Interventions in therapy will work to increase your understanding of yourself – your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and hopes – and meaningful action toward your goals. Their purposes alleviating symptoms underlying your presenting concerns of anger, depression, overwhelm, disordered eating, and other adverse personal or interpersonal concerns. Whether therapy will utilize active, behaviourally-targeted approaches or insight-oriented, personal growth and discovery approaches depends on the hopes and goals for each of my clients.

What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?

CBT is a structured, goal-oriented psychotherapy that uses a practical solution-focused approach and stresses the connection between our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Therapists collaborate with clients to change patterns of thinking and behaving underlying clients’ difficulties, equipping clients with strategies to implement in everyday life that increase one’s resilience and ability to cope. CBT is effective for various concerns such as anxiety, depression, anger, stress, adverse life experiences, relationship and communication difficulties, stress management, and more.

What is Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)?

EFT approaches support clients in identifying, exploring, and understanding their emotions. This helps clients arrive at acceptance of their feelings and transform them into helpful information, allowing clients to break out of negative emotional cycles within relationships and regulate their emotions in a way that doesn’t overwhelm them.

Psychodynamic & Insight-Oriented Approaches:

Insight-oriented therapies, such as psychodynamic therapy, focuses on bringing the unconscious into conscious awareness to promote insight and conflict resolution. Therapists explore clients’ experiences related to and often underlying their current concerns, which are often rooted in past experiences that have left hurtful, lasting impacts on them.

Expertise:

I help to support clients with a range of presenting concerns, many of which include:

  • Anxiety & Stress
  • Depression
  • Emotional Disturbances & Dysregulation (including, but not limited to, depression, anger, and grief)
  • Eating Disorders
  • Self-Esteem & Confidence
  • Relational Difficulties
  • Trauma
  • Abuse & Sexual Abuse
  • Body-Image & Body-Dysmorphia
  • Perfectionism
  • Codependency & Boundary Issues