How I work
Approaches to support your therapeutic journey
I take a person-centred, relational and evidence-based approach to therapy. I draw from different therapeutic models depending on what brings you in, what feels useful to you, and what we are working toward together.
Some approaches help us understand patterns. Some give us practical tools. Some help us process experiences that still feel emotionally unfinished.
Usually, therapy involves a combination.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to therapy.
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CBT-I
CBT-I
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia — CBT-I — is a structured, evidence-based treatment specifically designed for chronic insomnia.
It goes well beyond basic sleep hygiene.
CBT-I: Evidence-based treatment for chronic insomnia
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We look at how your sleep system actually works, including sleep pressure, circadian rhythm, routines and the patterns that may be keeping insomnia going.
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CBT-I may involve adjusting sleep schedules, strengthening the connection between bed and sleep, reducing time spent awake in bed and working with behaviours that unintentionally reinforce insomnia.
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When sleep becomes difficult, it is easy to start monitoring, calculating, worrying and trying harder and harder to make sleep happen.
We work with the thoughts, expectations and anxiety that can turn bedtime into a nightly performance.
CBT-I is individualized using your actual sleep patterns and sleep diary rather than generic advice about what you “should” be doing.
understand the pattern ✻ create room for something different ✻
understand the pattern ✻ create room for something different ✻
Dream it
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Dream it 〰️
These are some of the therapeutic models I may draw from:
Different Approaches to Therapy
Complex Trauma
An evidence-based therapy that can help process distressing experiences, trauma and memories that continue to feel stuck.
IFS & Parts Work
Understanding the parts of yourself, including the ones that protect, criticize, avoid, overwork, people-please or shut down, with curiosity.
ACT
Learning to make room for difficult internal experiences while becoming clearer about your values and moving toward what matters to you.
Relational Therapy
Paying attention to what is happening in the present, how you relate to yourself, other people and the therapeutic relationship.
CBT-I
Treatment for insomnia that works with the behavioural, cognitive and physiological processes that can keep sleep problems going
Person-Centred
A collaborative approach grounded in empathy, authenticity, and the belief that therapy should fit the person, not the other way around.
The Process & What to Expect