Psychotherapy Methods
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) aims to improve mental health by challenging and changing negative beliefs, behaviours, and improving emotional regulation.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
DBT is an evidence-based psychotherapy that has proven to be effective treating emotional distress, mood disorders, suicidal ideation, self-harm, substance abuse, and Borderline Personality Disorder.
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR utilizes “bilateral stimulation” to unlock traumatic memories locked in the brain which activate the “fight, flight or freeze” response. EMDR releases the hold traumatic memories can have on a person and frees them from the symptoms of trauma and PTSD.
Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)
Internal Family System, or IFS, is an evidence-based psychotherapy which has been proven to be effective for treating various conditions including depression, anxiety, panic, fears and phobias, chronic pain, as well as improving generals functioning and well-being.
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
EFT attempts to help people look inside themselves and better understand their own emotions. A compassionate stance toward your own emotional experience can occur through honesty and transparency.
Somatic Experiencing (SE)
A nervous system based modality which helps to discharge traumatic stress from the body. As sensations and movements are tracked, blocked and frozen energy is released allowing for greater vitality.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT can help you to discover and connect to your inner values and how to live them out mindfully in everyday life. ACT is especially helpful for people who want to free themelvse from rigid belief systems.
Neurofeedback & Biofeedback
An innovative form of technology, Neurofeedback harnesses the brain’s neuroplasticity in order to facilitate improvement with a variety of symptoms such as ADD, anxiety, trauma and concusions. This non-medicine approach trains the brain to function optimally therby improving attention, mood, and learning abiltiy.
Creative Arts Therapy
Creative Arts Therapy, through music, art, drama and play, can help integrate thoughs and emotions as the brain creates new ways of making meaning and helping a person feel more integrated and whole.
Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT)
Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT), a therapeutic modality incorporating the use of light, color wavelengths, and brainwave entrainment to rapidly transform emotional distress and related physical pain into a positive emotional state.