My theoretical orientation is grounded in psychodynamic therapy.

This means therapy focuses on understanding how unconscious processes, early relational experiences, and internal patterns shape a person’s current emotional life, sense of self, and relationships.

To support this work, I take an integrative approach that draws from a range of therapeutic models, such as:

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
– Focuses on the connection between thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, and how these patterns may contribute to emotional distress.

Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT)
– Supports the development of self-compassion and helps address patterns of shame and self-criticism.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
– Focuses on working with emotions as a source of information and change, helping clients become more aware of, make sense of, and transform emotional experiences.

Mindfulness
– Supports increased awareness of present-moment experience and a more grounded response to internal states.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
– Focuses on psychological flexibility and the ability to relate differently to internal experiences while moving toward personally meaningful directions.

Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT)
– Draws attention to strengths, existing resources, and achievable steps toward change.

Relational Therapy
– Explores how interpersonal experiences shape patterns of relating to self and others.

Strength-Based Therapy
– Highlights resilience and existing capacities that support change and growth.

Narrative Therapy
– Examines how meaning is constructed through personal narratives and how these may be reinterpreted over time.

Humanistic Therapy
– Centres authenticity, self-understanding, and personal growth within a collaborative therapeutic process.