I use a psychodynamic approach to learn how your past experiences and relationships have shaped your current strengths and challenges. This approach can help uncover limiting beliefs, distorted thought processes, and emotional processes that might be keeping you stuck.

In practice, this looks like having deep conversations about your personal history, including your childhood, your family dynamics growing up, and impactful relationships and events throughout your life. A psychodynamic approach helps explore the different patterns and aspects of your life and self that could use attention.

I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help untangle the feedback loops between beliefs, thoughts, emotions, and behaviour that are keeping you stuck. CBT helps root out and shift negative beliefs and cognitive distortions in order to improve mental well-being and change problematic cycles in our lives.

I have training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for both couples and individuals. EFT is a modality that can help clients improve deep-seated patterns in their relationships, emotions, and sense of self. It's an experiential approach that gently guides the client(s) through their challenging emotional and communication patterns to learn new, healthier ways of handling them and connecting with others.

Polyvagal theory is a framework that helps us understand how our body's nervous system responds to stress, trauma, and social interactions. It explores how feelings of safety and threat influence our emotions, behaviours, and motivation for social connection. Polyvagal theory also helps clarify how trauma and difficult experiences shift our body's automatic responses, and how we can shift them back toward feelings of safety.

Polyvagal theory can help us gain insight into our own reactions and coping mechanisms, and learn what we need in order to feel safe.