Psychotherapy in Toronto

Psychotherapy is a catalytic force for beneficial change. Psychotherapy is in part an education in what life and the human experience is, as well as a support system for diving into and exploring the internal landscape of our current mental, emotional, psycho-spiritual state allowing for healing to take place. If you suffer from anxiety symptoms, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder, complex trauma, PTSD, depression or other chronic emotional and behavioral problems then Psychotherapy can help. Through many tools and techniques learn practical steps to move forward, heal what is keeping you stuck and create deeper chemistry with life.

EMDR Psychotherapy is a unique approach to processing complex trauma and overcoming PTSD. We all have some trauma in our lives. Much of it is attachment trauma, or little ‘t’ trauma, from when we were growing up as children. For some our trauma is more acute, what is known as big ‘T’ trauma; the end result is the same. We find ourselves bombarded by, sabotaged by, or suffering from our past. EMDR Psychotherapy is a brilliant approach to clean out our past, create more peace in our present and free up our futures. Studies have shown that EMDR helps to rapidly reduce PTSD symptoms and speed up healing. 

Hypnosis, or Hypnotherapy is an effective way to create change on an intrinsically deep level. Utilizing deeply meditative states, hypnosis allows us to by-pass the blocks that keep us stuck in the same external circumstances and feeling states we find ourselves in. A perfect harmonic chord to Psychotherapy and the Holistic Healing Arts, hypnosis helps us to return to a more natural state of being, joy and fulfillment, allowing us to reclaim our power and freedom. We relearn how to use our personal choice within our lives ultimately helping us to reach our goals. Through mindfulness we learn to empower ourselves through choice.

Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is an effective trauma reprocessing protocol where we target chronic shock stored in the midbrain. Chronic shock is part of PTSD, anxiety, OCD and dissocation. Very early research is showing a possible correlation to autoimmune disorders, chronic pain disorders and IBS. More research is needed to confirm these preliminary results but ultimately it shows us new levels of hope for treatment. 

Once we heal chronic shock, we expereince new vitality, safety, and deeper levels of calm. We are more able to state change our nervous systems from fight, flight, freeze and fawn to rest and digest. 

Somatic Relational Psychotherapy is an effective way to holistically understand and process trauma. Trauma can become stuck as holding patterns within the body, this holding pattern can then stop the flow of healthy thoughts, emotions and actions from taking place. Somatic Relational Therapy is a perfect complement to EMDR Psychotherapy helping to rapidly reduce or remit psycho-somatic as well as emotional blocks. Somatic Relational Psychotherapy also operates through the lens that trauma is created through relationship and so depends on healthy relationship to heal. A high priority is given to the ethical and healthy therapeutic alliance so that clients can feel safe to move through an experience in the presence of a supportive other.