Therapy Modalities
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT helps you notice and accept painful thoughts or emotions rather than fighting them. Instead of focusing on changing your feelings, we support you in acting in ways that reflect your values.
Clients often find this approach helpful for building flexibility, staying present, and creating a meaningful life even in the face of challenges.
Attachment Based Family Therapy (ABFT)
Attachment Based Family Therapy offers family based mental health care to assist with improving the mental health of adolescents and young adults suffering from depression. ABFT is an empirically based, attachment, and trauma informed practice. This emotion focused model of therapy focuses on rebuilding a sense of connection and trust, improving communication, problem solving, emotional regulation, and repairing ruptures in the child and parent relationships. A family commitment of between 14-20 sessions is required.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Many of our struggles in adulthood stem from early experiences with caregivers. Attachment-based therapy helps you understand how those relationships shaped you and how they influence the way you connect with others today.
This approach is especially helpful for improving self-worth, navigating intimacy, and building secure, healthy relationships.
Behavioural Activation
Increasing engagement in rewarding activities of existing hobbies and interests that bring a sense of accomplishment, mastery and pleasure. Creating activity schedules and tracking progress is important to reduce avoidance behaviours, build momentum, gain positive reinforcement, and motivation.
Expressive & Art Therapy
Expressing oneself creatively assists in working through personal challenges, expressing emotions, and gaining self-awareness. Integrating the arts can be
particularly helpful if someone has difficulties finding words to express their feelings as it allows a free-flow of unconscious thoughts which are then expressed creatively or alternatively it can be a good fit for someone who loves the arts! Creative expression may include movement, collage work, drawing, sculpting, or journalling.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT focuses on the connection between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. You’ll learn to identify unhelpful patterns, reframe negative thinking, and experiment with new behaviours.
It’s a practical, goal-oriented approach backed by research and commonly used to treat anxiety, depression, and OCD.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
When emotions feel overwhelming and it’s hard to cope in the moment, DBT offers practical tools to help you stay grounded and in control.
This structured, evidence-based approach blends acceptance and change, helping you build distress tolerance, manage intense emotions, improve relationships, and stay present when life gets hard.
With DBT, you don’t just learn to survive emotional storms; you learn how to ride the waves with strength and self-awareness.
Developmental Model for Couples
The Couple’s Institute Developmental Model created by Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson views relationship challenges as part of the natural developmental process. This approach integrates attachment theory, neuroscience, and views challenges as opportunities for individual and relational development and growth.
Clients often find this model helpful for improving intimacy, communication, and emotional maturity within the relationship.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
EFT helps couples and individuals create stronger, more secure emotional bonds. It’s especially useful for working through recurring arguments, emotional disconnection, or fear of abandonment.
This approach helps you express needs safely, respond to your partner with empathy, and build trust.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
The Gottman Method is a research-based approach that helps couples strengthen friendship, manage conflict, and build lasting intimacy. It’s structured around communication tools, emotional connection, and rebuilding trust.
Couples appreciate this method for its clear strategies and proven results.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS is based on the idea that we all have different parts within us — some that protect, some that carry pain, and some that feel more like our core self.
This approach helps you get to know and heal those parts in a compassionate, non-judgmental way.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Mindfulness helps you develop awareness and presence in the moment, which can ease anxiety, improve emotion regulation, and reduce reactivity.
You’ll learn practical skills for slowing down, tuning into your body, and responding with intention rather than impulse.
Narrative Therapy
Your problems are not your identity. Narrative therapy helps you separate yourself from the stories you’ve been told or have internalized, so you can re-author your life in a way that reflects your strengths, values, and hopes.
This modality is especially helpful for clients exploring identity or recovering from trauma.
Neuropsychotherapy
Neuropsychotherapy brings together neuroscience and psychology to help you understand how your brain responds to stress, trauma, and healing. It offers practical, brain-based strategies to support emotional and behavioural change.
Clients often find this helpful for understanding why they react the way they do — and how to shift those patterns over time.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy helps you explore how unconscious patterns and past experiences shape your current behaviours and emotions.
By bringing insight to the surface, you can start to shift long-standing dynamics and feel more in control of your choices.
Psychoeducation
Psychoeducation involves learning about mental health, trauma, emotions, or relationships in a way that empowers you. By understanding why you feel or behave a certain way, you gain clarity and self-awareness that support healing.
We often weave psychoeducation into sessions to help you feel informed and equipped.
Relational Psychotherapy
Relational therapy emphasizes the importance of connection and the therapeutic relationship itself as a space for healing. It’s grounded in the belief that we are shaped in relationships, and that we can also heal in them.
This approach is helpful for exploring trust, vulnerability, and interpersonal dynamics in a safe, supportive space.
Relational Life Therapy (RLT)
RLT is a bold, honest approach to transforming relationships, starting with taking full ownership of your part.
Created by Terry Real, this method blends direct feedback with deep compassion to help couples break out of blame, defensiveness, and disconnection. You’ll learn how to speak with love and truth, repair ruptures, and shift unhealthy dynamics into something more balanced and respectful.
Psychobiological Approach to Couple’s Therapy (PACT)
PACT helps couples feel safer, closer, and more connected, not just in words, but in body and brain.
Grounded in neuroscience and attachment theory, this approach looks at how each partner’s nervous system responds to conflict, closeness, and stress. You’ll learn how to co-regulate, respond with care instead of reactivity, and build a relationship that feels secure at its core.
PACT isn’t just about solving problems. It’s about creating a bond that feels truly safe, attuned, and lasting.
Psycho-Spiritual Coaching
Spiritual Counselling has an expanded view of life, recognizing that the world is a complex mystery taking into account the concept of spiritual beliefs, the soul, higher-self, subconscious states of awareness, and the Heart of existence. A focus is on tapping into one’s own personal authenticity, inner wisdom, with the guidance of spiritual teachings. An integrative approach is utilized based on the needs of each person, consisting of Gestalt Therapy, Jungian Therapy, Psychosynthesis, Buddhist Philosophies, meditation, movement, breath work, talking, guided imagery, and expressive arts to explore and express relationship to self, other and the world.
Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy recognizes that trauma and emotion live not just in the mind, but in the body. This approach helps you tune into physical sensations and use body-based practices to release tension, increase regulation, and restore a sense of safety.
It can be especially powerful for clients navigating trauma, anxiety, or chronic stress.
