Brief Therapy and Symptom Management
 

I  employ interventions from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) to help clients learn to manage symptoms over a brief course of therapy, usually lasting 10 to 12 sessions. In these modalities, the emphasis is on developing skills to manage symptoms and minimize distress in order to increase functioning across various domains (i.e., academic, social, and professional).

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Insight and Emotion-Focused Therapy
 

I also practice  a more Psychodynamic-oriented therapy that borrows elements from Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Attachment Theory, and Internal Family Systems. Sometimes this therapy can be brief or unfold over  longer period of time.  Sessions can occur on a weekly or intermittent basis depending on the client’s stated goals and needs. Psychodynamic psychotherapy involves examining the quality of one’s past relationships and how they affect their characteristic ways of relating to self and others. It involves learning to identify long-standing patterns in one’s life and generating new experiences that align with one’s values and needs. The purpose is to bring unconscious needs, dynamics, patterns to the forefront of one’s awareness using the therapeutic relationship as the primary vehicle for change.