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Modality

Modality

Starting the journey toward self-disclosure and healing can be both courageous and challenging. It’s a path that allows you to explore a deeper understanding and awareness of yourself. You might encounter moments of surprise, discovering aspects of yourself you didn’t expect, as well as moments of joy, recognizing strengths and insights you may hold.

In individual therapy, we will work together to ask and answer questions that can lead to a clearer understanding of your experiences and concerns. I am here to support you every step of the way, utilizing a range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Attachment Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Together, we will navigate this journey with a Trauma-Informed, Culturally Sensitive, and Anti-Oppressive perspective, ensuring that you feel safe and understood throughout the process.

I am here to support you as you work towards setting meaningful goals and managing the challenges of stress, anxiety, and mood disorders. Together, we can navigate the difficulties that arise from trauma, grief, and the transitions that life brings. My goal is to help you gain a deeper understanding of healthy relationships and to empower you as you cultivate self-compassion and build self-esteem.

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Areas of Specialization and Therapeutic Modalities

We will also focus on enhancing your parenting and communication skills while defining personal and relational boundaries that protect your well-being. Through our work, we can help you regulate your emotions and find effective ways to resolve conflicts.

The therapeutic approach we choose will be tailored to your unique needs. I want to ensure you feel informed and supported, so I’ll provide an overview of some evidence-based modalities we might use and how they can help you with your specific concerns. You’re not alone in this journey.

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
(CBT)
helps you make connections between your thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. This form of therapy is effective in helping individuals manage experiences related to anxiety, depression, addictions, and trauma.
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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
(DBT)
This form of therapy at times incorporates elements of CBT; however, DBT offers specific skills and techniques to assist individuals who are struggling with emotional dysregulation, distress, and interpersonal relationship concerns.
3
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. (SFBT)
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Narrative Therapy
is a form of counselling that views people as separate from their problems. This allows clients to get some distance from the issue to see how it might be helping them, or protecting them, more than it is hurting them. With this new perspective, individuals feel more empowered to make changes in their thought patterns and behaviour and “rewrite” their life story for a future that reflects who they are, what they are capable of, and what their purpose is, separate from their problems.
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Emotion-focused Family Therapy (EFFT)
is an attachment-based approach that combines both systemic and experiential interventions to mend broken bonds and heal fractured families. It focuses on the emotional experience within a family and the problem patterns that block family members from accessing the resources they would otherwise share. A primary goal of EFFT is to reduce problematic behaviour by creating new patterns of emotional accessibility and responsiveness that offer a secure base for children to develop and families to thrive. EFFT provides a practical approach to engaging families at an emotional level. Accessing, processing, and connecting family members through the power of emotional experience promotes healing and fosters a family’s resilience to the everyday and unexpected challenges of life.