Attachment theory targets emotions, thoughts, behaviors, interpersonal dynamics and exchanges we have with ourselves and others based on the interruptions and injuries that have been directly experienced by us in early childhood. As humans, we have an innate, biological need for connection including having our basic needs met by our caregiver(s). When these are not experienced or received in the way that we need, we can see these injuries being projected into the relationships that we have throughout our life. In therapy, we focus on mapping your conflict cycle, identify the connections between injuries and experiences, and the perspective it gave you in current relationships, including the relationship you have with yourself.

Narrative Therapy encourages you to externalize your problems instead of internalizing them which can often lead to feelings of shame, disappointment and guilt. It focuses on identifying your values and applying the skills that you have associated with them to help you navigate through challenges and barriers in life. The 3 overarching goals of Narrative Therapy is to identify your current problem-saturated narrative that you have about your life, restructure and re-author your narrative, and construct new meanings in relation to the stories that arise when processing certain events and experiences in therapy.

DBT is a modified version of CBT that focus on helping your regulate your emotions, develop health ways of coping with life stressors, improving your relationship with others and identifying how to live in the moment. There are 4 strategies and interventions within DBT Therapy: Mindfulness; Interpersonal Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance; Emotion Regulation

EFT aims at improving and strengthening relationships by rekindling the emotional and physical bond that has been interrupted by attachment injuries, experiences, difficult emotions and fear of vulnerability. Based on the attachment approach, EFT focuses on discovering the unmet needs of each partner, and identifying how to repair past/current wounds within the relationship in order to help promote a healthier bond/connection, both emotionally and physically.

Freud said it best: “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.” Psychodynamic theory aims to address the development of psychological processes that you have acquired throughout your life. It is with these processes that you gain a lens into your life and the world that you live in. It focuses on increasing insight into your every day life, and how you navigate through daily barriers and struggles based on past, lived experiences.

CBT is a very effective way of identifying current and/or past negative and inaccurate thought processes. CBT skills and interventions help address patterns of thoughts, behaviors, emotions and the consequences that may arise in those patterns of negative thinking. CBT can be applied to a wide spectrum of challenges including coping with difficult emotions and life stressors, preventing a lapse/relapse, resolving relationship conflicts, and overcoming past/present emotional trauma(s).