My Approach
My work is grounded in evidence-based theoretical orientations.
I facilitate a collaborative space where you can draw on your inner strengths and resilience to move through your journey towards clarity, healing, personal transformation, and ultimately, a deeper fulfilment in your life.
I use, and highly value attachment and somatic orientation tools for trauma, anxiety and depression, as the foundation of my therapeutic framework.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Attachment theory highlights the importance of the relationship between a child and their caregiver in early years for optimum social and emotional development.
These early experiences in childhood greatly influence and shape the relationships patterns in adulthood. Exploring attachment style; therefore, provides the opportunity to transform attachment injuries into healing.
With the advances in neuroscience and understanding brain plasticity, we have the power to change unhealthy and destructive relationship patterns into constrictive and more effective behaviours that would promote more fulfilling and nurturing relationships.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP)
SP is a gentle somatic approach that addresses unresolved trauma and attachment issues in order to promote healing. The body has great wisdom and is a vital source of information that can guide assessing and processing of challenging experiences. Traumatic experiences disrupt body sensations, emotions, and thoughts and alter sensory perceptions, posture and movement.
SP is grounded in neuroscience and attachment research; it utilizes cognitive methods, neuroscience research, attachment theory through somatic approaches to work with these symptoms and to reconnect and reintegrate mind and body. This fosters curiosity and self-awareness and allows the wisdom of the body to guide the natural movement towards integration of trauma and attachment injuries.
It helps you learn how to regulate hyper-arousal, numbing and dissociation and helps you process your thoughts, and emotions in a new way.
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MY WORK IS ALSO INFORMED BY THE FOLLOWING
THEORETICAL ORIENTATIONS:
Client Centered
Strength-based
Mindfulness-based
Culturally Sensitive/multicultural
Cognitive Behavioural (CBT)
Acceptance & Commitment (ACT)
Emotionally Focused
Gottman Method
LGBTQI+ Allied