Our Services

WHAT I DO

I offer confidential counselling and psychotherapy services tailored to your needs.

My sessions are available in-person, virtually via secure video, or over the phone, ensuring flexibility and convenience for our clients.

Insurance and Payment Information
Before booking, please verify with your insurance provider to confirm coverage, which may be listed under Social Work, Therapy, Counselling, or Family Therapy. If your insurance does not cover our services, you can still submit your receipts as a health expense on your income tax return.

Sliding Scale Options
I believe everyone should have access to the support they need. If the standard fee is a barrier for you, please reach out to discuss my limited sliding scale positions, designed for those without coverage and with limited financial resources.

 

 

Therapeutic approaches Include

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

The main theory behind Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is that your thoughts, feelings, and behaviour all impact one another.  Learning and using specific techniques of CBT, a person can replace problematic thought patterns with more positive and productive ones.  This involves reframing perspective and view life’s challenges in a different way. 

Working together, the client and therapist identify goals and expected outcomes, resulting in the client developing coping skills and better managing stressful situations.

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

Cognitive Processing Therapy is an evidence-based, cognitive behavioural treatment for adults and adolescents who are experiencing symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

CPT is a structured treatment that requires client participation in session and between sessions. The goals of CPT are to help individuals stop avoiding trauma-related thoughts and emotions, experience their natural trauma-related emotions, and address thought-patterns, as their thoughts help maintain their PTSD symptoms, and this can be changed.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is cognitive-based in that it helps individuals identify patterns in their thoughts, beliefs, and assumptions which can be creating more difficulties in their lives. 

Working together, the client and therapist identify negative and unhealthy behaviour patterns and emotions, and explore positive, healthy ways to change them.  The client is able to cope better with stress that occurs from daily situations, regulate their emotions, and improve relationships with others.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is often referred to individuals experiencing destructive behaviours (i.e. self-harm), mental health disorders (i.e. Borderline Personality Disorder) and chronic suicidal attempts. 

Grief and Loss

It is important to allow yourself time to grieve, and to remember everyone deals with grief in their own way. Grief is universal and individuals experience loss in many ways, such as loss of a loved person or pet, the loss of identity, the loss of a relationship, the loss of a job, etc.  With the support of their therapist, the person can begin to explore their own individual experience with grief.  There is acknowledging and validating the pain of the loss, and working through the effects of grief.

Some individuals experience the effects of grief much more severely than others. During the grieving process, individuals can experience:

  • Interference with daily activities (i.e. lack of focus and motivation)
  • Unexpected ‘waves’ of intense emotions and feelings (i.e. guilt, sadness, anger)
  • Physical pain and symptoms (i.e. loss of appetite, sleep disturbances)
  • Finding it harder to carry on with their own lives
  • Difficulties in existing relationships
  • Depression

The client and therapist work together in navigating the individual’s path of healing, developing a more balanced mental, emotional, and physical state of well-being. 

“The first step to getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”