Therapeutic Work

Trauma informed practices recognizes the various impacts on people’s lives as a result of trauma experiences, while supporting symptom management and healing.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an integrative psychotherapy approach that has been extensively researched and proven effective treatment for trauma.

Somatic attachment therapy offers a holistic, body-centered method to healing relational wounds and trauma. Somatic therapy assists people to tune into their bodies and release stored trauma and emotional distress.

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) is a skills-based approach to increase emotional regulation, manage distress, assist with interpersonal relationships and help people work towards a life worth living.

Family of Origin and Family systems approaches supports people to understand the impact of their family dynamics on their interpersonal relationships and their self-concept. Part of this work is to heal attachment wounds and unhealthy dynamics.

Enmeshment is term used to describe families where boundaries are significantly diffused and meshed together, causing emotional dependency and prevention of individuality among family members. Enmeshment work helps individuals work towards untangling themselves from unhealthy dynamics through establishing boundaries, managing feelings of guilt and working towards autonomy.

Emotion Focused therapy (EFT) supports clients to experientially explore their emotions in a controlled, regulated and non-judgemental way. EFT assists people integrate their emotional experiences into their core selves to help feel better connected and manage avoidant tendencies.

Sex addiction (SA) therapy supports people with unhealthy sexual behaviours and relationships address their compulsive behaviours while making healthy changes. SA work provides deeper insight into the development of compulsive behaviours while supporting recovery efforts.

Love (and relationship) Addiction aims to support individuals who struggle with unhealthy or addictive relationships, are infatuated by the idea of love or love interests (people), and struggle with fantasizing about love and relationships.

This work uses the understanding that when an attachment bond is broken through sexual addiction or infidelity, the experience is traumatic. It provides trauma informed and specific work to support people manage their trauma responses, regain sense of safety and heal.