about Sylvia Plester-Silk

Welcome to a new way of looking at your life! My name is Sylvia Plester-Silk and I too was challenged to look at my life and made the ultimate choice to move towards healing myself. Let me share my story with you.

I grew up in Rural Ontario on a farm, the youngest child of 14 to older parents. From the time I was small, I was an advocate for individuals who were not being treated respectfully. Some might call me small but mighty at that time in my life. Having 13 older siblings, I often felt that the odds were against me, that I had more than two parents, as they often tried to correct my behaviour by disciplining me.

In my early 20’s my father had a heart attack and I went into crisis. At that time, I had a lot of issues with him and I wanted to resolve them before he left this world. So I enrolled myself in therapy. The initial part was challenging until I found the therapist that I felt I could open up to and share my issues with. My search for the ideal therapist was important because I knew she would become my primary support in my life. In fact, I learned firsthand the value of having my own advocate to be treated fairly for the first time ever. With her help, I learned to look at my emotions and to own them, honour them and feel them and I experienced a new freedom as a result of my work with her. To this day, I am very grateful to Trish for all her caring, wisdom and support.

My life went along quite well after that; my relationship with my partner improved and I continued to need to grow and expand my knowledge base and my personal insights. In the mid 1990’s I had the good fortune to meet a lovely woman who did Therapeutic Touch, and despite my skepticism about this thing called “energy work”, I allowed her to work on me and my body and was really pleased with the results. I quickly moved from being a skeptic to being very curious!

This then catapulted me into another great growth spurt where I began to study energy work. I also saw energy therapists to assist with my own healing and found that I experienced even greater freedom than the counselling offered. The more I learned and experienced with energy work, the more I shifted and softened and got in touch with my more gentle side. Within a few years, I decided that I too, wanted to open a healing practice where individuals could heal without years and years of therapy. In fact, I began to realize that our bodies have the inherent ability to heal without pain and struggle.

By the late 1990’s I was realizing that my career in social work was limited, that I no longer believed that I was giving the best service available to my clients, so I began to integrate my energy work with my private therapy clients. They began to see improvements and have breakthroughs in their lives at a faster pace then talk therapy could enable.

Today I continue to value my own expansion and learning and it is from this perspective that I invite my clients to work through their challenges with me. As I work with my clients, I maintain a holistic viewpoint – one of the whole person and not just the part that’s in immediate pain. At the same time, I recognize the value of the individual as separate from their pain and issues. I help my clients experience emotional cleansing, mental freedom, physical healing and to achieve spiritual success.

I would like to invite you on a path of inner healing so that you may also experience the freedom of recovery!

mission, vision and values

Sylvia's Mission is "Helping People reach their potential in all aspects of their lives." For more information, review Sylvia's mission, vision and value statement.

location

As well as working with clients in her comfortable office, Sylvia offers distance therapy, via telephone. She would be pleased to discuss this option with you.

office

44 Cardigan Street, Guelph, Ontario N1E 1N3
(519) 822-3776

You may contact Sylvia in confidence. Excellent references are available.