What is an integrative psychotherapist?   Someone who believes that in order for people to change, we have to focus on four areas: thoughts, emotions, behaviour and the body. 

As an integrative psychotherapist, I help clients look at all four areas through the context of a safe therapeutic relationship.  I believe that the quality of the relationship between the client and therapist is the most important ingredient in change.  As a client, we need someone who can attune to us, accept us, support us, challenge us, help us see ourselves and the world in new ways, and most fundamentally, help us gain more awareness of ourselves: our thoughts, our feelings, our behaviour and our body. 

If you decide to come and see me, the first session or two will be us coming to an understanding of what the problem is.  Together we will outline a treatment plan that makes sense to you. 

A course of therapy can involve exploring your inner world, working through unresolved feelings from the past, reading, journal writing, gestalt therapy techniques, or homework assignments about trying new behaviour.   I also specialize in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).  See Services offered, above.