APPROACHES

Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a structured therapy that focuses on teaching four core skills (mindfulness, acceptance & distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness) to help you create a good life for yourself. You work on those skills through a series of lessons and then start applying them to your life. 

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy ― follows the principles and practices of Emotionally Focused Therapy to restore connection and promote resilience in family relationships. The principle goal of EFFT is to re-establish more secure family patterns where attachment and caregiving responses are effective and emotional bonds are repaired. These resources inform a network of security that provides the flexibility and closeness necessary for families to promote individual growth and meaningful relationships across generations. 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a structured, evidence-based, goal-oriented type of talk therapy that helps individuals manage their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to improve their well-being. CBT is based on several core principals including: issues of anxiety etc. are based, in part, on unhelpful ways of thinking, problems are based, in part, on learned patterns of unhelpful behavior, individuals can learn better ways of coping.

Acceptance and commitment therapy is an action-oriented approach to psychotherapy that stems from traditional behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy.  ACT aims to develop and expand psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility encompasses emotional openness and the ability to adapt your thoughts and behaviors to better align with your values and goals. 

Exposure and Response Prevention is a form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) primarily used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The exposure component of ERP refers to practicing confronting the thoughts, images, objects, and situations that make you anxious and/or provoke your obsessive thoughts. The response prevention refers to making a choice not to participate in compulsive behaviours even after the distress has started. The goal is to help individuals learn to tolerate the anxiety and distress associated with obsessions without engaging in compulsions

Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) is an evidenced-based therapy that focuses on improving mental health by addressing problems in relationships. Therapists help patients to solve an interpersonal crisis as a way of both improving their lives and relieving their symptoms. IPT helps patients to understand their emotions as social signals, to use this understanding to improve interpersonal situations, and to mobilize social supports. 

Somatic Therapy is a form of body-centered therapy that looks at the connection of mind and body and uses both psychotherapy and physical therapies for holistic healing.  Practitioners of somatic therapy address what they see as a split between the body. The therapist works from the understanding that the mind and body are intimately connected, though not always in apparent ways, thoughts, emotions, and sensations are all interconnected and influence one another. 

Expressive art therapy is a therapeutic practice that utilizes creative mediums such as: painting, drawing, poetry, dance and other forms of art. Creative expression can support individuals in exploring and gaining awareness into their thoughts, emotions and experiences while they communicate in non-verbal ways. 

Mindfulness-based interventions emphasize being present and aware of thoughts, feelings, and sensations without immediately reacting or trying to change them. This approach can be particularly helpful for managing stress, anxiety, and depression by increasing awareness of one's internal and external environment, promoting a sense of equanimity, and reducing reactivity.

Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy  is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, and which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems.