My Services

How can individual therapy help?

Think of therapy, also known as psychotherapy or “talk therapy”, as a safe, supportive, and confidential space where you can talk about what’s hurting inside and work towards greater mental and emotional wellbeing.

My primary role as a therapist is to help you move through the internal barriers that hold you back from being who you want to be in the world. As we go through life and come up against painful things, we naturally respond to those events by (often in ways we don’t realize at the time) hardening ourselves, turning off our emotions, and denying or even burying parts of who we are.

In that sense, therapy is really all about reuniting with or rediscovering who you are underneath all the pain, the defenses, and the fear. It really is about coming home to yourself, so that you can show up even more authentically in the world around you.

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Areas of Specialization

Anxiety

Depression

Shame and low self-worth

Grief and loss

Trauma and PTSD

Childhood emotional neglect

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Body image issues

Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)

Life transitions

Self-acceptance

Perfectionism

Approaches I Use

I apologize for how rampant acronyms are in our field! Here are the approaches I draw from to help people move towards greater authenticity, wholeness, and wellbeing.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT evolved from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). This mindfulness-based therapy focuses on helping people develop a more compassionate relationship with the thoughts and feelings that cause them pain, and empowers them to take committed action in daily life that reflects their deeply held values, even when difficult emotions or challenging circumstances are part of the picture.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR taps into the brain’s natural ability to heal by using guided eye movements (among other methods) to help people process and reduce the lasting emotional and somatic impact of distressing memories and traumatic experiences.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
Highly effective for anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, ERP aims to liberate people from the safety behaviours that sometimes keep them locked in a negative cycle with distressing, unwanted, or disturbing thoughts. ERP is all about helping people face their fears, in incremental and gradual ways, and discover how brave they actually are so that anxious or obsessive thoughts aren’t in the “driver’s seat” of their lives anymore.
Emotion-Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)
EFIT focuses on helping people cultivate a resilient, secure, and coherent sense of self by exploring and resolving the deeper emotional pain that keeps them trapped in negative cycles with themselves and other people.
Dialectical-Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
Another evolution of CBT, DBT is all about equipping people with a core set of skills to manage their emotions more effectively, improve their relationships with other people, and tolerate distress in helpful ways.