Psychodynamic therapy (often known as insight therapy), is a thoughtful awareness raising approach that helps you better understand yourself on a much deeper level by looking at the roots of how you operate, who you are and why. It moves past surface-level symptoms and gentle explores how past experiences, relationships, and patterns shape your current thoughts, emotions, and behaviours which can often be outside of our awareness. In session you and your therapist work together in a safe, supportive space to notice recurring themes in your life, reflect on emotional experiences and make meaningful connections between the past and present. Psychodynamic therapy focuses on using insight to create lasting change by helping you understand why you feel or react in certain ways and gives you the freedom to respond differently.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a gentle, well researched and effective therapy that helps your brain process and heal from difficult or stressful experiences. Sometimes when something upsetting happens it gets stuck in the brain, showing up as anxiety, strong distressing emotions, negative thoughts, and or unpleasant physical reactions. EMDR helps your brain sort through these experiences so they feel less overwhelming and more settled. EMDR doesn’t require revisiting the painful experience or talking through the details of a trauma. The focus is on back and forth eye movements, gentle tapping and or listening to alternating sounds to help the brain reprocess how the experience is held in your mind, making memories feel less intense, a calmer body and more positive beliefs. EMDR helps increase control and help you feel lighter, more at ease and better able to move past the trauma.

Somatic Experiencing is a gentle, body focused approach to healing that helps to process and release the effects of stress, trauma and overwhelm. Instead of focussing on thoughts and memories, Somatic Experiencing pays attention to physical sensations, like tension, breathing, and subtle body cues to support the nervous system in finding balance. In sessions, you’ll be guided to notice what’s happening in your body to help you build awareness, resiliency and a sense of safety. This approach is especially helpful if you feel stuck, numbed out, anxious, overwhelmed or disconnected from yourself. Somatic Experiencing doesn’t require you to relive difficult experiences but centers on helping your body complete and release stored stress and trauma, to allow for greater ease, stability and well being in your daily life.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a practical, structured, goal oriented approach that helps to understand how thoughts, feelings and behaviours are connected. It focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking habits and reaction patterns that may be keeping you stuck. In sessions you will work collaboratively to build skills that help manage irrational thoughts and beliefs, anxiety, low mood, stress or self doubt by developing more balanced ways of thinking, problem solving strategies and tools you can use in everyday life.

Trauma Informed Therapy is a framework that recognizes how past experiences, especially those that felt traumatic or unsafe, can impact how you feel, think, or relate to others now. It prioritizes physical and emotional safety, trustworthiness, choice, and empowerment to avoid re-traumatization while fostering emotional regulation, peace, and healing.

Attachment Based Therapy helps individuals understand how early relationships and connections with caregivers shape the way we connect with others, emotionally regulate and how we connect with our selves. Patterns of relating formed in childhood can influence how we experience trust, closeness, and emotional safety in our current relationships as well as our own self-worth. Attachment Based Therapy focuses on creating a safe, trusting therapeutic alliance to repair emotional wounds, reduce anxiety, grow healthier more fulfilling interpersonal bonds while feeling more connected, secure and confident in your sense of self.

The Grief Recovery Method is a compassionate, step by step approach that helps you move through the emotional pain of loss. Grief can result from many experiences, not only death, but also changes in relationships, health or important life roles; through this approach you will be guided to explore your unique experience of loss, identify  what feels unfinished and take meaningful steps toward emotional completion. The focus is not on “getting over” grief, but on finding practical ways to carry it with less pain, more peace and gain more clarity.

Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) is a goal-directed, therapeutic intervention where animal friends are incorporated into the therapeutic process to support emotional healing and connection. Interaction with animals can help create a sense of comfort, safety and warmth, making opening up and engaging in therapy easier. In sessions, our animal helpers are present as calming companions, helping to reduce stress, ease anxiety, support emotional regulation, lower cortisol levels, and support emotional regulation. Animal Assisted Therapy is especially helpful if you find comfort in animals or feel more at ease connecting in their presence.

Play Based Therapy is a gentle, developmentally appropriate approach to healing that helps children express their feelings and thoughts through play. Since children often communicate more naturally through play than words, this approach uses toys, games, and creative activities as a way for them to process experiences, feelings and make sense of their world. Play Based Therapy supports children with anxiety, big feelings, behavioural concerns, emotional regulation, life transitions which guides them to feel more confident, understood and secure.

Art Therapy is a supportive approach that uses the creative process to help express thoughts and feelings that can be difficult to put into words. It isn’t about artistic skill, it’s about using art materials like paint, clay, markers or crayons to gain insight and reduce stress in a calm, non-judgmental space. This practice offers a fun, creative way to process your experiences an find a sense of balance at your own pace.

Sand Tray therapy is a nonverbal, therapy technique that uses a sandbox, toys, and sometimes water, to create real scenes that reflect a person’s inner thoughts, struggles, and concerns. This form of therapy is done alongside talk therapy, using the sandbox and toys as communication tools. Sand tray work can be used with those who have dealt with trauma, neglect, or abuse. Not just for kids, this can be very beneficial for youth and teens!