About OUR treatment Approach
Our primary goal is to help you reduce the degree of struggle in your life and find a path to greater enjoyment of your life and the people around you. Essential to our approach to both individual adult and couple therapy is to create a non-judgemental space and a structured process to explore thoughts, behaviours and feelings that are causing difficulties for you but which might be too complex or overwhelming to examine alone. Our approach is collaborative and places emphasis on tailoring treatment to your needs.
By talking out loud to someone trained to help you examine your challenges, it is possible to gain awareness of the ways in which you are stuck in old patterns that contribute to your struggles. We have been trained in and integrate several treatment approaches to assist you with this process including cognitive-behavioural, mindfulness, and emotion focused therapy. These approaches, described further below, all have an extensive body of research exploring their effects and we continue to train in all of these areas. The field of Psychology has developed considerably and we now have a lot of information and techniques we can offer people to assist with many of the ways in which they suffer.
What is Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy?
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, is a form of therapy that considers how a person’s thoughts (cognitions) and actions (behaviours) could be contributing to their struggles. The approach involves assisting a client to examine their thoughts and actions, and to engage in new ways of thinking and behaving that could lead to an improvement in their experience of life.
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness can be defined as a special form of awareness generated by paying attention to our here-and-now experiences. Modern psychology is increasingly making use of this long established approach to understanding our experience, particularly in the treatment of such conditions as stress, depression, anxiety and chronic pain.
What is Emotion Focussed Therapy?
Emotion Focussed Therapy involves accessing, identifying, differentiating and processing one’s emotional experience. While the process of better understanding our emotion can bring relief in itself, the approach can also involve help in examining how one might successfully communicate this better understanding of their emotions to the people in their lives.
Dr. Gordon Josephson, C. Psych.
Dr. Marie-Ève Bégin Galarneau, C. Psych.
Dr. Brahm Solomon, C. Psych.
Between stimulus and response there is a space and that space is our power and our freedom.
- Viktor Frankl, Psychiatrist