OUR APPROACHES
Our therapists draw on a wide range of evidence-informed approaches, tailored to what actually works for you. Explore the modalities our RSWs and RPs use most, from CBT to EMDR to Compassion-Focused Therapy.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps you accept difficult thoughts and feelings and commit to actions that align with your personal values.
Anti-oppressive practice names the impact of systemic inequality and oppression on your mental health as part of the therapeutic work itself.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how your early relationships shaped the way you connect with people now, helping you build healthier, more secure relationships.
Brief Solution Focused Therapy is a short-term, goal-oriented approach that focuses on building solutions and using your existing strengths rather than analyzing the problem.
Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) improves family communication and problem-solving to help resolve a child or teen's behavioural difficulties.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps you spot the thought patterns shaping how you feel and act, and gives you practical skills to challenge unhelpful thinking.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) helps you identify and shift unhelpful beliefs connected to a traumatic experience, using a structured, time-limited process.
Compassionate Inquiry is a therapeutic approach that uses curious, non-judgmental questioning to help you notice how past experiences and unmet needs still shape your reactions today.
Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) uses compassion-based exercises to help you reduce self-criticism and shame and build a calmer, more supportive relationship with yourself.
Culturally responsive therapy is an approach where your therapist actively accounts for your culture, identity, and lived experience as part of understanding and supporting you.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) blends cognitive-behavioural skills with mindfulness and communication tools to help you manage intense emotions and connect more easily with others.
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) strengthens emotional bonds between family members to build more secure attachment and communication at home.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a short-term couples therapy approach that focuses on adult attachment, helping you understand and rebuild trust and connection in your relationship.
Existential Therapy focuses on meaning, free will, and self-determination, helping you confront life's bigger questions and live with more purpose.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a structured therapy that helps you process distressing memories, most often trauma, using guided eye movements.
Family Systems Therapy views one person's challenges as part of the larger family relationship network, working to improve dynamics for the whole family.
Feminist therapy examines how gender, power, and social context contribute to your mental health, working collaboratively with you rather than treating you as the sole source of the problem.
Gestalt Therapy focuses on your present-moment experience and personal responsibility, helping you work through unresolved issues shaping your current life.
The Gottman Method is a research-based couples therapy approach that helps partners manage conflict and strengthen their emotional connection.
Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation and focused attention to help you work with habits, fears, or patterns that are hard to shift through talking alone.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapy approach that helps you understand your different internal 'parts,' like the part that people-pleases or shuts down, so they can work together instead of against each other.
Interpersonal Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT) helps stabilize your mood by building consistent daily routines for sleep, meals, and activity alongside relationship support.
Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) is a short-term approach that improves your relationships and emotional well-being by addressing communication and relational patterns.
Mindfulness in therapy helps you focus on the present moment without judgment, building self-awareness and emotional regulation.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) combines mindfulness meditation and gentle movement to help you notice and manage stress reactions rather than getting swept up in them.
Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative technique that helps you explore mixed feelings about change and strengthen your own motivation to move forward.
Narrative Therapy uses your own stories to help you separate your identity from your problems and reconnect with your values and skills.
Polyvagal-informed therapy uses Polyvagal Theory to help you understand and work with your nervous system's automatic stress responses, like shutting down or feeling on edge.
Prolonged Exposure gradually and safely helps you confront trauma-related thoughts and situations you've been avoiding, reducing their emotional power over time.
Psychedelic integration helps you process and apply the insights from a psychedelic experience to your everyday life in a supportive, talk-therapy setting.
Psychodynamic therapy explores your unconscious mind and past experiences to understand how they shape your current behaviour and feelings.
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) helps you identify and challenge irrational beliefs to build healthier, more adaptive ways of thinking and responding.
Schema Therapy helps you identify and shift deeply ingrained patterns that started in childhood and still shape your current thoughts, behaviours, and relationships.
Self-compassion work in therapy helps you replace self-criticism with the kindness and understanding you'd naturally offer a friend.
Solution Focused Therapy is a goal-directed approach that uses structured questions to help you envision your future and identify the resources you already have to get there.
Somatic therapy works with the mind-body connection, using body-based techniques like breathing, grounding, and movement to help release stress and trauma held in the body.
Strength-based therapy focuses on your existing strengths and resourcefulness, helping you use what you already have to work through challenges.
Trauma-focused therapy centers the impact of a traumatic experience on your well-being, helping you process it, build coping strategies, and strengthen resilience.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT) combines CBT techniques with trauma-specific tools to help you process a difficult past experience and build coping skills.
Voice of the Child is a family-therapy approach that centers a child's own feelings and perspective, helping them feel genuinely heard within the family process.
