Find a Therapist in London, Ontario.

People often come to therapy to get rid of painful and difficult feelings. Rather than getting rid of our feelings, therapy is a skilled process of helping us understand ourselves so we can use our feelings to navigate our lives. Even the very painful feelings hold vital information for us to become sure-footed in our life. Just like in martial arts, we use the momentum of the attacker and redirect it to ensure our safety ; in therapy we use the information from the painful feelings to clarify what we need to create more safety in our lives so we can thrive. It's a valuable process of allowing our feelings to work for us to create satisfying joyful lives.

I primarily use Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) to support individuals, couples and families to get the supportive relationships they need to be safe, secure and grow in life. EFT is designed to provide opportunities to express vulnerable emotions to loved ones so that one can be clearly understood and valued by the most important people in your life. Even in individual therapy, there are powerful techniques used to safely access unacknowledged (often painful) emotions in connection to oneself and others. EFT is based on our knowledge of the importance of close bonds with others and has over 20 years of research that verifies its success. Call me for a confidential consult.

Using talk-based therapy and psychotherapy modalities such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Ego State Interventions with EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Gestalt Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and clinical hypnotherapy, among others, I help individuals, couples, and families understand their feelings, moods, and behaviours to improve their overall well-being.

Nancy's approach to psychotherapy is person-centered and strength-based. She offers a safe space to explore your concerns and support to work through the issues that you need to resolve in order to move forward in your life. Nancy sees you as the expert, and she works with you as a partner on your journey. Nancy is a warm, caring and compassionate woman with over twenty five years experience working with individuals, couples, groups and families. She has worked with children, youth, adults and seniors. She offers services to the LGBTT community, as well as the general population. She works from a health promotion perspective, and addresses systemic forms of discrimination.

Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in a positive manner. Its aim is to help people understand the thoughts behind feeling anxious or depressed and addressing these thinking patterns. Psychotherapy will help you change behaviors and habits that are limiting you, to experiencing your fullest potential.

As a psychotherapist, I believe the relationship that develops between client and therapist is one of the most important factors in achieving a positive outcome in therapy. I encourage you to use the relationship we build with each other as a place to discover your self and experiment with change. I provide you with a safe, warm and confidential setting for you to open up and share the stories of your life. While we explore the many areas of your past and current life struggles, we also pay attention to present opportunities for growth.

I utilize Relational Psychodynamic Therapy in counselling sessions, maintaining an awareness on how my relationship with the client affects her/him and how the client is affecting myself as therapist. These can be very helpful clues to understanding relational patterns in a client's life, making it possible to then explore these patterns and find avenues to create healthy relationships and a balanced self.

My goal is to understand how your unique experiences have helped to shape who you are, including how you think and feel about yourself. I am strength based and solution focused therapist and have been privledged to witness the post traumatic growth of my clients. Together we will focus on what's working, including sensations of calm and stillness in the body.

Psychotherapy with me involves understanding how your life (family, trauma, relationships) has created beliefs, fears and sensitivities that affect your emotions, thought patterns and choices today. We will work together to enhance your awareness of and ability to cope with emotions triggered in the present. I use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and EEG Neurofeedback to achieve your goals for healing and wellness.

Humans are hard-wired for connection and safety. Working from a somatic experiencing lens allows for gentle re-negotiation of pain points in your life that in turn bring about more capacity to handle difficult body sensations and emotions. When more safety is found in the body, the greater the ability to incorporate self-compassion strategies that bring about more connection within the self and with others. The goal is to create a mental wellness practice that serves you as an individual. Mental health doesn't have an end goal, so working together to create practices that help in the long term is one of the goals of psychotherapy with me.

My role as your therapist is to assist you to explore, reflect and accept yourself. From the safe haven of therapy you probe what you feel, know and maybe fear. It is an in-depth conversation with me but even more with yourself. Through this you reach new perspectives: awareness, feelings, thoughts, intentions plus better understandings of what has happened in your life. From there you can make changes towards healthier actions - calmer and in a more balanced, assertive position in relation to others and yourself. Such personal learning can certainly be done without a therapist - they just assist. Like hiring any consultant, it should certainly be you who is in charge of this journey.

Anybody can do counselling, but it takes skill to be a therapist. Clients who come to me find they do most of the talking. My role is to listen, try to understand what you are thinking and feeling, and reflect that understanding back to you. I want you to feel deeply heard. I want you to feel someone cares. I do not give you solutions. Rather, I help you find them within yourself.

Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in a positive manner. Its aim is to help people understand the thoughts behind feeling anxious or depressed and addressing these thinking patterns. Psychotherapy will help you change behaviors and habits that are limiting you, to experiencing your fullest potential.

