Services

Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)

CT aims to help people welcome their feelings, regardless of whether they seem good, or bad. We often fight the negative emotions that we experience, be it guilt, sadness, or anger. Through embracing the feelings, we may not want to necessarily address, ACT can help regulate and control the painful emotions and use mindfulness to step away from them and view them objectively.

Attachment-based

Attachment-based therapy approaches relationship challenges through the lens of our earliest relationships. Understanding how we related to our parents/caregivers when we were growing up provides us with insight into how we currently relate to our significant others, our friends, and our children. With this approach we explore healing through meeting unmet early needs and discovering how to have healthy interpersonal relationships.

Christian Counselling

Christian counselling combines a faith-based approach with psychological theory and techniques. Scripture and prayer provides grounding, insight, comfort and hope in counselling sessions.

Cognitive Behavioural (CBT)

CBT challenges unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Through tracking thoughts, emotions, and behavioural reactions to an event, CBT can help orientate people towards altering negative thought processes and establishing more positive and rational views of themselves, others, and the world around them.

Compassion Focused

Compassion focused therapy aims to help an individual nurture compassion and care towards themselves and leave the cycle of negative self-talk. A compassion-focused approach encourages self-acceptance and kindness towards oneself and to others.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

EFT takes a developmental approach, exploring how our relationship with our parents/caregivers when we were growing up impacted our sense of security and ultimately influenced the formation of our identity. EFT focuses on enhancing awareness of our emotions, to better understand ourselves, effectively communicate and regulate our feelings.

Existential

Existential therapy explores the meaning and value we attach to our lives. Many times, issues that arise for us impact how we perceive the world, and the deeper meaning we attach to ourselves. A person’s purpose in life may feel confusing and futile at times. Existential therapy focuses on the positive aspects of freedom and the endless possibilities to make decisions and gain a more helpful outlook on our issues.

Family / Marital

Family and Marital therapy focus on the interactions and dynamics in marriages and families. Exploring the interconnectivity, how we impact one other, helps to pave the way for a more compassionate approach to our loved ones. The main goal in this therapy is to illuminate and find ways to communicate effectively with the people close to us, through an exploration of intimacy, affection, and respect while handling difficult situations.

Integrative

Integrative therapy encompasses eclectic and diverse techniques that are most appropriate for a client. Since every person is unique, a tailored approach to therapy involves selecting different modalities from different forms of therapy and mold them to the problems that are presented.

Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy is a subset of Cognitive Therapy. Often used to help treat re-occurring depression and anxiety, MBCT’s main goal is to enhance an individual’s awareness and acceptance of their thoughts and feelings. Mindful meditations are used to train our minds to become observers of our experiences as opposed to judges. The increased awareness allows us to restructure our unhelpful thoughts.

Person-Centered

Person-Centred Therapy, or often referred to as Client-Centred Therapy, allows the client to take charge of the conversation and opens up the ability for the individual to feel that they are an expert in their own life. Feeling accepted and supported in the therapeutic relationship unconditionally and no matter the situation is central to this approach.

Positive Psychology

Positive Psychology hinges on the belief that individuals have a great deal of strength in themselves. Focusing on the beautiful and subjective experiences that make someone have a fulfilling life through finding ways to express the positive traits can improve quality of life. Through the practice of acceptance of our history, and encouragement and optimism of future experiences, well-being can be increased.

Psychological Testing and Evaluation

Psychological testing consists of various tests that can help determine psychopathologies and diagnoses of a person by taking a look at symptoms which may contribute to certain disorders, and aid in determining the best suitable treatment for individuals.

Strength-Based

Despite the different set-basks that individuals face, a strength-based approach aims to acknowledge difficulties while also exploring the different strengths and resilience that an individual has gained and can further work towards in the face of difficult situations.

Trauma Focused

A Trauma-Focused approach explores current challenges through the lens of past painful experiences. By revisiting previous trauma, we can identify where sore spots may have developed, that are causing an intensified reaction to situations today. This compassionate approach aims to provide healing for painful histories and the ability to move forward in a healthy way.

Narrative Therapy

Narrative Therapy explores the story that you are currently living and how that impacts your view of yourself, your relationships, your thoughts, and emotions. You are invited to re-write your past, current, and future story in a healing and helpful way.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR utilizes a technique called bilateral stimulation to revisit painful memories and process them in a similar way that our brains do while sleeping with rapid eye movement or REM sleep. The client is facilitated in becoming an observer of their experience and trained in a variety of regulation strategies to manage challenging emotions. EMDR aims to heal the physiological reactions to painful memories.