“Every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.” Hans Kung
Individual Therapy and Counselling
This is one-on-one counselling you may need at times of feeling down, discouraged, angry, stressed, or perhaps feeling stuck in your circumstances. I can work with you through your relationship issues, family of origin struggles, self-esteem concerns, depression, anxiety, and many other difficulties life may have thrown your way. Models of therapy include Emotion-Focused Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.
About Emotion-Focused Therapy for Individuals:
* works well with emotions rather than suppressing them
* differentiates between constructive and unconstructive emotions
* uses the power of emotions for positive change
* helps allow more positive emotionsLearn more at www.emotionfocusedtherapy.org
Couple Therapy and Counselling
As a Marriage and Family therapist, I primarily use Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to help you discover what is happening behind the stress and anger that both you and your partner experience when there is marital discord. I can help you recognize your familiar patterns and negative interactions that send you into a downward spiral, and help you learn to respond to one another with less anger, and greater empathy and insight. With EFT, as a couple you will be able to create a safe emotional connection so that when emotional stress hits, you will be able to reach for each other and support one another.
Whether you are looking to strengthen your marriage through life’s challenges, or to work on a relationship that is struggling with issues such as communication, intimacy, parenting, family of origin, infidelity or loss, I can help you gain strategies for change and improvement.
About Emotionally-Focused Therapy for Couples and Families:
* a short-term approach
* empirically reliable
* expands & reorganizes emotional responses
* creates new interactions and new relational patterns
* fosters the creation of a secure bond between partnersLearn more at www.iceeft.com and www.vcfi.ca
Family Therapy and Counselling
Family relationships are the most satisfying and fulfilling relationships and at the same time are potentially the most emotionally-charged and heartbreaking relationships. Even when there is a struggle between only two family members, all family members are affected. When it comes to family therapy, it is important to consider and work with the family as a whole as well as each dyadic relationship within the family. This can be between a parent and child/teen, in-laws, siblings, extended family, step-parenting/blended families, separation/divorce struggles such as co-parenting, and many other difficulties. I have specific training in Family Systems Theory as well as Emotionally-Focused Family Therapy and can work with you in seeing how small or large issues between any two or more family members affect the whole family.
It is preferable, that as many family members attend as possible.
Serving individuals, couples and families of the GTA, Greater Toronto Area, including the Communities of Thornhill, Richmond Hill, King City, Toronto, North York, Markham, Maple, Woodbridge, Barrie, Newmarket, Vaughan, Durham and York Region.