting to your present.

Synopsis of Grief Practice:
Grief is individual and unique. As every relationship is unique, so are the feelings and thoughts each person will have about the relationship that has been altered by death, divorce, or other reasons. Recovery from loss is accomplished, in part, by discovering and completing the undelivered communications in our relationships. You may find yourself having conversatinos in your head with someone you cannot speak to in person, thinking of the better, different, or more replays of what hasn't been said. Completion of pain caused by loss is what allows us to let go of what might have been, hold on to the goodness of what was, and move beyond our loss to being present to our lives now. There is a long list of losses which can produce the range of experiences and Emotions that we call "grief", often compounding upon one another.
Tim can help with:

• • Death of a loved, or not-so-loved one
• • Divorce/Separation/Estrangement
• • Loss of children, through death or distance (emotional, geographical)
• • Death of a former spouse/partner
• • Death of a pet companion
• • "Blue" Holidays
• • Legal problems
• • Empty nest, or children starting school
• • Coming out as a whole gay or lesbian person. Transition into the LGBT community
• • Retirement, resulting in a loss of familiarity, community, purpose
• • Major health changes - loss of independence, through age, illness or frailty
• • Loss of community -faith, club, place of employment, extended family
• • Loss of income/lifestyle through major financial changes
• • Loss of friends -through conflict, divorce/separation
• • Moving from one community to another
• • Loss of purpose
• • And many other losses.