Services. 

Individual therapy is a place where you can work on personal challenges including relational, emotional or mental health difficulties. It is a place to build an understanding of yourself and the ways you interact with others. It can be a space to build skills to cope with the difficulties in your life, explore solutions to current life problems, process past trauma or process how past experiences continue to affect you in your current life.  Addressing relational challenges, building communication skills, boundaries and emotion regulation are also common areas of focus for therapy.  

Couple therapy focuses on addressing relational challenges and enhancing relational satisfaction. Couple therapy can be used as a space to address conflict, improve communication, build closeness or address areas that have affected trust and connection. Processing how trauma or family history is affecting the relationship can be explored. Couple therapy can also focus on exploring and addressing life experiences, challenges or changes that are affecting the couple relationship (i.e. mental health, addiction, illness, loss, parenting, etc.). 

Family therapy is used to address issues that are impacting the family as a whole including family conflict, loss, mental illness, physical health issues, behavioural difficulties and life transitions. When working with families, I use a systemic approach where I see the family as a working system that impacts and affects one another. The focus is not just on addressing the problem that brings you in but also exploring how other factors within the family are affecting and impacting the current family situation. Family therapy can be used to help improve family functioning, improve relationships and increase home life satisfaction.

I also conduct therapy specifically catered to children and adolescents. Addressing anger, anxiety, symptoms of depression, social difficulties, and processing trauma or loss are often reasons for children and adolescents to come for therapy. I use a variety of creative art modalities (art, drama, play) with children to help them process and address the difficulties they are experiencing. Please note that parental involvement is often a necessary part of the therapy process with children. This may include parents being a part of some sessions with the child or having separate sessions (without child present) to explore ways they can support their child. Parental involvement in therapy with adolescents (14 and above) is dependent on the adolescent's consent.