Psychotherapist-provided trauma-informed treatment customized to your needs

 Do you find yourself wondering why you respond the way you do? Your actions, thoughts and even your feelings often don’t align with the person you either want to be or even know yourself to be? You find yourself repeating the same patterns, feeling trapped in a loop? I work from the position that we start out with unlimited potential and then “life happens”, our experiences don't all process, making us more reactive, often feeling like we are the mercy of our emotions, thoughts, and actions. 

Many therapies focus on coping strategies and symptom reduction, which can feel like  plucking the head off a dandelion, and we all know how that goes. You may get some short-term relief, but then, before you know it… the $#@ dandelion is back. I will work with you to strike a balance between some short-term relief and figure out how to dig out the roots of those dandelions.  I view the issues, symptoms and even diagnoses that have led you to seek a therapist as signposts that point us back to the roots which is where the bulk of our work will be focused. 

The tools we will use to help you heal:

• Our therapeutic relationship!
• Psychoeducation  - As a psychotherapist I have learned a lot about what impacts our well being and will share!
• Trauma-informed treatment approaches for counselling adults,  like Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), The Flash Technique and EMDR 2.0, Somatic Integration and Processing (SIP), and The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP).