I believe that many of the issues that are causing difficulty today once served an adaptive purpose. A trusting therapeutic relationship can help you understand the role that these patterns once played and the ways they may be impacting your life today. Therapy can help you relinquish these no-longer needed patterns and help you develop new ways of responding to life's inevitable adversities.

I use different approaches to therapy depending on a client's needs. The main approaches I use are psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), existential, and trauma-informed practices. Depending on your needs, therapy can be either short-term or longer-term. Short-term therapy is usually aimed at relieving symptoms, coping with stressful situations or adjusting to life changes. Longer-term therapy usually addresses more long-standing issues. These can include the after-effects of trauma, PTSD, recurrent depression, difficulties relating to others, and low self-esteem. Psychotherapy can lead to improvements in symptoms, increases in self-esteem, and an increased sense of agency in one’s life.