Find a Therapist in Waterdown, Ontario.

I have over 25 years of experience in working with individuals, teens, couples and families and am a Registered Social Worker. I offer therapy in an empathic, supportive, caring and non-judgemental environment. I will assist you to identify the root cause of your concerns and clarify your goals for change, so that together we can help you enhance the quality of your life. My goal is to inspire you to create a life that helps you live in a meaningful and fulfilling manner.

Psychotherapy is a longer journey that examines the present and the past to identify the repeated patterns of unhelpful approaches you take to dealing with your life's challenges. It's a process that fosters self-discovery, helping you uncover your strengths, resilience, and psychological awareness. One of the key challenges is to maintain a balance between exploring the past and staying present, ensuring you don't overlook something important in your current life. Trust and kindness during your therapy naturally evolve in good psychotherapy.

My approach to Psychotherapy is centered on creating a warm, empathetic, and confidential space where you can explore your thoughts and emotions freely. Through personalized and evidence-based techniques, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy and psychodynamic approaches, we will work together to uncover and address the root causes of your distress. My goal is to empower you with the tools and insights needed to overcome challenges, build resilience, and enhance your overall well-being. By fostering a deeper understanding of yourself, you'll be better equipped to navigate life's complexities and achieve lasting personal growth. Take the first step towards a healthier, more fulfilling life.

I offer a unique form of Psychotherapy that uses therapeutic art making combined with talking therapy. I use these techniques to guide my clients through a process of self-discovery and help them achieve a stronger sense of well-being. Creating art is an extension of self onto a canvas, which allows my clients to have a means of observing their emotions and inner thoughts, as well as a non-threatening way to express them. Through this, my clients can learn to understand their own behaviours, thought patterns, emotions, and moods. With this technique, my clients can learn to take control of their lives and manage their emotions.

Many people feel nervous about going to a psychotherapist. Not knowing what to expect or worrying you'll be told what to do by some know-it-all therapist is enough to keep many people from even making the first phone call. My approach puts you in charge of our sessions. With concrete goals in mind, I ask for specific feedback from you about how you think our sessions are going and the improvements you're seeing, to guide where we go next. We're partners in our work. Whether you want to make changes in a particular aspect of your life or just get more out of life in general, we'll plot a course to get you there, then make it happen together.

When you feel overwhelmed by your problems and unable to cope, you may benefit from psychotherapy. Psychotherapy I provide, helps with a range of different challenges: from depression, anxiety, phobias, bipolar and low self-esteem to addiction and family conflicts. In the process, you’ll learn how to cope with difficult situations in a more adaptive way, understand yourself better, your own goals and values, develop skills for improving relationships and overcome specific problems such as eating disorder, depression or phobias among others. I work from a variety of modalities: cognitive behavioural therapy, interpersonal therapy, mindfulness, narrative, solution focused, family therapy

Are you searching for increased confidence, happiness, and improved relationships? Through a compassionate lens, I will support and challenge you to new ways of thinking about yourself and those around you. I will help you realize your full emotional potential so that you can connect with those around you on a deeper level, and benefit from the richness of living an authentic life.

Psychotherapy allows for personal challenges to be addressed. Through a warm, therapeutic relationship in which individuals, couples, and families are permitted to discuss these issues, my aim is to assist in resolving them. Although many forms of therapy exist to do so, sensitivity will be provided to ensure the client ultimately dictates which ones are to be used. Whether it is amending destructive thoughts, accepting thoughts and feelings that are beyond our control, or utilizing strengths within to formulate new solutions, therapy will be structured to facilitate therapeutic goals in the manner most beneficial to the client.

My psychotherapy / counselling style is intended to help you better respond to your current life situation and challenges by assisting you as you explore your own thoughts, feelings and behaviours with regards to those issues and challenges. It is also intended to help you develop skills you can use in the future when you run into new difficulties.

My approach involves drawing on various modalities (e.g., dialogic, narrative, solution-focused, emotion-focused) that fit the unique needs of clients. I hope to create an environment for clients where they feel a sense of safety to express their reflections, thoughts, and concerns. I take on a non-judgmental, non-expert stance and firmly believe that clients have everything that they need already within them- my role is to simply remind you of who you are or to help you discover who you would like to be through supportive, therapeutic conversations. If you are interested in learning more about my approach and to see if we would be a good fit, please contact me for a free consultation.

My approach to psychotherapy is rooted in post-modernism and occupies a systemic lens and strengths-based perspective. I believe that clients are the experts of their own lives, and my role is to help make sense of their experiences and facilitate their confidence in implementing the changes they want to see. Further, I believe that any emotion, reaction or feeling has its place and can be a normal response to specific circumstances. Part of my aim for therapy is to facilitate understanding to help clients move forward. Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to ensure we are a good fit.

Psychotherapy is one way of working through depression, anxiety, personality disorders,eating disorders, addictions, marriage and family issues (to name some). The process can vary depending on an indivduals needs and struggles. I work from the cognitive behaiour and the dialectical behavioral models to help individuals learn and grow as people, and aquire tools to help cope with their struggles.

Hope centered Counselling is working towards building a coast to coast service because we just really want to help as many people as we can. We are having therapists join the team to meet the ever growing needs and changes in our communities and country. We want to be able to serve all the diversity this beautiful country has to offer by creating a team that is just as diverse and that speaks different languages as well. We look forward to supporting you through a wide range of life difficulties.

