The overarching goal of psychotherapy is to come to understand our emotions and use them in helpful ways for our lives. Beyond settling distress and reducing acute symptoms, psychotherapy outcomes can involve building self-acceptance, resilience, agency, emotional regulation skills, relationship skills, or arriving at a clear sense of self. For example, this might involve recovering from trauma, resolving the emotional patterns that produce depression and anxiety, or working through grief and loss.
My approach combines developing insight with building emotional skills and relational capacities. The principle underlying this approach is that by understanding the emotional patterns that occur within yourself, in your relationships, and in your daily life, we can gain an understanding of what you need and what strategies can help. My approach is trauma informed and integrates psychodynamic, neuropsychological, Gestalt, Emotion Focused, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy perspectives. I practice relational psychotherapy, which means the therapeutic relationship is used as a source of information, and I also draw on information from dreams when relevant.
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