THERAPEUTIC APPROACH
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Trauma-informed care understands and responds to symptoms that are commonly experienced by survivors of trauma. Using a trauma-informed lens helps to reduce the risk of re-traumatization during the therapeutic process.
Alberta Health Services. (2020). Enhancing Concurrent Capability Toolkit: Comprehensive Assessment.
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People-centred care ensures an individual’s values, social and family circumstances, goals, and lived experiences are integrated and reflected within the therapeutic process.
“People-centred care is about doing things with the individual, rather than doing things to an individual.”
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A strength-based approach utilizes the client’s strengths; it sees the individual as resilient when faced with adverse conditions (McCashen, 2005).
https://positivepsychology.com/strengths-based-interventions/#strength-based-approach
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I utilize an integrative therapeutic approach of evidence-based therapies specific to your unique needs and goals. I most commonly draw upon, solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT), play therapy (specifically, sand tray), and family systems therapy (SFT).
I am also trained in accelerated resolution therapy (ART). ART is a evidence-based therapy commonly used to treat post traumatic stress through the use of eye movements.
When working with clients with concerns related to obsessive compulsive disorder, I utilize exposure and response prevention (ERP).
More Information
ART:
https://acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com/what-is-art/DBT:
https://www.camh.ca/en/health-info/mental-illness-and-addiction-index/dialectical-behaviour-therapy
Exposure and Response Prevention:
https://iocdf.org/about-ocd/treatment/erp/Family Therapy:
https://www.camh.ca/en/health-info/mental-illness-and-addiction-index/other-therapies/family-therapySandtray:
https://www.sandplaycanada.ca/what-is-sandplay-therapy/SFBT:
https://solutionfocused.net/what-is-solution-focused-therapy/
I truly believe you are the expert in your own life. I am the co-pilot who can accompany you for a small chapter of your life. It is my goal to support you by using the strengths and skills you already possess. By harnessing these skills, and teaching you new tools, it is my privilege to support you towards your goals.
During our first meeting we will co-create goals that will be help support your treatment plan. During each session, we will check-in with these goals and adjust or develop them accordingly.
“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk