Our Treatment Approaches
There are actually several!
If you have found that you've been struggling to find a path to healing, then taking time to figure out why will strengthen your foundations. Our goal is to help our clients to achieve the meaningful changes they desire and hope for as rapidly as possible.
Every one of our therapists eventually develops a unique style of treatment. They draw from all (not limited to) of the following psychotherapeutic approaches that share some important common features: they are psychodynamic in orientation with emphasis on the promotion of healthy emotional experience to foster rapid, deep and lasting therapeutic change.
We offer “Integrative” individual therapy which is a progressive form of psychotherapy that combines different therapeutic tools and approaches to fit the needs of the individual client. With an understanding of normal human development, as integrative therapists we modify standard treatments to fill in development gaps that affect each client in different ways.
By combining elements drawn from different schools of psychological theory and research, integrative therapy becomes a more flexible and inclusive approach to treatment than more traditional, singular forms of psychotherapy.
Behaviour Therapy (CBT & DBT)
Behavior Therapy is a structured, action-oriented approach that helps you modify unhelpful behaviors and thought patterns that may be holding you back. Unlike therapies that focus heavily on the past, this method concentrates on your current difficulties and provides concrete tools to create positive change.
Identify Problem Behaviors – We’ll pinpoint actions or reactions that cause distress (e.g., avoidance, anger outbursts, compulsive habits).
Understand Triggers & Consequences – What situations set off these behaviors? What keeps them going?
Learn New Responses – Using evidence-based techniques, we’ll replace unhelpful patterns with healthier ones.
Practice & Reinforce – Through exercises and real-world application, you’ll build lasting skills.
This approach is ideal if you:
Struggle with anxiety, OCD, or phobias
Want to change specific habits (procrastination, self-sabotage)
Need structured, goal-focused strategies
Prefer practical tools over deep emotional exploration
Ready to take active steps toward change? Let’s work on building the life you want—one behavior at a time.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Could Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Be Right for You?
Psychodynamic therapy offers a space to explore parts of yourself that may be just beneath the surface—feelings, thoughts, and patterns that you might not fully understand but that still shape your life, relationships, and choices. Often, these unconscious processes show up most clearly in the therapy relationship itself, giving us a unique window into your inner world.
The term "psychodynamic" reflects the idea that our mind is always in motion—different parts of us pulling in different directions. You might feel caught between what you want and what you think you should do, or find yourself repeating patterns you can’t seem to break. Therapy helps you understand these inner tensions and work through them in a way that leads to lasting change.
In psychodynamic therapy, we might:
Help you understand and express your emotions more freely
Notice and explore areas where you may avoid certain thoughts, feelings, or topics
Identify patterns in how you relate to others—and to yourself
Make sense of how your past may be influencing your present
Focus on what happens between you and your therapist as a way of understanding other relationships in your life
Explore dreams, wishes, or fantasies that might hold deeper meaning
This approach can be especially helpful for people who:
Struggle with relationships or emotional intimacy
Experience anxiety, depression, or low self-esteem
Feel stuck in repeating life patterns
Are curious about themselves and open to deep self-exploration
Have tried other therapies and want to explore the underlying causes of their struggles
Experiential Dynamic Therapy (EDT)
Are you tired of talking about your problems without feeling real change? EDT is a powerful, emotion-focused therapy that helps you break free from old patterns by working directly with feelings in the moment—not just analyzing them.
Unlike traditional talk therapy, we:
Focus on what you feel (not just what you think)
Work with emotions as they arise in session
Help you tolerate and transform painful feelings
Unlock your natural capacity for healing
✔ Works quickly - Many notice changes in weeks, not years
✔ Body-aware - We track physical signs of emotion (tightness, shaking, etc.)
✔ Relationship-focused - Improves how you connect with others
✔ Active - I'll gently guide you beyond surface-level talking
EDT is especially helpful if you:
Feel "stuck" in therapy or life
Have anxiety, depression, or relationship struggles
Notice you intellectualize your feelings
Want deeper change than cognitive approaches offer
Ready to stop talking about change and start experiencing it? Let's explore how EDT can help you heal at the emotional roots.
Transference-Focused Therapy (TFT)
A Structured Path to Change
TFT is a specialized psychodynamic treatment that uses the therapy relationship itself to create lasting change. Rooted in object relations theory, it helps you:
Identify unconscious relationship templates shaping your life; Understand extreme emotional reactions at their source; Develop integrated, stable ways of relating to yourself and others
The TFT Difference:
Where other therapies focus on symptoms or skills, TFT uniquely targets the underlying structure of personality difficulties by working with emotions as they emerge in the moment between us.
The Process Simplified:
Assessment – Mapping your relationship patterns and emotional triggers
Therapy as a Mirror – Your reactions to me reveal unconscious blueprints from past relationships
Pattern Work – We'll examine and reshape distorted beliefs (e.g., "I must cling or I'll be abandoned")
Integration – Building consistent self-awareness and healthier ways of connecting
Who Benefits Most?
✓ Those with intense/unstable relationships
✓ People experiencing emotional whiplash (love/hate swings)
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Could Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) Help You?
ISTDP is a powerful, evidence-based form of therapy designed to help you get to the root of emotional and psychological struggles. It focuses on how our earliest emotional bonds—especially those that were strained or broken—continue to affect how we feel, cope, and relate to others throughout life.
When painful or overwhelming feelings from the past are triggered by current life events, we often react without realizing it—through anxiety, physical symptoms, or even shutting down emotionally. These automatic reactions can contribute to a wide range of issues, including:
Anxiety and panic
Depression
Unexplained physical symptoms (somatization)
Relationship difficulties
Addiction or substance use
Eating disorders
Personality-related challenges
In ISTDP, the therapist works closely with you to gently but directly explore what you're feeling in the moment. Together, you look at how you might unconsciously block painful emotions—and even connection with your therapist—as a form of self-protection. When those emotions are safely experienced rather than avoided, many people find that anxiety, physical tension, and other symptoms begin to ease.