Approach

No matter what you are seeking help for, I will always honour collaboration, curiosity, and alliance in our work together.

My work is integrative, meaning that I draw from several therapeutic approaches and principles to help you meet your goals. I am trained in several evidence-based modalities, including:

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT):

Helps couples and individuals to change negative patterns by reframing and re-experiencing them with an attachment lens, with the goal of creating a more secure connection to self and others.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Emphasizes psychological flexibility—the capacity to contact the present moment fully, and, based on what the situation affords, changing or persisting in behavior in the service of chosen values.

Logotherapy

Holds the premise that the primary motivational force of an individual is to find meaning in life.

The search for meaning, much like the search for pleasure, must be conducted obliquely. Meaning ensues from meaningful activity: the more we deliberately pursue it, the less likely are we to find it; the rational questions one can pose about meaning will always outlast the answers. — Irvin Yalom

Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT)

Targets overcontrol, characterized by excessive inhibition, rigidity, or cautiousness. This is a more structured approach that may be helpful for individuals who have struggled with chronic depression, social isolation, and difficulty changing routines.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Requires the therapist to foster a space where individuals can contact previously unexamined aspects of themselves in order to deconstruct recurring sources of tension.