Individual Therapy
If you’re seeking therapy for a healthy life and relationship, some questions to ask yourself are:
Are you noticing old patterns, habits or cycles that are holding you back from where you want to be?
Is unresolved trauma, depression and anxiety impacting your relationship with others and yourself?
Do you find yourself feeling more stressed and unable to attend to day-to-day life in the way you want?
Are you not sure where to start and feel lost and frustrated?
“You don’t think your way to a new way of living. You live your way to a new way of thinking.”
— Dr. David Schnarch
Therapy and counselling is a supportive process that allows a client to unpack and explore their belief systems, behaviours and challenges that get in the way of living in the present and interfere with happiness and connection.
No one is exempt from these experiences - this is a human being problem. We all have our ways of getting pulled back and washed through those waves.
I often hear clients say, “I don’t want to live in the past, I want to just forget and move on!”. It can be challenging when we are stuck in a cycle that feels hopeless and destructive. Many clients describe feeling shame and in their heads questioning everything.
Within the therapeutic relationship, we will collaborate and figure out the best plan on how to help you move forward. I will help you navigate your process of growth and choice every step of the way. This is especially useful for individuals who are healing from trauma, abuse, addiction, heartbreak, anger, stress and other challenges.
Clients share the following changes in their lives:
Feeling more in control and reduced shame
Able to regulate their emotions safely
Feeling more grounded and present
Feeling more satisfied in relationships and life
Connecting to healthy sexual desire, interest and expression
Experiencing life from a more curious, joyful and mindful presence.
Able to excel at work and have more of a work/life balance
Areas of Expertise
Sex Therapy
Sex therapy is not only limited to sexual issues with a relationship. It is common for people to attend by themselves. The purpose is to enhance an individual’s exploration and discovery of sexual intimacy with enjoyment and curiosity. Therapy can also help work through sexual trauma and other distress around sexuality.
Love Addiction
Love addicts allocate an unbalanced amount of time, attention and value to the person that they are addicted to (i.e., their “qualifier”), and this focus usually has an obsessive quality. It is not uncommon for love addicts to neglect themselves “in service to the relationship”. Self-neglect usually leads to resentment and anger, rather than intimacy and harmony.
Sexual Anorexia
This is where a person completely avoids having sex with their partner, shuts down any type of erotic touch, and is even unavailable to discuss the topic with their partner. Often, they will rationalize this with being “too busy” or “too tired” consistently, and withhold intimacy while holding their partner hostage in the relationship. They often hold the expectation of monogamy, yet contribute to stonewalling and being unavailable for the couple’s intimate and sexual life.
Compulsive Sexuality
Is a habitualized relationship with a mood-altering experience that often includes cycles of deprivation and excesses with sexual and relationship behaviour. Oftentimes, individuals find themselves living a “double-life” and are trapped in the web of lies they have told in order for their sexual activities to remain undiscovered.