Our Treatment Approaches
There are actually several!
If you have found that you've been struggling to find a path to healing, then taking time to figure out why will strengthen your foundations. Our goal is to help our clients to achieve the meaningful changes they desire and hope for as rapidly as possible.
Every one of our therapists eventually develops a unique style of treatment. They draw from all (not limited to) of the following psychotherapeutic approaches that share some important common features: they are psychodynamic in orientation with emphasis on the promotion of healthy emotional experience to foster rapid, deep and lasting therapeutic change.
We offer “Integrative” individual therapy which is a progressive form of psychotherapy that combines different therapeutic tools and approaches to fit the needs of the individual client. With an understanding of normal human development, as integrative therapists we modify standard treatments to fill in development gaps that affect each client in different ways.
By combining elements drawn from different schools of psychological theory and research, integrative therapy becomes a more flexible and inclusive approach to treatment than more traditional, singular forms of psychotherapy.
Behaviour Therapy
Behavior Therapy is a structured, action-oriented approach that helps you modify unhelpful behaviors and thought patterns that may be holding you back. Unlike therapies that focus heavily on the past, this method concentrates on your current difficulties and provides concrete tools to create positive change.
Identify Problem Behaviors – We’ll pinpoint actions or reactions that cause distress (e.g., avoidance, anger outbursts, compulsive habits).
Understand Triggers & Consequences – What situations set off these behaviors? What keeps them going?
Learn New Responses – Using evidence-based techniques, we’ll replace unhelpful patterns with healthier ones.
Practice & Reinforce – Through exercises and real-world application, you’ll build lasting skills.
This approach is ideal if you:
Struggle with anxiety, OCD, or phobias
Want to change specific habits (procrastination, self-sabotage)
Need structured, goal-focused strategies
Prefer practical tools over deep emotional exploration
Ready to take active steps toward change? Let’s work on building the life you want—one behavior at a time.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic psychotherapy focuses on those aspects of self that may be unknown (i.e., unconscious processes), especially as they show up in a therapeutic relationship.
"Psychodynamic" refers to the idea that different parts of our mind are always in movement and that this may result in conflicts; for example, conflicts about whether or not to act on an impulse, urge or desire.
Distinguishing techniques and processes of psychodynamic psychotherapy include: (1) focusing on affect and the expression of the clients' emotions; (2) exploring clients' attempts to avoid topics or engage in activities that the obstruct therapeutic progress; (3) identifying patterns in actions, thoughts, feelings, experiences, and relationships; (4) emphasising past experiences; (5) focusing on interpersonal experiences; (6) placing an emphasis on the therapeutic relationship; and (7) exploring dreams, wishes, or fantasies
Experiential Dynamic Therapy (EDT)
Are you tired of talking about your problems without feeling real change? EDT is a powerful, emotion-focused therapy that helps you break free from old patterns by working directly with feelings in the moment—not just analyzing them.
Unlike traditional talk therapy, we:
Focus on what you feel (not just what you think)
Work with emotions as they arise in session
Help you tolerate and transform painful feelings
Unlock your natural capacity for healing
✔ Works quickly - Many notice changes in weeks, not years
✔ Body-aware - We track physical signs of emotion (tightness, shaking, etc.)
✔ Relationship-focused - Improves how you connect with others
✔ Active - I'll gently guide you beyond surface-level talking
EDT is especially helpful if you:
Feel "stuck" in therapy or life
Have anxiety, depression, or relationship struggles
Notice you intellectualize your feelings
Want deeper change than cognitive approaches offer
Ready to stop talking about change and start experiencing it? Let's explore how EDT can help you heal at the emotional roots.
Transference-Focused Therapy (TFT):
A Structured Path to Change
TFT is a specialized psychodynamic treatment that uses the therapy relationship itself to create lasting change. Rooted in object relations theory, it helps you:
Identify unconscious relationship templates shaping your life; Understand extreme emotional reactions at their source; Develop integrated, stable ways of relating to yourself and others
The TFT Difference:
Where other therapies focus on symptoms or skills, TFT uniquely targets the underlying structure of personality difficulties by working with emotions as they emerge in the moment between us.
The Process Simplified:
Assessment – Mapping your relationship patterns and emotional triggers
Therapy as a Mirror – Your reactions to me reveal unconscious blueprints from past relationships
Pattern Work – We'll examine and reshape distorted beliefs (e.g., "I must cling or I'll be abandoned")
Integration – Building consistent self-awareness and healthier ways of connecting
Who Benefits Most?
✓ Those with intense/unstable relationships
✓ People experiencing emotional whiplash (love/hate swings)
Ready to explore your relational patterns at their root?
Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP)
ISTDP is a form of brief psychotherapy, which seeks to understand psychological problems by looking at attachment and the emotional effects of broken attachments. When later life events stir up feelings, anxiety and defences may be activated. A proportion of all patients with anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and interpersonal problems have this emotional blockage. These unconscious processes can lead to negative health effects in every system in the body, including the gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular system, respiratory system, immune system, muscular system, and skin.
This often means focusing on the feelings you have in the session and pointing out the ways you might block off both the emotions and the connection with you therapist in treatment. When these feelings are experienced, tension, anxiety, and other physical symptoms and defences decrease.
This treatment and variants of it have been extensively researched and shown to be effective with some patients with depression, anxiety, somatization, substance abuse, eating disorders, and personality problems.