Attachment-based
Explores how early and current relationships shape safety, trust, and connection. This approach can help identify relational patterns and support more secure, compassionate ways of relating to yourself and others.
Treatment Approaches
Thoughtful methods, shaped around you.
Therapy can draw from several evidence-informed approaches. The method is chosen collaboratively based on your goals, preferences, context, and capacity.
How We Choose
The relationship comes before the technique.
No single approach fits every person or every session. We may use one framework consistently or draw carefully from several, depending on what helps you understand your experience and move toward your goals.
You are welcome to ask why an approach is being suggested, say when something does not fit, or request a different pace. Treatment remains transparent, collaborative, and responsive rather than formulaic.
Therapeutic Modalities
Ways of understanding and supporting change.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Looks at relationships among thoughts, emotions, physical responses, and actions. Together, we identify patterns that may be keeping you stuck and practise concrete strategies for responding differently in everyday situations.
Narrative Therapy
Separates you from the problems you face and makes room for stories that reflect your values, abilities, relationships, and lived context. It can loosen the hold of limiting labels and support a fuller view of who you are.
Person-Centered Therapy
Centers your experience, pace, and capacity for growth within a genuine, empathic, and nonjudgmental relationship. You remain the expert on your life while therapy provides reflection and space to explore.
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
Supports awareness, understanding, and transformation of emotional patterns. Rather than treating feelings as problems to remove, EFT helps explore what emotions communicate and respond with greater flexibility.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Approaches the mind as a system of protective and vulnerable parts, each trying to help in its own way. This framework can foster curiosity and self-compassion while easing internal conflict and strengthening a grounded sense of self.
Strength-Based Therapy
Builds from the knowledge, skills, relationships, and resilience you already carry. Therapy recognizes what has helped you survive and adapt, then works with those strengths to support your current goals.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Prioritizes safety, choice, pacing, and an understanding of how trauma affects the nervous system. The work can support stabilization and processing without requiring you to move faster or disclose more than feels manageable.
In Practice
Approaches are adapted, not imposed.
A strategy can be evidence-informed and still need adjustment for sensory needs, trauma history, culture, communication preferences, executive functioning, or the realities of your current life.
Transparent
You can understand what we are doing and why it may be useful.
Collaborative
Your feedback and lived knowledge shape the direction of therapy.
Flexible
The approach can change as your needs, goals, and capacity change.