Therapeutic Modalities

CBT and DBT are evidence-based approaches that help you understand how your thoughts, emotions, and behaviours interact — especially during stress, anxiety, or low mood. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and building more supportive ways of responding. DBT adds skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, boundaries, and navigating intense emotions without feeling overwhelmed. These approaches are practical, structured, and empowering, especially when you want tools you can apply in daily life.

Parts work is based on the idea that we all have different “parts” inside us — like an anxious part, an angry part, a people-pleasing part, or a deeply wounded inner child part. Rather than judging or fighting these inner experiences, we work to understand them with compassion. IFS-informed therapy helps you build a more trusting relationship with yourself, unburden old emotional wounds, and feel more integrated from the inside out. Many clients find this approach deeply healing, especially for trauma, self-criticism, and relationship patterns.

“ There is a voice that doesn't use words, listen..."
— Rumi

Sometimes healing doesn’t happen through talking alone, especially when your body stays in survival mode. Polyvagal and somatic approaches focus on the nervous system: how your body responds to stress, threat, safety, and connection. In therapy, you’ll learn how to recognize your stress responses (fight/flight/freeze/shutdown), build tools to regulate and ground, and reconnect with your body in a safe way. This approach is especially supportive for anxiety, trauma, chronic stress, emotional reactivity, and feeling “stuck” or numb.

Interpersonal neurobiology and relational neuroscience explore how the brain, nervous system, and relationships shape emotional well-being. Many symptoms — anxiety, disconnection, shame, people-pleasing, or relationship struggles are often rooted in how the nervous system adapted to early relational experiences. This approach helps you understand your emotions and patterns through a brain-and-body lens, while using the therapeutic relationship as a safe place for repair. It’s both scientific and deeply human: therapy becomes a space where healing happens through connection.

Attachment-based therapy focuses on how your earliest relationships shaped your emotional needs, boundaries, and sense of safety with others. If you struggle with fear of abandonment, overgiving, feeling “too much,” shutting down, or repeating painful relationship patterns, attachment work can be transformative. Together we explore your relational blueprint, strengthen self-worth, and build secure attachment, not just with others, but also within yourself.