My Approach
In my practice, I draw from a variety of therapeutic modalities, tailoring my approach to the unique needs of each client. By integrating different techniques, I can offer a personalized and flexible therapy experience that addresses the specific challenges and goals we identify together. Below are some of the modalities I use in my practice.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
​In my approach to psychodynamic psychotherapy, I work alongside clients to uncover the unconscious processes that shape their current feelings, thoughts, and behaviours. I believe that our past, especially early relationships, plays a crucial role in how we navigate the present. Together, we explore these past experiences to understand how they might be influencing your life today.
A key part of our work involves recognizing and understanding defense mechanisms—those automatic ways we protect ourselves from pain or conflict, often without even realizing it. In our sessions, the therapeutic relationship itself can become a mirror for these unconscious patterns, giving us a chance to explore them as they emerge.
The goal is to help you gain deeper insight into these underlying dynamics, fostering greater self-awareness and ultimately, more effective ways of coping with life's challenges. This process often takes time, as we gradually peel back the layers to get to the heart of what’s driving your current struggles.​
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Attachment
​​​As a therapist working through an attachment lens, I focus on how your early relationships—particularly with primary caregivers—have shaped your emotional patterns, sense of self, and ability to connect with others. Attachment theory teaches us that these early experiences form the foundation for how we relate to ourselves and others as adults. Whether you’ve developed a secure attachment or an insecure style—such as anxious, avoidant, or disorganized—these patterns can influence your relationships, emotional responses, and even your self-worth. Together, we’ll explore your attachment history and how it shows up in your current life. In our work, I’ll provide a safe, supportive space that models a secure bond, helping you process past wounds, regulate emotions, and develop healthier ways of relating. This process fosters deeper self-awareness, healing, and the capacity for secure, fulfilling relationships.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a structured, goal-oriented form of psychotherapy that focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns, beliefs, and behaviors that contribute to emotional distress or problematic behaviors. It is grounded in the idea that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected, and by changing one, we can influence the others. This approach is particularly useful for individuals who are only able to engaged in therapy for a brief period or who are in need of new coping strategies immediately - for example, women who are experiencing postpartum depression or anxiety.
Person-centered
A person-centered approach to therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, is a humanistic modality that emphasizes creating a supportive and nonjudgmental environment where clients can explore their feelings, thoughts, and experiences freely. This approach assumes that individuals have an innate capacity for growth and self-healing when provided with the right conditions.
Somatic
A somatic approach to psychotherapy focuses on the connection between the mind and body, recognizing that emotional experiences, trauma, and stress are often stored in the body as physical sensations, tensions, or patterns of movement. This approach integrates body awareness and somatic (bodily) practices into the therapeutic process to help clients release stored trauma, regulate emotions, and develop a deeper sense of self-awareness and well-being.
Mindfulness
A mindfulness approach to therapy integrates mindfulness practices and principles into the therapeutic process to help clients cultivate present-moment awareness, acceptance, and nonjudgmental observation of their thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations. This approach helps clients break free from reactive patterns and develop a greater sense of emotional balance and self-awareness.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) is a time-limited, evidence-based therapy that focuses on improving a person's interpersonal relationships and social functioning to alleviate symptoms of mental health conditions, particularly depression. It is based on the premise that psychological symptoms are often linked to difficulties in relationships and life transitions. By addressing these interpersonal issues, IPT helps clients reduce emotional distress and improve their overall well-being.
Strength-based
A strength-based approach to psychotherapy is a positive and empowering therapeutic framework that focuses on identifying, building, and leveraging a client’s inherent strengths, resources, and abilities to address challenges and achieve personal growth. Rather than centering on deficits, problems, or diagnoses, this approach emphasizes what is going well in the client’s life and how they can use those strengths to overcome difficulties and create meaningful change.
Trauma - Informed
A trauma-informed approach to psychotherapy is grounded in an understanding of the impact of trauma on a person’s emotional, psychological, and physical well-being. This approach prioritizes safety, trust, and empowerment, recognizing that many clients have experienced traumatic events that can affect their behavior, relationships, and mental health. It emphasizes creating a supportive environment where clients feel validated, respected, and safe to process their experiences at their own pace.
