Our Therapy Approaches
Healing begins with compassion and giving ourselves a break. This journey doesn’t have to be walked alone. Our evidence-based therapies provide clinical expertise, while our holistic approaches keep us grounded, fostering real, meaningful progress toward balance and growth.
We prioritize person-centred and ecological approaches, recognizing the deep connection between mental well-being, self-discovery, and the world around us. Through a collaborative and supportive process, we honour each individual’s path to healing.
Evidence-Based Therapy Approaches
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based treatment designed to help individuals process and heal from traumatic experiences. By using guided eye movements or other forms of bilateral stimulation, EMDR allows the brain to reprocess distressing memories, reducing their emotional intensity and impact.
This approach fosters resilience, emotional regulation, and long-term healing.
Often helpful for:
Trauma, PTSD, anxiety, emotional triggers, early life experiences
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) provides tools to shift your relationship with these experiences. Instead of fighting against them, ACT encourages you to acknowledge and accept them, creating space to focus on what truly matters to you. By clarifying your values and committing to actions that align with them, you can build a life of purpose and meaning, even amidst challenges.
ACT helps you develop psychological flexibility, allowing you to navigate life's ups and downs with greater ease and resilience.
Often helpful for:
Anxiety, burnout, chronic stress, identity exploration, life transitions
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Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a client-centered, collaborative counseling approach designed to enhance intrinsic motivation for behavioral change. Rather than providing direct advice, MI utilizes strategic communication techniques to explore and resolve ambivalence, fostering a partnership between the counselor and the individual.
By employing principles such as reflective listening, open-ended inquiry, affirmations, and summaries, MI facilitates the client's discovery of their own reasons and resources for change, promoting autonomy and self-efficacy.
Often helpful for:
Behaviour change, habit formation, ambivalence, self-directed growth
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Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a practical approach that focuses on connecting thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. It recognizes that negative thought patterns can contribute to emotional distress and unhelpful actions. You'll learn to identify and evaluate these thought patterns in CBT, challenging their accuracy and developing more balanced perspectives. This process helps to modify emotional responses and behavioural tendencies.
By developing these skills, individuals can gain greater control over their emotional well-being and develop more effective coping strategies for everyday challenges.
Often helpful for:
Anxiety, depression, stress, perfectionism, ADHD
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Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a collaborative and optimistic approach that emphasizes identifying and utilizing existing strengths. Rather than focusing on deficits, SFBT empowers individuals to recognize their resources and develop solutions.
This therapy is designed to be brief and goal-oriented, promoting positive change through practical strategies.
Often helpful for:
Goal setting, stress, relationship concerns, navigating transitions
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Walk and Talk Therapy is a form of counselling that takes place outdoors while you and your therapist walk side by side. Often referred to as walk and talk therapy, this approach is grounded in nature-based therapy principles and combines therapeutic conversation with gentle movement in a natural setting.
For many people, being outside can reduce stress, support emotional regulation, and make conversations feel more natural and less pressured than sitting face to face.
Often helpful for:
Anxiety, stress, overthinking, emotional regulation, life transitions, grounding and nervous system support
Foundational and Holistic Perspectives
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A person-centred approach honours your unique experiences, strengths, and goals. Rooted in empathy and collaboration, this approach creates a safe, supportive space where you feel heard, valued, and empowered. Rather than a one-size-fits-all method, we tailor therapy to your needs, fostering self-discovery, resilience, and meaningful growth at your own pace.
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The ecological perspective acknowledges that a complex interplay of environmental systems shapes individual development and behaviour. These systems, ranging from immediate interpersonal relationships to broader cultural contexts, are interconnected and exert reciprocal influences. Understanding an individual necessitates considering the dynamic interactions within and between these systems, recognizing that changes in one level can cascade and impact others.
This framework emphasizes the importance of contextual factors in shaping human experience and behaviour. It's like you're a plant; all those things are soil, sunlight, and rain. Change one thing, and it changes how you grow. It's about seeing the whole picture, not just one little piece.
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is like tuning into the quiet rhythm of nature within yourself. Through gentle practices like meditation and breath awareness, you learn to observe the ebb and flow of thoughts and feelings, much like watching the tides. It's about grounding yourself in the present moment, like a tree rooted in the earth, allowing you to weather life's storms with greater calm and clarity. You cultivate an inner stillness, finding peace in the natural cycle of your own experience.
Indigenous Holistic Healing
Indigenous Holistic Healing (IHH) is rooted in the traditions of Indigenous Peoples and recognizes the deep connection between mind, body, spirit, emotions, community, and land. These practices are culturally specific and practiced within Indigenous communities.
We approach this work with respect, cultural sensitivity, and an awareness of its origins, while remaining open to exploring how holistic principles may support your personal healing journey.
