My Approaches & Modalities
Therapy is not one-size-fits-all. The ways we adapt, relate, and protect ourselves are shaped by our unique experiences, relationships, and environments. My approach to therapy is integrative, interpersonal, and trauma-informed, drawing from evidence-based modalities (such as those listed below) to support effective change.
Rather than focusing only on symptom relief, our work together looks at the deeper patterns underneath by helping you better understand yourself, process difficult emotions, strengthen relationships, and build new ways of responding to life’s challenges.
Relational & Depth Work: Understanding Yourself and Your Relationships
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps us understand how emotions organize connection, conflict, and closeness in relationships. We look at the cycles people get caught in, and what sits underneath reactions like withdrawal, protest, or shutdown.
Attachment theory informs much of my work, offering a framework for how early relationships shape expectations of safety, trust, and emotional closeness in adulthood.
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) focuses on processing emotion in real time, within a safe therapeutic relationship. It supports access to core emotions that may have been avoided or contained, allowing for deeper emotional integration.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps us understand the different “parts” of the self, such as protective, critical, or vulnerable aspects, and how they develop in response to life experiences. This can support greater self-understanding and less internal conflict.
Relational-Cultural therapy emphasizes the role of connection in healing, including how relationships shape identity, self-worth, and emotional wellbeing over time.
Existential therapy focuses on the deeper questions that often arise during times of loss, transition, or emotional struggle, such as identity, freedom, responsibility, and what it means to live a “good life”. This can involve exploring feelings of emptiness, uncertainty, grief, or disconnection, and making space to reflect on what feels most important to you moving forward.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) my work by offering skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and navigating intense internal states. This can be especially helpful when emotions feel overwhelming, reactive, or hard to manage in relationships or daily functioning.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) supports developing psychological flexibility, learning how to relate differently to difficult thoughts and emotions, while staying connected to what matters most to you. Rather than trying to eliminate discomfort, the focus is on making space for it while still moving toward meaningful action.
In couples work, I draw from more structured approaches such as the Gottman Method to help identify communication patterns, reduce conflict cycles, and support more effective repair and connection in relationships.
In work related to addictions, self-harm, and eating disorders, I take a Harm Reduction and non-judgmental approach. This means meeting you where you are, focusing on safety, stability, and reducing risk, while supporting authentic change at a pace that feels sustainable.
Skills & Regulation Work: Tools for Emotional Stability and Change
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