When life throws us difficulties it can be a challenge to face them. Engaging in psychotherapy can be a bit like teaming up with a tour guide on your journey through the chaos of life. When we feel lost and hopeless it helps to have someone pull out a map and and help us rediscover who we really are and where we are going.
In individual psychotherapy I work with you one-on-one to find your path to healing. I offer a safe, compassionate space where you can openly and confidentially explore your thoughts, emotions, feelings and behaviours.
My aim is to offer you more than a simple band-aid solution for your symptoms. My hope is to help you dig deep down, under the surface, to find the roots of your pain, finding deep, lasting healing. Looking deeply within can allow you to find a greater depth of being, personal expansion, greater self-understanding, deeper meaning and purpose in life and to have closer intimate relationships.
I use a holistic, integrative approach to therapy which draws from several therapeutic modalities depending on what best suits my YOU. Together we can work on a variety of issues such as:
- depression
- anxiety
- childhood abuse
- trauma
- chronic pain
- compassion fatigue
- burn out
- life changes (ex. adjustment to post-secondary education, entering the workforce, marriage, parenthood, career change)
- relationship problems
- existential crisis
- spiritual emergence/awakening
- emptiness
- low self-esteem
My Holistic, Integrative approach focuses on mind, body and soul. We will use a variety of the following modalities: Psychodynamic - Aims to bring hidden parts of ourselves into awareness; Somatic/Body Oriented- Aims to locate where your emotions and experiences have become stored in your body; S.A.F.E. EMDR - Aims to access and process unresolved trauma in the deeper parts of the brain; Brainspotting - Also aims to access and process unresolved trauma in the deeper parts of the brain; Transpersonal - Views humans as spiritual, energetic beings; Existential - Aims to help you find meaning and purpose in life.
This approach uses methods such as:
- dialogue (talk therapy)
- inner child work
- emotional expression and release
- somatic/body awareness
- movement exercises
- dream work
- art therapy
- mindfulness
- breathing techniques
- guided visualization
- meditation
