What is therapy all about?

Therapy, also called psychotherapy or counselling, is the process of meeting with a therapist to resolve problematic behaviors, beliefs, feelings, relationship issues, and sensations in the body. Beginning therapy can be a big step toward being the healthiest version of yourself and living the best life possible—no matter what challenges you may be facing. Through therapy, you can change self-destructive behaviours and habits, resolve painful feelings, improve your relationships, develop an understanding of yourself, and more.

People come to counselling for all sorts of reasons:

To get things off their chest; to explore themselves as people; to untangle confusing or painful emotions; to resolve issues from the past and present; to build a better future, etc.

Every person’s version of therapy will look different. However, I aim to offer you a safe, confidential space, to truly explore what is going on for you, help you establish goals for your therapy and determine the steps you will take to get there.

Some people only need one or two sessions to put things into perspective; many clients need at least 6-10 sessions to resolve issues; while others will dip in and out of therapy during different stages of their lives; and some will want to invest in long-term psychotherapy (months or years).

It really is governed by you, and your unique needs.

Some insights that drive my therapeutic approach…

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I can change.”

Carl Rogers

“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.”

Carl Rogers

““People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be… When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner”… I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”

Carl Rogers

“If our thinking is bogged down by distorted symbolic meanings, illogical reasoning and erroneous interpretations, we become, in truth, blind and deaf”.

Dr. Aaron Beck

“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”

Sigmund Freud

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist and that is all.”

Oscar Wilde

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

Carl Jung

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms- to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

Viktor Frankl

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.”

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“The mystery of human existence lies not just in staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky