Find a Therapist in Waterloo, Ontario.

Personal growth and exploration can bring us greater peace and serenity. You can learn to "choose " the rides or evnets that you paricipate in. Through reflective converstions, active listening and jorunalling you can gain a clearer picture of the life you want and how to create it. Change becomes a positive choice and lfie becomes more joyous. Life becomes calmer. Tamara invites you into this conversation about your hopes and dreams.

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 is a valuable process of allowing our feelings to work for us to create satisfying joyful lives.

Individual psychotherapy is a strong point for Rhonda. She draws on many evidence-based techniques and approaches to ensure that people are guided through a healthy process of self-discovery and growth. She addresses the full range of problems, engaging a useful level of psychological testing and making referrals as necessary and appropriate. Her approach is gentle and clear.

Talk therapy can be helpful, but sometimes isn't enough. Awareness, growth, healing and empowerment can happen on many levels: emotionally, physically, psychologically, energetically, spiritually and relationally. The Refuge's approach is holistic and integrative, a combination of mind-body, somatic, mindfulness, emotion-focused, solution-focused, cognitive-behavioural, expressive arts, and nature-based traditions, etc. Our team of psychotherapists is unique in the region, and emphasizes trauma healing and resolution, emotion regulation, relationship repair, and touch/table work, grounded in neuroscience, somatics and attachment theory: www.healingrefuge.com

My masters program was called Spiritual Care & Psychotherapy. I had 3 years previous to that in a counselling undergrad that focused heavily on building a spiritually integrated foundation for theoretical approaches with clients. During those formative years developing as a professional and discovering who I wanted to be as a counsellor, I realised that I was made to serve and model with high integrity, a compassion for my clients that would stand out in their lives; that I had the privilege to be a small seed along their journey to well being. I look forward to walking with you, building a wonderful relationship through the hard times and the celebration of successes. You are worth it!

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.

I believe that the key to successful psychotherapy is the development of a positive therapeutic relationship between the client and therapist. My approach to therapy is strengths-based and multi-faceted—drawing on techniques from Narrative Therapy, Family Systems Therapy, Attachment Theory, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. I believe that there is ‘more going right with a person, than wrong’ and that the work we do together is to find and explore the strengths and supports that you already have, as you work on the issues that brought you to therapy.