Are you considering life changes? Psychotherapy can provide the support and guidance you need to lower your stress and increase your confidence. You can feel more comfortable in your own skin. Couples and individual sessions will be tailored to best fit your current needs and to foster healthier relating with those you care about. My approach is warm and practical with a guiding style to support you in your efforts towards better relationships and better personal functioning. Email leah@couplehealth.ca and let's get started. You deserve to feel better now.

Some people avoid counseling because of stigmatization and fear of the unknown. By using the Bio-Social model it allows a full assessment which will guide the therapy in a structured manner and give the individual a goal to work towards. As well it allows me to start therapy where the individual is by building trust and understanding while giving them alternatives to acceptance and change. There is no more guessing or wondering what to expect because you are the driver of the vehicle and I am a passenger who will ask questions that may help guide you onto better things. Therapy sessions provides the individual an opportunity to become aware of their own well-being.

Psychotherapy, ie, “psychodynamic”, differs from counselling or ‘coaching’: focus and goal is deeper "structural" personality/'self' changes; more about ‘how to be’ for life vs ‘what to do’ in specific situations (although this does happen). It engages one on 'core' emotional-sensory levels, exploring hurts, confusion, strong negative reactions, troubled relationships, that derive from traumas and neglect (eg, abandonment, violence, family disruptions) that occurred at vulnerable childhood stages and have become ‘internalized’. I apply this perspective to empower clients by fostering awareness about inner states and processes that interfere with affirmative ‘agency’/choices and vitality.

Looking for a longer term approach to working through difficulties? As with counselling, psychotherapy involves a therapist and client working together to develop effective coping mechanisms and improve functionality; unlike counselling, psychotherapists dig deeper, exploring patterns of behaviour that have lead to where a person finds oneself in life.

My Psychotherapy practice is dedicated to offering women, couples and those involved with WSIB compassionate, flexible and affordable counselling. This is a safe space where you will be heard and understood, where you will not be judged; a place where you can discover inner peace, growth, joy, and begin to heal and recover. My experience working in community agencies, women's shelters and as a Medical Social Worker have provided me with the skills and heart to help you find hope, and increase your coping. Please visit my website for more information at www.MSWtherapist.com.

At Everyday Self Counselling, I provide psychotherapy services to individuals, families, couples, and groups in London, Ontario and surrounding areas. In my private practice, I offer a compassionate, understanding, and safe place to work through the barriers that are holding you back and preventing you from experiencing the everyday joys in life. I am passionate about helping adolescents, teens, and adults with a wide variety of concerns and specialize in the treatment of anxiety, depression, and stress.

Psychotherapy can provide valuable support when recovering from crisis; when you feel stuck in your life; at a major crossroads; in mid-life change; career and family pressure and stress; suffering burnout; trying cope with with depression and anxiety; needing wisdom to navigate workplace issues or close relationships. Sessions involve a confidential, safe space to talk with an individually tailored combination of practical, emotional, psychological and spiritual well-being interventions. We explore what your psyche is telling you and engage the wisdom it has to offer for guiding you through, in your own way and time. The focus is on gentle, impactful change and personal growth.

I've heard a lot of people tell me that they thought "therapy was only for crazy people". It's not. Psychotherapy can keep you from going crazy! Having a trained professional to assist you in making sense of your life can be a very "un-crazy" thing to do. Besides, the process can actually be fun and enjoyable. In additon, I offer body-oriented psychotherapy which integrates the awareness of the body in helping you to manage intense emotions or physical symptoms.

Psychotherapy provides an opportunity to explore the challenges you are facing in a safe, non-judgmental space. As you share your experiences, we will be looking for adaptive and maladaptive patterns of thinking, feeling and/or behaving to move in a more helpful direction. I may ask questions that lead to better understanding of your current struggles and potential solutions. Increasing awareness and understanding of emotions and body sensations may also help to live a more integrated and authentic life.

Although I have training in many different modalities of treatment, I believe strongly that the critical factor in deciding which approach to use, is you. My approach in integrated, so while the theory may guide some of my thinking and planning about how to help you, your own wisdom, experiences, and capacities help me to develop strategies that you can learn in the counselling room, and then put into practice in the real world. Safely. Thoughtfully.

I have been providing psychotherapy since 1996. Through psychotherapy, I have been able to help individual, couples and families to address their challenges/problems and achieve their therapy goals. My approach is client-centred, solution-focused, and using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques. Through psychotherapy, I can help you to improve your thinking, feelings and/or behavior.

I practice from a relational psychoanalytic perspective while using interpersonal neurobiology to inform my work which looks specifically at the dynamic interplay between the mind, brain and relationships. Focusing on the psyche/mind, brain and relationships, allows us to have a better understanding of how these interact to shape us and our experiences which then provides a window that allows us to truly understand the nature of our challenges and ultimately provide us with the tools necessary to adequately manage them.