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What is Integrative Psychotherapy?
Integrative psychotherapy draws from a range of therapeutic approaches, shaping the process around each person’s unique needs, personal history, and way of engaging with the world. Rather than relying on a single method, it offers flexibility and responsiveness, ensuring that therapy can evolve as insight grows. As a holistic model, integrative psychotherapy supports emotional, physical, and spiritual well‑being by addressing all aspects of an individual’s experience. It recognizes how these dimensions influence one another and helps clients build a more integrated sense of health and resilience.
Therapeutic Approaches
In my practice, I draw from a variety of therapeutic approaches to support each individual’s needs and lived experience.
Client-Centered
A non-directive approach that aims to create an atmosphere where the client can communicate their present thoughts and feelings without judgement. Empathic understanding, reflective listening, and unconditional positive regard are employed to assist clients find their own solutions and reach their full potential.
Psychodynamic
An approach that seeks to bring the client’s unconscious content into awareness. This form of psychotherapy seeks to understand the client’s childhood, family relationships and past experiences and their influence on present behaviour and concerns.
Somatic
An approach that examines the relationship between the client’s thoughts, feelings and beliefs and their impact on the body. Emotional trauma can become trapped within the body. Through therapeutic body techniques, clients can receive healing and relief from the physical manifestations of emotional stress.
Transpersonal
A holistic form of psychotherapy that seeks to integrate the spiritual aspects of the human experience into the therapeutic process. Techniques such as meditation, guided visualization, energy healing, ritual and spiritual traditions will be used to help address mental health and spiritual development.
Parts Work
An approach that seeks to bring awareness to the different parts of the mind and psyche (soul). By giving voice to the different parts, clients can gain a better understanding of their emotions, needs, beliefs, and triggers, which leads to greater integration and sense of wholeness.
Attachment-Based
An approach that explores how early relationships with caregivers shape emotional patterns, beliefs, and relationship dynamics in adulthood, with the goal of fostering greater security, connection, and resilience.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
A goal-oriented approach that helps clients identify, challenge, and transform negative thoughts and behaviours to improve emotional regulation and more effectively manage challenging situations.
Art Therapy
An approach that uses creative art-making including painting, drawing or collage to help facilitate self-exploration and process difficult emotions that would otherwise be difficult to articulate in other forms of therapy.
Mindfulness-Based
An approach that integrates meditation, breathing exercises, and non-judgmental present‑moment awareness to enhance clarity, reduce stress, improve focus, strengthen emotional regulation, and promote physical well‑being.
Areas of Support
I work with individuals navigating a wide range of personal challenges. Below are some of the areas I commonly support clients with.
- Chronic Illness
- Mind-Body Illness
- Relationships
- Trauma & PTSD
- Spirituality
- Meaning & Purpose
- Family Conflict
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Assertiveness
- Boundary Setting
- Self-Esteem
- Shame
- Life Transitions
FAQs
Do you offer in-person or virtual sessions?
I am currently offering in-person and virtual sessions.
Is Integrative Psychotherapy covered?
As a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), my services are covered by most insurance providers, and I provide an offical receipt that can be submitted for reimbursement. Currently, psychotherapy is not covered by OHIP.
What is your session fee?
My standard fee is $140.00 (tax exempt) for a 60 minute session, however I do offer a sliding scale for those in financial difficulty. Payment can be made by cash, cheque, credit card or e-transfer immediately following the session.
What is your cancellation policy?
A minimum of 24 hours notice is required to reschedule or cancel a session with no financial penalty. Cancellations with less than 24 hours notice are subject to the full session fee, except in the case of an emergency or serious illness.
“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
– Sigmund Freud
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