Therapeutic Approaches

We understand that not one formula fits all individuals. By ensuring you feel safe and supported throughout your therapeutic journey I incorporate a unique blend of evidence-based approaches tailored to your specific needs. This provides you with the perfect space to achieve optimal growth and success in your therapeutic journey.

Person Centered (PCT)

    • Non-directive

    • Client led

    • Exceptional at allowing a safe and supportive space for the client to explore what brought them to therapy

    • No homework

    • Requires client's active participation

    • Base approach in therapy

    • Clients navigating maladaptive thoughts and behaviours

    • Mental Health disorders

    • Interpersonal issues

    • Modification of maladaptive thoughts and behaviours

    • Individuals/couples

Strength Based (SBT)

    • Talk therapy

    • Identifying specifics that assist with individual intern growth

    • Client is the storyteller

    • Focuses on positive personal perspective

    • Assists in helping individuals see they are resourceful and resilient

    • Often used in conjunction with other therapeutic approaches

    • Reframing

    • History of trauma

    • Struggling with stress

    • PTSD

    • Individuals/couples

Solution Focused (SFT)

    • Future focused

    • Short-term therapy approach

    • Goal focused

    • Emphasis on solutions to clients' issue

    • Motivational

    • Encourages behavioural changes desired by the client

    • “Miracle questions”

    • Adults

    • Teenagers

    • Individuals/couples

    • Athletes

    • Performers

    • Anxiety

    • Depression

    • Self-esteem

    • Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

Cognitive Behavioural (CBT)

    • Popular therapeutic approach

    • Unlocking unhelpful learnt thoughts, feelings and behavioural patterns

    • Talk therapy

    • Navigate through the current problem

    • Focus on the present “Here and now”

    • Anxiety

    • Depression

    • Addiction

    • Relationship issues

    • ADHD

    • varying mental health illnesses

Attachment-Based

    • 4 types of attachment styles

    • How individuals develop attached to their parents/caregivers

    • Restructure and gain control of one's self

    • Assisting in building meaningful connections with others

    • Childhood trauma

    • Relationship issues

    • Trust issues

    • Individuals/couples

Emotion Focused (EFT)

    • Gaining insight into clients emotional awareness and avoidant tendencies

    • Creating self-awareness

    • Building internal connections

    • Learning to accept and understand emotions and self-regulate

    • Trauma

    • Anxiety

    • Depression

    • Eating disorders

    • Childhood trauma

    • Interpersonal issues

    • Relationship issues

Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)

    • Increasing consistency in behaviour

    • Mindfulness

    • Acceptances of the clients own thoughts and feelings

    • Gaining the ability to respond to uncontrollable situations

    • Working through one's own criticisms of self

    • Anxiety

    • Depression

    • OCD

    • Addictions

Existential

    • Exploring client's beliefs surrounding death, freedom/ responsibility, isolation and meaning/meaninglessness

    • Collaborative process

    • Facing internal conflict and gaining perspective and clarity

    • Anxiety

    • Depression

    • Addiction

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things - Albert Einstein

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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things - Albert Einstein 〰️