Approach & Services
Counselling
Counselling is an active, collaborative process where we work together to identify and address the emotional patterns behind your symptoms, such as anxiety, low mood, relationship difficulties, and maladaptive coping strategies like substance use or disordered eating. These patterns are often hidden, but once brought to light, they can be resolved.
In our work together, we will focus on:
Identifying the emotional roots of your anxiety and low mood
Breaking through self-critical thoughts and negative beliefs that reinforce your symptoms
Resolving internal conflicts so you can express healthy anger and be assertive in relationships
Processing past trauma to increase you present emotional safety and calm
Working through grief and unresolved losses
How I work
With over 20 years of clinical experience, I use a focused, direct approach to help you confront the emotional blocks that keep you stuck. I offer clear, actionable feedback that helps you recognize the patterns that are holding you back. The work we do together, rooted in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), is designed to bring relief by addressing the emotions that drive your symptoms. This isn’t just talking about your problems—this is about experiencing and working through the emotions that you’ve been avoiding.
We may also incorporate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques to shift the thoughts and behaviors that reinforce your symptoms. However, the main focus will always be on helping you build emotional awareness, process difficult feelings, and break free from self-sabotaging patterns.
To make our time together as effective as possible, we’ll look closely at the specific situations causing you distress. By addressing concrete examples, we can quickly pinpoint the underlying issues and work toward resolution. Most clients find that within a few sessions, they have a much clearer sense of what is leading to their symptoms, and the path they need to take to change. Symptoms can meaningfully improvewithin a few sessions, so you won’t have to wait long to start feeling better.
The Benefit
After participating in counselling, people often experience feeling calmer, happier, and are better at coping. People describe being able to experience their feelings without getting anxious or overwhelmed by them. People also describe feeling better about themselves, and being able to experience others more accurately and having more satisfying relationships. Ultimately we are working to help you change the way you relate to your feelings, so that after therapy, when symptoms like anxiety or worry come up, they are no longer confusing and seemingly random and you can work through them on your own.