In my view, most clients seek therapy when they feel alone in the face of overwhelming life challenges. Regardless of the approach, effective psychotherapy requires the therapist to understand and tune into what is therapeutically needed for the client to thrive. Sometimes clients need to expand their awareness of their inner experiences & life circumstances or develop greater emotional competence in coping with emotional distress (i.e. anxiety, shame, anger). Other times they need to find safety and resilience in facing a traumatic life event or find courage to bond deeply in an intimate relationship. An important part of therapy is to learn what's needed & help clients achieve that goal.

I am trained in the Contemplative Psychotherapy practices such as mindfulness and compassion studies, and integrate this work in all of our sessions. Using grounding exercises such as breath work, visualization and others, we will work towards creating skills that you can use outside the session. Please feel open to ask me more about these practices when we meet.

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.

The process of therapy helps people step back, and look at things through the lens of an objective observer. In this way, individuals start to see strengths within themselves. As they see these strengths, with a therapist's help, people begin to make gradual changes in their lives. Adults, adolescents, & children see me in my practice in downtown Toronto for individual, couples, and family counseling. Their problems include anxiety, stress, depression, parent-child conflict, marital distress, trauma, and grief & bereavement.

A psychodynamic approach to counselling focuses on patterns of relationship, often helpful in understanding how early experiences might be affecting you in the present. Especially helpful for untangling ‘baggage’ which may be holding you back in your current relationships and attitudes to others. Understanding how your current attitudes and ways of interacting with others are caught up in old hurts can free you to choose more constructive ways forward.

You can work through your life issues! Psychotherapy is different from counseling. Counseling is working with current life issues and discussing them, processing emotions, and creating action plans to improve issues. Psychotherapy is deeper healing work where we explore how your current life in various areas has potentially been impacted by your early life and your life until now, and the beliefs and schemas that you formulated through those. We work with both the past and present simultaneously to heel wounds that occurred, big or small, and how to transform those into shifted behavior in the now. We will work with your thoughts, your emotions, and your behaviors in a manner that is unique.

Psychotherapy helps people who are in distress. Sometimes childhood trauma or significant losses make mood regulation difficult. I help people from an attachment framework which means helping them feel more secure in themselves and relationships through increased self knowledge. Your anger, anxiety, panic or depression may be a sign for you to seek help. Relationship difficulties about whether to stay or leave or how to deal with present or past relationships can be the source of your distress. I will help you examine your life from the perspective of your significant relationships. All of us deserve to find greater satisfaction and love in our lives. Psychotherapy with me can help you.

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.

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.

I am here to validate your concerns and provide a safe and therapeutic environment to explore any issues that you may be concerned about. I offer individual sessions to adults who are concerned about their child and are in need if guidance and support to address any parenting concerns. My specialty is working with children and adolescents. Children and adolescents respond to my treatment approach. They understand that I am their advocate and I will fight for them to ensure that their needs are being met. It's important for parents who are seeking my services to understand that sessions are confidential. However parents are very much n integral part of the treatment process as well.

Psychotherapy is a term that covers a broad range of techniques and approaches. It is different from coaching, which tend to provide practical skill based approaches to change. I integrate both coaching and psychotherapy to get help my clients effect the changes they want in their lives. The tools and skills from both of these disciplines I base in the science of neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is an area of neuroscience that has taught us that our brain and its wiring is is not fixed, but it is malleable like plastic. Using the primary keys to neuroplastic change we build tools and sculpt our session together to get powerful, effective and long term change.

I am a big believer in tailoring my counselling approach to the individuals I support as well as meeting the service user where they are. There are lots of approaches or tools that we can try as two people working together. I feel it is important to allow people to be who they are. Motivational interviewing, CBT, Solution Focused, mindfulness and feminist approaches to counselling are the areas in which I have received training and these are the skills that I use in my practice.

Most people consider psychotherapy because they are in crisis and seek an intervention that will improve their lives. The issue may involve work or the recognition of recurring, destructive themes that prevent them from living out their dreams. I use a framework called Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, originating from Diana Fosha. It uses a model of attachment to establish a clear, supportive relationship that helps people feel safe enough to explore deeper issues and to know that they are not alone. I aim to help them reach inside themselves to deal with painful feelings, make way for the resilience and wisdom that reside in each of us and find the transformation we seek.