Although often used interchangeably there are some subtle differences between counselling and psychotherapy. Counselling can be thought of as relatively short term with an individual seeking out solutions to a particular issue they are dealing with. It is often concerned with an individual’s behaviour, targeting a particular symptom or problem situation, and is supportive. Psychotherapy, on the other hand, is usually longer term, focusing more on physical and/or emotional problems which either persist for some time or keep recurring. Rather than dealing with a specific problem, psychotherapy challenges an individual’s belief systems and core values.

Clarity is everything! Psychotherapy for me is the process in which we help an individual bring clarity to their life. Stress, dysfunctional relationships, childhood neglect or trauma, loss or rejection, failure and crisis can all send us reeling. We lose our focus. We get off track. We become disoriented and lose our centre. Sometimes Psychotherapy is a process in which we reclaim our selves. In other cases we re-create ourselves, and yet in other cases we over come ourselves. Once we see clearly we begin to place the stepping-stones of intentional behaviour as we write our next chapters . . . now with clarity.

There are several approaches to psychotherapy — including cognitive-behavioural, interpersonal and other kinds of talk therapy — that help individuals work through their problems. At Meristem, we utilize an eclectic approach to psychotherapy that incorporates a variety of therapeutic principles and theories in order to create the ideal treatment program to meet the specific needs of our clients. We encourage a collaborative approach that enhances the client/therapist relationship. We strive to model positive behaviours and an empathic atmosphere that builds trust and safety within the counselling relationship.

Psychotherapy has been found to be an effective form of aiding in your health & well-being. My goal is to help you to optimize your overall health as mental/emotional/spiritual wellness plays a key role in your physical well-being. I believe that the difficulties and challenges that you are struggling with are a normal and understandable reaction to damaging circumstances that you have been through. With my guidance and support I encourage you to explore these areas in your life that have been influenced and tap into your unique and innocent talents and strengths to work to overcome the harmful effects of those circumstances. I draw on a variety of approaches to meet your unique needs.

Stress reminds you that you need to do more than the contrary to reduce your stress. Through Psychotherapy with Julian D’Souza he addresses your physical, mental, emotional and social stress and needs. Anxiety is your response to STRESS. By redefining your expectation of self and the possible outcomes you come to face reality than get sucked in a belief of avoidance. Anxiety and stress does create motivation, if handled well Psychotherapy reduces the RISK. Psychotherapy is behavior modification in our daily lives, and more than reducing the height of the waves or stress. 2 hearts are better than 1, Psychotherapy creates that environment for your emotions healthy or not.

The foundation of therapy is a trusting and supportive relationship where people can feel safe to explore themselves and the world around them. Each person comes to therapy with a unique story and as a therapist, I believe in providing a treatment experience that is as unique as the individual themselves. I provide therapy using a strengths-based and collaborative lens and foster healing through connection and empowerment. Book a free consultation to see if we are a good fit.

Contact CBT Solutions today to learn why Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is considered the gold standard in psychotherapeutic treatment. CBT is a highly effective, evidence based form of psychotherapy with thousands of controlled studies showing its effectiveness in treating a wide range of experiences. At CBT Solutions, we can help you with depression, anxiety, panic, insomnia, OCD, addictions, grief, pre and post-natal depression and anxiety, weight loss, chronic pain, and more.

Our approach to psychotherapy is rooted in the principles of EMPATHY & EVIDENCE. We not only know from experience what you're going through, we understand the science behind the mental health victories which will ultimately elevate your life. This blend of lived experience and evidence-based techniques truly defines our approach to psychotherapy at Whiteboard. In terms of therapeutic approaches, we employ elements of the following approaches: Narrative Therapy; Person-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy; Motivational Interviewing; and many other evidence-based approaches.

Psychotherapy is ideally a safe place for clients to begin unpacking their issues to begin looking forward towards their best hopes. While it can certainly be challenging and intimidating, my goal is to help clients embrace the discomfort in exploring these tough issues to ideally imagine a better future to ultimately pursue. While my practice can center around resolution of goals, I also believe some people just need a trained clinician to talk to in a less goal-oriented formal matter.

Many of us struggle with depression, anxiety, loss, relationship troubles, stress, self-esteem, substance abuse or other issues. Psychotherapy can help work through such problems to develop healthier, more effective habits. My approach includes cognitive-behavioural, and insight oriented therapies. I provide a supportive environment that allows to talk openly with someone who is objective, neutral and non-judgmental. We will work together to identify and change the thought and behaviour patterns that are keeping you from feeling your best. You will not only have solved the problems that brought you in, but you will have learned new skills so you can better cope with any future challenges.

Close your eyes and imagine yourself sitting in a movie theatre (on second thought keep them open -- it'll make it much easier to keep reading). Now imagine the movie that's playing on the screen is your life. Psychotherapy is like a private screening of your life's movie with a trained expert. It's a place where you'll get to collaboratively review, discuss, and revise aspects of your movie, all from the unique perspective of someone in the audience. You choose which clips to play and we'll cue 'em up together. The experience should be fun, fascinating, and meaningful to you -- everything you'd expect from the cost of admission! https://www.intunecounselling.com/blog/the-audience-effect

I am dedicated to working with my clients to cultivate a deep sense of emotional awareness and understanding. Emotions can often feel overwhelming or even antagonistic, but I believe they are essential messengers. My primary goal is to transform this perspective, helping clients recognize that emotions are valuable messengers with important insights. By fostering a healthier relationship with our emotions, we can uncover what they are truly trying to communicate. In our sessions, we adopt a collaborative approach, working together as a cohesive team. This partnership is rooted in mutual respect and shared goals, allowing us to navigate the complexities