Internal Family Systems-informed Therapy

IFS is an evidence-based psychotherapy, which helps people heal by accessing and healing their protective and wounded inner parts via the Self.  

The Self is comprised of the following 8Cs and 5 Ps: confidence, calm, compassion, courage, creativity, clarity, curiosity, connectedness, and patience, persistence, playfulness, perspective, and presence.

The goal of IFS-informed Therapy is to learn how to work with your inner system for years to come.

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is a manualized, evidence-based psychoanalytic therapy for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) that has recently been adapted for patients with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and pathological narcissism (PN).

TFP is based on a contemporary object relations model of psychological functioning that incorporates findings from attachment and neurocognitive research. The process focuses on internalized representations of self and other that organize the person’s interpersonal experience.

We work together in dialogue to understand particular patterns of relating to other people.

Gestalt Psychotherapy

The objective of Gestalt therapy is to help the person become more alive and free from the blocks that may limit or tarnish satisfaction, fulfillment, and growth, and to experiment with new ways of being in the world. Gestalt therapy includes perception and meaning-making processes that forms experience. Also, because Gestalt therapy relies on the contact between therapist and client, and because a relationship can be considered to be contact over time, there is a heavy reliance on role-playing and interpersonal experiences within the session between therapist and client to better understand, in a safe environment, the how the person behaves in the here and now.

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing Therapy is aimed at treating trauma and stress-related disorders such as PTSD. The primary goal of SE is to modify the trauma-related stress response through bottom-up processing. The client's attention is directed toward internal sensations rather than to cognitive or emotional experiences.

This method helps the person become more in-tune with their body after releasing trauma and tension that may have existed for years.

PsychoDynamic psychotherapy

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy helps to reduce symptoms of anxiety, emotional disturbance by untying the unconscious knots that keep the mind from healing, developing, and maturing.

This technique is an evidence-based form of psychotherapy that focuses on reducing internal conflict between impulsive behaviours, overbearing thoughts, and emotions.

Some kinds of internal conflict developed from years past may develop unconscious defense mechanisms. Some examples of defense mechanisms are: Denial, Displacement, Repression, Projection, Rationalization, Intellectualization, Reaction Formation, Regression, Suppression, and Dissociation.

With new insight of these unconscious defenses, we work together to better understand and change current-day patterns.

Jungian-based Psychotherapy

Jungian Psychotherapy is an approach to psychotherapy that looks at conscious and unconscious forces of ego, shadow, complexes, instincts (archetypal images and ideas), dreams, and the process of individuation. To be clear, I am not an analyst, and therefore this is not Jungian Analysis. It is Psychotherapy based on the Analytical Psychology of Carl Jung and post-Jungian work.

Often this form of therapy looks at external forces along with the internal forces, such as cultural complexes, cultural norms, the family, how the family relates to cultural norms, and how the individual fits into that mix.

One modern approach to Carl Jung’s work is Active Imagination towards dreams and fantasies.