Therapy isn't one-size-fits-all.
My approach is integrative, relational, experiential, empirically evidenced, and grounded in the belief that meaningful change happens through both understanding and experience.
I draw primarily from four therapeutic approaches: AEDP, DBT, IFS, and ACT. You don’t need to know what these letters mean, but if you’re curious there’s a little explanation of each below. I use these approaches as different lenses, choosing what fits you and what you need in the moment.
This integrative framework is what is happening in the background, but I promise, our sessions will feel like a natural conversation about what matters to you most.
AEDP
Healing through relationship and emotional experience
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is at the heart of how I understand emotional healing. It’s really about the phenomenon of how, when we feel safe enough to slow down and pay attention to our emotions, our nervous system knows how to move us toward healing. Learning to sit with emotions can be uncomfortable at first, but then you can experience relief, and eventually, you can develop a new sense of self.
ACT
Making room for what you feel while moving toward what matters
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on psychological flexibility. Rather than spending your life trying to eliminate difficult thoughts and feelings, we learn how to make room for them without allowing them to dictate your choices. ACT asks questions like:
What matters to me?
What kind of person do I want to be?
What do I want my life to stand for?
And then we'll work toward taking meaningful steps in that direction, even if difficult emotions come along for the ride.
DBT
Building skills for navigating difficult moments
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) offers practical tools for managing intense emotions, navigating relationships, and responding more effectively when life feels overwhelming.
Depending on what you need, we may work with mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, boundaries, and communication.
IFS
Understanding the different parts of you
Internal Family Systems (IFS) gives us a compassionate way of understanding the different parts of ourselves that develop in response to our experiences. Maybe you have:
a part of you that overthinks.
a part that people-pleases.
a part that shuts down.
a part that gets angry.
These are parts of you, but they are not all of you. We’ll seek to understand these parts, soften the internal struggle between them, and learn to lead with the compassionate, creative, calm, courageous part of you.