Approach
Anti-oppressive, Trauma Informed
A recognition and understanding of the presence and impact of various forms of oppression, privilege, social inequality & trauma in clients’ lives. Helping clients identify and address the impact, challenge oppressive systems, and feel empowered.
Client-centred Collaborative
You are the expert when it comes to your life, thoughts, feelings and experiences. We work in partnership to help you create change in the areas that matter most.
Evidence-Based
I use evidence-based modalities and techniques to help you move forward and achieve your goals.
Methods Used Include
- Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based, goal-oriented therapy used for a specific, limited amount of time.
- This approach helps with many challenges and psychological difficulties including anxiety, depression, substance use, negative thoughts, and relationship conflict.
- CBT views our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours as connected. Change in one area will likely create change in the other areas.
- It helps you learn how to identify and reframe unhelpful thoughts that are keeping you stuck, and that maintain anxiety or depression.
- CBT can help you develop the skills and strategies you need to improve and maintain well-being.
- Various interventions implemented to help you address and manage unhelpful thoughts and feelings keeping you feeling stuck and unhappy.
- Dialectical behaviour therapy focuses on helping people develop skills to cope with difficult situations and emotions. These skills include mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance.
- I will work with you to learn these skills and put them into practice in your everyday life.
- DBT can help reduce the frequency and intensity of your negative behaviours and thoughts and improve your overall well-being.
- Based on John and Julie Gottman’s “Sound Relationship House Theory.”
- You’ll learn to replace negative conflict patterns with positive interactions and repair past hurts.
- This method will help you strengthen your relationships in three primary areas:
- Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) is both evidence-based and strength-based.
- SFBT addresses solutions rather than problems by emphasizing strengths, competencies, and possibilities, rather than weaknesses, deficits, and limitations.
- Goals and personal strengths are combined to build solutions to problems.
- The client is in control of their future, regardless of what kind of past they have had.
- The essence of SFBT is to look for your strengths rather than weaknesses and to explore better outcomes.
- A collaborative and client-centered approach that helps you understand and address the complexities and effects of ADHD.
- Life Coaching can help you move forward and achieve relationship goals, retirement goals, career goals, health goals, and goals for balance and well-being.
- Together we will discover and use your strengths and abilities to help you move forward.
- We will start by creating a personalized action plan with strategies and solutions for change.
- Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) helps address and release unwanted emotions or behaviours that may develop after traumatic incidents.
- This approach may rapidly reduce Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
- Life Stress Reduction (LSR) is a complementary approach to TIR.
- This approach helps you reduce emotional pain.
- LSR helps with personal issues, including difficult relationships, low self-esteem, financial problems, health issues and anxiety.
- Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-oriented approach that can help heal trauma and other stress disorders.
- This approach helps release traumatic shock, which is key to healing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
- SE helps you when you’re “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze response.
- Exploring the connection between a client’s early attachment experiences with primary caregivers and their ability to form healthy emotional and physical relationships as an adult.
- Through an attachment lens helping clients mend or recover from attachment breaks or fractures in family and adult relationships.
- Brief, cognitive behavioral and manualized approach that helps clients maintain change around their substance use.
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