Individual Therapy

Despite our best knowledge and intentions, sometimes we behave in ways we know are unhealthy. Eliminating undesirable habits, patterns and behaviours has little to do with desire and will power, and much more to do with practical structures that support you in choosing to be your best self. We’ll help you not only understand why a behavior (like unhealthy eating, self-medicating, infidelity, gambling, risky behaviors etc.) continues, but work with you to create the goals and plans to achieve positive and sustainable change. We also support clients in overcoming addiction, or who are affected by a loved one’s addiction. We utilize a harm-reduction framework and specific therapies utilized for addictions treatment include motivational interviewing, structured relapse prevention, and solution-focused approaches.

Trauma causes unproductive, unresolved and distressing feelings generated by a past experience. The experience could be medical, sexual, developmental; it could have occurred at work, on assignment, at home or far in the past. Whatever its source, trauma haunts us with feelings of distress and keeps us from living the life we desire. We address trauma with a variety of evidence-based treatments, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Trauma, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure to reduce symptoms over time.

Stress at school or work can disrupt many areas of life: productivity, motivation, sleep, moods, relationships and health. You may find yourself over-extended or toiling without purpose, moving closer and closer to fatigue and burn-out. We’ll examine the roots of stress and frustration to identify ways to copy and strategies to resolve work issues. Therapeutic approaches to this work include positive psychology, solution-focused, cognitive behavioural therapies, and mindfulness.