This is a trauma-informed therapeutic approach designed to address the unique dynamics of narcissistic abuse, relational trauma, and the chronic stress they create. This model focuses on helping you understand and navigate the behaviors of antagonistic, narcissistic, or high-conflict personalities while prioritizing emotional safety and self-empowerment. Through education, strategies, emotional processing, and practical tools, this approach aims to reduce the impact of these relationships, working through layered emotion, rebuilding self-esteem, and fostering resilience as you heal and move through the reality of antagonism.

Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is an evidence-based approach designed to help you retrain your brain's response to chronic pain. By addressing the role of neural pathways in pain perception, PRT helps you recognize and reframe pain signals as less threatening, reducing their intensity over time. This therapy combines mindfulness, emotional processing, and cognitive techniques to break the cycle of fear and pain, empowering you to regain control and improve your quality of life.

Description: Cognitive-Behavioural therapy is a form of evidence-based psychological treatment. A CBT therapist will help you understand the way your mind interprets events, interactions, and your environment in general. We also collaboratively explore how your thought process might impact your actions. If you ask yourself: “why do I do the things I do?”, are a fan of self-awareness, and want to dive deeper into your subconscious (usually the funnest part!), this might be a good place to start.

‍CBT can benefit those who struggle with: anxiety disorders, social anxiety, general stress, depression, bipolar, relationship issues, anger problems, bipolar disorders, phobias, panic disorder, grief, attention-deficit disorders​

‍Age group: adolescents, adults

Description: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy focuses less on thought patterns and more on learning new skills by replacing unhealthy coping strategies with new, healthier alternatives. DBT says we can learn to mindfully live with our thoughts without getting caught up in them, and not letting our feelings constantly be in the driver seat. If you want to build a mental health toolbox, DBT might be for you.  

‍DBT can benefit those who struggle with: borderline personality disorder, emotion regulation issues, self-harm, substance use history, anger problems, anxiety, depression, bipolar, relationship issues, panic disorder, trauma, communication difficulties, attention-deficit disorders.​

‍Age group: adolescents, adults

Description: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a mindfulness-based therapy that teaches us the balance between accepting things we cannot change and implementing healthy change when it is in our control. ACT explores your core values, and helps you live more authentically. If there is something you’re struggling to let go of, ACT can surely help.  

‍ACT can benefit those who struggle with: anxiety, social anxiety, depression, general/work stress, relationship issues, chronic pain, OCD, grief.​

‍Age group: Adolescents, adults

Description: Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy helps undo the OCD cycle addressing both obsessions and compulsions. Understanding OCD and your triggers is the first step to breaking the cycle, followed by completing an exposure hierarchy at length with your ERP therapist. Rather than responding to a compulsion, your therapist will help guide you in how to break the pattern repeatedly. If you struggle with obsessive thoughts or compulsions, you might want to consider an ERP protocol.  

‍ERP can benefit those who struggle with: OCD, phobias​

‍Age group: Young adults, adults

Description: Cognitive Processing Therapy is used to primarily target trauma-like symptoms/PTSD. CPT will help you to understand and identify how your trauma has impacted and shifted your perspective/beliefs about the world, yourself, and others. Since we know trauma has the ability to turn our world upside-down and leave us feeling alone, CPT helps us regain power over our lives by understanding how our minds shift after a psychological injury (and how to reverse this protective mechanism).  If you have a history of trauma and you appreciate structure as well as goal-oriented therapies, CPT might be for you.

‍CPT can benefit those who struggle with: Trauma, PTSD/Complex PTSD, anxiety, secondary depression
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Age group: Adults

Description: Prolonged Exposure Therapy is another evidence-based treatment used to target trauma/PTSD (and anxiety symptoms due to trauma). PE targets avoidance rather than your thought process. In other words, it focuses on how to work through your body’s fight-flight-freeze response by safely re-engaging in things you used to enjoy but are no longer doing. PE helps you regain pieces of your life as well as emotionally processing to free you from haunting memories and flashbacks. If you’re tired of feeling the heaviness of your past and your world is starting to feel smaller and smaller, PE might be for you.  

‍PE can benefit those who struggle with: Trauma, PTSD, anxiety, phobias, secondary depression  

‍Age group: Adults

Description: Trauma-Focused CBT integrates a number of specific evidence-based techniques to help reduce symptoms of trauma in youth, adolescents, and their parents. TF-CBT includes both cognitive reframing and learning skills to manage your symptoms, step-by-step. If you or your child are struggling with trauma and you would like to learn about how it has impacted you or someone you love, TF-CBT might be a good fit.  

‍TF-CBT can benefit those who struggle with: Trauma, PTSD, anxiety, secondary depression

‍Age group: Youth, adolescents, adults, parents/families

Description: Motivational interviewing is a therapy that targets a specific unwanted behaviour, such as addiction (example: shopping). If you’ve struggled with addictive or self-sabotaging behaviours, motivational interviewing can help motivate you to implement healthy change.  

‍MI can benefit those who struggle with: Addiction, wanting to change an unwanted behaviour, fear of change

Description: This brief therapy focuses on collaboratively constructing solutions to a problem. We explore the issue at length, including expectations, and we generate goals/solutions to improve your current struggle. If you’re struggling with a specific problem and you’d like to keep it brief rather than participate in therapy long-term, SFBT might be for you.

Can benefit those who struggle with: Life changes or transitions, anxiety, general stress, relationship difficulties, motivation, family conflict