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Psychotherapy is offered to parents and children. Keystone focuses on understanding attachment relationships and helps clients develop an understanding of how attachment impacts both our behavior and our children's behaviors. Solution-focused counseling and cognitive behavioral therapy are utilized to provide practical strategies to meet clients goals.

I have extensive experience providing evidence-based treatment for trauma and emotional dysregulation, offered exclusively through secure virtual care. In our work together, I focus on teaching you practical psychological skills that you can use in everyday life—tools to calm overwhelming emotions, manage stress, and build healthier, more stable relationships. I also draw on proven approaches such as trauma-focused therapy, EMDR, and skills training from DBT. These methods are highly effective online, offering the same benefits as traditional in-person treatment.

It is strange to think that by talking about issues you can feel better, but this is the nature of talk therapy, otherwise referred to as psychotherapy. Psychotherapy works due to the abilities we have as humans to change our perceptions, access our feelings, and use the adaptive information process systems of the heart, mind and body to make changes. Psychotherapy works when you have found the correct time in your life to attend, the therapist with whom you have a significant therapeutic relationship, and you are doing a therapeutic method that fits your personality and worldview.

Using a personalized approach tailored to you, I help you discover what you need to flourish. As an engaged and empathetic listener, I provide a caring, supportive space to experiment and experience changes in action, thoughts, and belief. With access to a variety of techniques from several different models for therapy (CBT, DBT, IPT, REBT, Rogerian), people seeing me have consistently experienced greater life and relationship satisfaction.

Often we know what we need to do differently, it's not that we don't have the wisdom, it's that it can be hard to apply! Doing Psychotherapy with me is a gentle and compassionate process of uncovering and tending to the old wounds and patterns that can be steering our behaviour and leading us astray. This frees up the space to live in the present with mindfulness, and create the future that we dream of!

Contrary to popular psychology, believing that just the right psychological theory, intervention and technique will act like a health-care “magic pill” that can make one’s worries suddenly disappear is mistaken. Most of the therapeutic change that happens during psychotherapy is due to the therapeutic alliance: rapport, relationship and resources. Rapport is about the connection the client and therapist feel for each other. Relationship is about the constructive cognitive/emotional exchanges and trust that a client and therapist build up over time. Resources are about how the therapist helps the client activate their existing emotions, thoughts and behaviours in service to healthy change.