Evidence-Based Psychotherapy
Support for adults navigating stress, trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges that interfere with daily life. Therapy is grounded in evidence-based practice and informed by Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), with attention to how emotional patterns, stress, and past experiences shape the present.
The focus is on building stability, emotional regulation, and sustainable change that supports both personal well-being and day-to-day functioning.
A Steady, Integrative Approach
Therapy is paced, collaborative, and responsive to your capacity and life demands. Sessions integrate practical skills with deeper understanding, helping you make sense of emotional responses, relationship patterns, and the impact of ongoing stress.
The work is structured, relational, and evidence-informed, offering a steady space to develop clarity, resilience, and more effective ways of navigating work, relationships, and everyday life.
COVERED BY MOST EMPLOYEE BENEFITS PROGRAMS
Submit your receipt to your employee benefits for their provisional reimbursement or claim the services on your income tax.
We accept VISA, Mastercard, and Debit.
Covered by Most Benefit Plans
Receipts provided for insurance and income-tax claims.
Services offered by a Registered Social Worker (MSW, RSW).
Workshops & Training
Trauma-informed, evidence-based workshops focused on stress, emotional regulation, and relationship effectiveness in high-demand environments. Grounded in a social work lens that recognizes people within their relational, organizational, and systemic contexts, sessions support clearer communication, steadier emotional responses, and more sustainable working relationships.
Available for organizations, professional groups, and community settings.
A Steady, Structured Space for Change
When life or work feels demanding, the first need is often steadiness.
The work begins with a psychodynamic and relational understanding of the person or system as a whole — who they are, how they have adapted to their environment, and how past and present contexts continue to shape patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaviour. This perspective supports a deeper understanding of the human experience before introducing specific interventions.
From this foundation, evidence-based approaches are integrated intentionally. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy are used to help identify and shift unhelpful patterns of thought and behaviour, build practical skills, and strengthen emotional regulation. Mindfulness-based and somatic practices support awareness of internal states, help restore a sense of safety in the body, and improve regulation within the nervous system.
Attention is given to how individuals function within relationships, roles, and systems — including families, workplaces, teams, and organizations. Interpersonal effectiveness, boundaries, communication, and role expectations are explored with consideration for the broader environments in which people live and work, particularly in high-demand settings where stress can intensify existing patterns.
The aim is not to apply techniques in isolation, but to use them within a thoughtful, person-centred, and context-aware framework that supports stability, understanding, and sustainable change over time.
Making Sense of Patterns and Challenges
Making sense of patterns, symptoms, and experiences so they can be responded to with greater intention and choice.
Once stability is established, therapy offers space to better understand what is happening beneath the surface. Many people seek therapy because anxiety, low mood, emotional overwhelm, or relationship difficulties continue to interfere with daily functioning — even when they are capable, motivated, and high-performing.
This work often involves making sense of common concerns such as anxiety disorders, mood difficulties, trauma-related responses, emotional dysregulation, and long-standing personality patterns that shape how people think, feel, and relate under stress. Rather than reducing experience to labels, the focus is on understanding how these patterns developed, how they are maintained, and how they show up across work, relationships, and life transitions.
Understanding creates choice. It helps people respond more intentionally rather than react automatically, and supports clearer decision-making, healthier boundaries, and more effective relationships.
A Thoughtful, Evidence-Based Approach to Growth
Supporting personal, relational, and professional development across therapy, group work, and training.
As understanding deepens, the same evidence-based framework supports growth across personal, relational, and professional domains. Growth may involve strengthening emotional capacity, improving communication and leadership skills, clarifying values and direction, or developing more sustainable ways of working and relating in complex environments.
This approach to growth remains grounded in CBT- and DBT-informed psychotherapy, mindfulness, and relational practice, and is adapted to the context in which it is applied.
Growth is approached with care, structure, and collaboration — guided by goals, readiness, and context rather than pressure or quick fixes.
An Integrated, Trauma-Informed Approach
Work here is grounded in an integrated, trauma-informed, and person-centred approach to care. Rather than relying on a single model or method, therapy and training draw from multiple evidence-based practices, adapted thoughtfully to the needs, goals, and context of each person or group.
This approach recognizes that people arrive with different histories, capacities, and environments — including exposure to trauma, chronic stress, and high-demand roles. Care is collaborative and responsive, with attention to safety, regulation, understanding, and growth over time.
Integration allows the work to remain flexible and clinically grounded across individual therapy, group work, psychoeducation, and workshops, while continuing to evolve as training and practice expand.
Serving adults and teens (16+) navigating trauma, emotional sensitivity, and relationship difficulties.
Online across Ontario, and in person in Waterloo.
Questions?
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Location
156 King St. S. (Kuntz Lane)
Waterloo ON N2J 1P6
T: 519-635-1913