Trauma leaves a psychological and somatic imprint on us. Years after events have passed the body continues to respond as if the danger is still present.

As a result, I focus on not only understanding the connections between our trauma and our lives, but also on transforming how the mind, body, and soul remember our trauma.

My compassion-focused approach is impactful, especially during periods of great challenges when we can often find ourselves struggling with shame and criticism, which makes emotional regulation difficult.

Integrating self-compassion training into therapy helps you develop and work with experiences of inner warmth, safety and learning to self-soothe.

Mindfulness has been clinically proven to be beneficial to mental health. Bringing mindfulness into therapeutic approaches can enhance positive results.

Mindfulness techniques can provide grounding for dealing with difficulties, can help with distress tolerance and emotion regulation. They can also improve one’s awareness of triggers related to substance use, eating disorders, suicide ideation, and trauma.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a unique empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behaviour change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. You learn how to make healthy contact with thoughts, feelings, memories, and physical sensations that have been feared and avoided.

DBT is therapeuticl model that is adpated from CBT and is for those who experience very intense emotions. It’s a common therapy for people with Borderline Personality Disorder and is also helpful for those who have difficulty managing and regulating their emotions.

DBT helps people learn healthier ways to cope.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a transformative evidence-based therapeutic model that views each of us as having distinctive internal parts that have needed to adopt certain beliefs and roles as a way to help us navigate our world.

Our inner parts contain valuable qualities and our core Self knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole. In IFS all parts are welcome.

Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has been shown to increase happiness, overall fulfilment, general wellbeing, life satisfaction, and motivation, while decreasing both stress and anxiety.

It posits that we have control over our feelings, and behaviours, which are primarily governed by the thoughts we think in our day-to-day lives.

CBT is action-based, including eye-opening exercises during sessions and homework during the week and in-between sessions.

Walk & Talk therapy incorporates therapeutic interactions with walking in nature. Research shows that interacting with nature provides growth, improvement in mood, energy, and motivation towards recovery.

It is meant to invigorate the physical body, while exploring the mental landscape in a way that can improve nervous system function and emotional regulation. There is evidence that having regular access to the outdoors decreases feelings of isolation and improves self-awareness and consciousness.

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Emotion Focused therapy (EFT) is a short-term therapy that is used to improve attachment and bonding in adult relationships.

This treatment can help couples and family members form a more secure emotional bond, which can result in stronger relationships and improved communication.

Emotion focused therapy can benefit couples who are struggling with conflict, distress, and poor communication.

EFT has many strengths as a therapeutic model. First, it is supported by extensive research based on attachment theory. Second, it is collaborative and respectful of clients. It shifts blame for the couples' problems to the negative patterns between them, instead of the couples or individual partners themselves.

There is a substantial body of research outlining the effectiveness of this treatment. It is now considered one of the most (if not the most) empirically validated forms of couples therapy.

While often used in couples therapy, EFT can also be helpful in individual therapy and family therapy.

With individuals, this approach can help people improve emotion-related problems. It can also help family members form more secure bonds with one another.