Approach to Therapy

The therapeutic relationship is one of the strongest predictors of positive outcomes. That’s why we prioritize warmth, compassion, and genuinely showing up for our clients. We want people to feel at ease with us — we’re all just human beings at the end of it all, trying our best, every (sometimes very difficult) day.

We offer a space where you can show up in all of your humanity, however that looks, sounds, and feels for you. Our space is laid back, filled with curiosity, and free of judgement. We bring deep empathy, understanding, humour and our own humanity (when appropriate), as well as attunement, to help build trust. When we bring these qualities into therapy, we co-create a space where clients can build the safety to be vulnerable and bring their authentic selves.

We also recognize that no one exists in isolation. Our thoughts, feelings, behaviours, sense of selves, and ways we relate to others, are all shaped by the systems around us — family, community, culture, work, and broader social structures. Labeling “symptoms” and “disorders” suggests that you are disordered and that there is something wrong with you that needs to be fixed. We know that what are labelled in these ways are not individual issues, and are so often incredibly adaptive responses to incredibly difficult situations. Anxiety, depression, self-doubt, and patterns of relating to others develop as ways to cope, navigate, and even survive the world as we have known it.

As such, therapy isn’t about “fixing” people, but exploring how life experiences shape us. Together, we can work to uncover patterns, expand self-awareness, and identify and shift towards opportunities for healing and growth. Through this process, we hold space for both self acceptance and change. We honour the full, messy, complexity of being human, and support clients in ways that feel right for them.

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