Our Modalities

All of our modalities are utilized within an interpersonal, relational framework. We know that healing occurs in trust-worthy relationships. We emphasize the creation and maintenance of safe and caring therapeutic relationships.
Within this relational framework we use a range of client-centered and evidence based approaches to support healing, self-understanding, and meaningful change.

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Evidence-Based & Practical Approaches

Structured, research-backed methods focused on building skills and creating meaningful change.

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
    Identifying and shifting unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours.
  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
    Building skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.
  • Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
    Helping you accept difficult thoughts while taking action aligned with your values.
  • Trauma-Informed Therapy 
    Ensuring all work is grounded in safety, trust, and an understanding of how trauma impacts the mind and body.

Trauma-Focused & Deep Processing Therapies

  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
    A structured approach to processing trauma and reducing its emotional impact.
  • Somatic Experiencing
    A body-based approach that helps release stored trauma and regulate the nervous system.
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) 
    Strengthening emotional bonds and improving connection, often used in couples work.
  • Hypnotherapy
    Using guided relaxation and focused attention to access deeper patterns and facilitate change.

Insight-Oriented & Reflective Approaches

Focused on self-awareness, meaning, and deeper understanding of your inner world.

  • Humanistic, Existential & Client-Centered Therapy
    A supportive, non-judgmental space focused on personal growth, meaning, and self-discovery.
  • Jungian Perspective
    Exploring patterns, archetypes, and the deeper layers of the psyche.
  • Focusing-Oriented Therapy 
    Helping you tune into your inner emotional experience to guide healing and decision-making.
  • Psychodynamic & Experiential Therapy
    Exploring and modifying internal psychological processes and structures that are shaping your current behaviours, thoughts and feelings.

Holistic & Integrative Approaches

Connecting mind, body, and overall well-being.

  • Holistic (Mind-Body-Spirit) Therapy
    Integrating emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of healing.
  • Hypnotherapy
    Using guided relaxation and focused attention to access deeper patterns and facilitate change.
  • Family Systems
    Exploring family dynamics and inherited patterns that may be influencing your current life.

Coaching, Assessment & Specialized Supports

Tools and approaches to support clarity, direction, and personal development.

  • Coaching & Integrative Guidance
    Goal-oriented support focused on clarity, accountability, and forward movement.
  • Myers-Briggs (MBTI) Personality Assessment
    A tool for understanding personality, communication styles, and personal tendencies.
  • Faith-Based Counselling (Optional) 
    Integrating spiritual or religious perspectives into therapy for those who value it.

Focusing Therapy

Focusing is a gentle way of self-exploration and therapeutic change. Focusing grew out of evidence-based research which has continued for more than 40 years.

Focusing arises out of a natural human process and brings direct access to bodily knowing. It can result in a deep, bodily-felt experience of change.

Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis is a form of focused internal attention. It facilitates intentional access to mental capacities that we may not be presently utilizing in helpful ways. Essentially hypnosis is the conscious use of deeper levels of consciousness to shape positive perceptions of ourselves and the world around us.

Thru the experience of hypnosis, we may be able to develop the capacity for self-hypnosis. This skill can be enormously beneficial to our well-being.

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing is a holistic approach to healing trauma. Somatic Experiencing was developed by Peter Levine and is based on the idea that trauma leads to dysregulation in the nervous system.

Some of the things this therapy can help with are depression, anxiety, PTSD, grief, insomnia, muscle tension, and indigestion.

Myers Briggs

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a relatively short, noninvasive, the self-report questionnaire used to measure and describe people’s preferences for how they like to get information, make decisions, and orient their lives.

The MBTI provides a useful measure of personality by looking at eight personality preferences that people use at different times.

Narrative Therapy

Narrative therapy [1] is a form of psychotherapy that seeks to help patients identify their values and the skills associated with them. It provides the patient with knowledge of their ability to live these values so they can effectively confront current and future problems.

The therapist seeks to help the patient co-author a new narrative about themselves by investigating the history of those values.

Family Constellations

Hypnosis is a form of focused internal attention. It facilitates intentional access to mental capacities that we may not be presently utilizing in helpful ways. Essentially hypnosis is the conscious use of deeper levels of consciousness to shape positive perceptions of ourselves and the world around us.

Thru the experience of hypnosis, we may be able to develop the capacity for self-hypnosis. This skill can be enormously beneficial to our well-being.