Deciding to seek therapy often comes from suffering painful emotions, anxiety, or destructive life patterns.
I can help clients navigate difficult and painful circumstances, including relationship issues, overwhelming emotions, addiction, and grief.
Treatment Areas
Anxiety Counselling
Helping clients with anxiety disorders, I first focus on targeting negative thinking patterns. These patterns are rooted in early established negative core beliefs.
Cognitive restructuring is an evidence-based treatment that helps my clients reframe their thinking and create new neuropathways.
Depression Counselling
Central to overcoming depression is helping clients reconnect with their unique meaning and purpose. This is done through an exploration of their values and reconnecting with themselves.
It is important that clients understand what the disease of depression actually is and how depression has impacted their lives. I instil hope that, although it takes effort, depression is treatable.
Addiction Counselling
Helping clients with diverse addiction issues, I assess the roots of the addiction, from substance misuse to process addictions (e.g. Internet, shopping, exercise).
I reject a one-size-fits-all approach and create a tailored treatment for my clients, using harm reduction in the treatment planning.
Personality Disorders Counselling
If you have received the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) or if you have come to recognize that you meet the criteria for the disorder on your own, you most likely feel overwhelmed. The overwhelm is often the result of feeling hopeless; recognizing how these symptoms have negatively impacted your life and damaged relationships.
BPD is treatable. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is evidence-based treatment for this disorder. The first and most important aspect of the treatment is validation of your suffering to date. DBT treatment will increase your understanding of the disorder and you will become motivated for treatment recognizing that change is necessary. Treatment for BPD will give you the missing skills needed to help you navigate life and relationships more skillfully and with less suffering. There is hope!
