What We Do

Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)

Emotion-focused Therapy (EFT) is designed to help people identify, express, regulate, make sense of and transform emotion. Emotions tell us what is important to us in a situation and acts as a guide to what we need or want. This, in turn, helps us to figure out what actions are appropriate. The goals of EFT are to help people become aware of and express their emotions, learn to tolerate and regulate them, reflect on them to make sense of them and transform them, making productive use of their emotions.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

The goal of the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy is to heal our inner family system by healing the wounded parts of ourselves so that we can approach ourselves and the world with more compassion and curiosity. IFS-trained therapists use questions, suggestions, and active listening to guide clients through the process of getting to know their inner family system and healing their wounded parts.

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IFS is premised on the idea that instead of being only one person, we all hold multiple people within us—a core Self and multiple co-existing internal parts (or subpersonalities) that relate to each other in the same ways that members of a family might relate to one another. Just like a family, our internal system can be supportive and loving, or toxic and destructive.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

Mindfulness focuses on becoming aware of moment-to-moment experiences and all incoming thoughts and feelings are accepted instead of attaching to or reacting to them. The goals of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive therapy are to interrupt the automatic processes of the mind (usually distorted thoughts and feelings) and teach a person how to accept and observe thoughts and feelings without judgement; to respond to thoughts and feelings through reflection.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive-behavioural therapy is a therapy that assumes that maladaptive, or faulty, thinking patterns cause maladaptive (unhealthy) behaviour and "negative" emotions. Maladaptive behavior is behavior that is counter-productive or interferes with everyday living. CBT treatment focuses on changing an individual's thoughts (cognitive patterns) in order to change his or her behaviour and emotional state.

Solution Focused Brief Therapy
(EAP Clients)

Solution Focused Brief therapy is a short goal-directed and collaborative approach to helping a person change. The goals of Solution Focused Brief therapy are to focuses on addressing what clients want to achieve (goals) by exploring the history of the problem through a series of questions and developing effective solutions to that problem based on searches for "exceptions" in the person's experiences, times when that person's goals already happened to some degree.