Effective therapy comes from a genuine partnership between you and the therapist, built on respect, empathy, and motivation to find solutions to the problems you are experiencing.

Client’s face pressures and challenges in life that can feel overwhelming, as relationships, jobs, parenting, school, can all feel they are each demanding more and more of our time and our resources, and accessing support can seem difficult and sometimes even shameful.

The road to making positive change involves working together to challenge and modify thoughts, behaviors, and circumstances, that keep us isolated, sad, anxious, angry, or confused.

Ultimately, through therapy we identify and reinforce your own strengths and support networks to improve emotional regulation, problem solving, interpersonal communication, self esteem, and self-validation.

While the journey with each client is individualized and draws upon the methodology that is most appropriate, the first step towards change is usually exploration. We review past events and significant relationships that have influenced and shaped the way we interpret the world around us, and how we have coped with and overcome challenges in the past.

We progress to identifying and modifying self-limiting thoughts and beliefs about ourselves and others. For this stage we use CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) tools, with their focus on understanding the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

For clients who thrive with more structure and formal skill building, DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) can help strengthen the ability to remain goal-driven in both actions and behaviors even as we experience emotional turmoil and distress. DBT uses worksheets and step-by-step instructions to teach mindfulness, tolerating distress, problem solving, and interpersonal effectiveness.

When working with couples, the Gottman methodology helps improve conflict resolution and strengthen emotional bonds, by resurfacing the affection and admiration underlying struggling relationship. We focus on promoting a positive perspective towards each other by minimizing destructive communication patterns, and engaging in exercises that emphasize healthy expressions of needs and desires.

And underlying all therapeutic work there is a continued emphasis on creating a space that ensures we feel physically and emotionally safe when we are at our most vulnerable.