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Our Therapeutic Approaches

🧩 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
  • Focus: Identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours.
  • Approach: Structured, evidence-based, and problem-focused. Helps clients reframe cognitive distortions and test new behavioural strategies.
  • Goal: Reduce distress, improve functioning, and build practical coping tools.
  • Best for: Anxiety, depression, phobias, stress, and behaviour change.
  • Focus: Emotional regulation, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness.
  • Approach: Integrates CBT with mindfulness and distress tolerance skills. Balances acceptance with change.
  • Goal: Build emotional stability and healthier relationships.
  • Best for: Borderline Personality Disorder, emotional dysregulation, trauma, and chronic self-destructive behaviours.
  • Focus: Re-authoring life stories to shift identity and meaning.
  • Approach: Externalizes problems (“the problem is the problem”) and helps clients reconstruct empowering personal narratives.
  • Goal: Build agency, self-compassion, and new perspectives.
  • Best for: Identity issues, trauma, low self-esteem, and life transitions.
  • Focus: Mindful acceptance and values-driven action.
  • Approach: Combines mindfulness, acceptance, and cognitive defusion techniques to enhance psychological flexibility.
  • Goal: Live meaningfully despite discomfort.
  • Best for: Anxiety, depression, chronic pain, stress, and avoidance.
  • Focus: Early attachment experiences and emotional bonds.
  • Approach: Explores attachment history and its influence on adult relationships; uses relational repair and emotional attunement.
  • Goal: Develop secure attachments and improve relational trust.
  • Best for: Trauma, relational difficulties, and emotional insecurity.

  • Focus: Strengths, resources, and forward-looking change.

  • Approach: Brief, goal-oriented; focuses on “what works” and exceptions to problems.

  • Goal: Create rapid, achievable improvements through strengths-based conversation.

  • Best for: Brief interventions, coaching, workplace issues, and short-term goals.

  • Focus: Relationship satisfaction, communication, and conflict resolution.

  • Approach: Draws from models like EFT and Gottman Method; fosters empathy, connection, and repair.

  • Goal: Improve communication, trust, and emotional intimacy.

  • Best for: Couples facing conflict, disconnection, or life transitions.

  • Focus: Family systems, roles, and relational patterns.

  • Approach: Uses systemic, structural, or strategic interventions to improve communication and functioning.

  • Goal: Strengthen relationships and resolve family conflicts.

  • Best for: Family conflict, parenting challenges, and adolescent issues.

  • Focus: Healing and integrating traumatic experiences.

  • Approach: Includes EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, and Trauma-Focused CBT; emphasizes safety, grounding, and body awareness.

  • Goal: Restore emotional regulation and reduce trauma symptoms.

  • Best for: PTSD, complex trauma, abuse survivors, accident or loss recovery.

  • Focus: Executive functioning, structure, and strengths-based growth.

  • Approach: Practical, skills-based, and collaborative. Helps clients with planning, time management, organization, and self-regulation through personalized strategies and accountability.

  • Goal: Enhance daily functioning, confidence, and goal achievement by leveraging strengths.

  • Best for: Individuals with ADHD or executive function challenges (adolescents and adults).

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Direct Counselling

In-person therapy sessions available in Coquitlam, BC, and surrounding areas including Port Moody, Port Coquitlam, and Surrey.

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