Acceptance and ommitment therapy (ACT) is an action-oriented approach that stems from traditional behavioural therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy. Clients learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with their inner emotions and, instead, accept that these deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations that should not prevent them from moving forward in their lives. With this understanding, clients begin to accept their hardships and commit to making necessary changes in their behaviour, regardless of what is going on in their lives and how they feel about it.

Navigating childhood and adolescence can be challenging, and it’s not uncommon for children and teens to experience difficulties with emotions, behaviors, and relationships. Therapy offers a safe and supportive space for young people to express their thoughts and feelings, develop coping skills, and build resilience. Whether it's dealing with anxiety, depression, bullying, family changes, or academic stress, therapy helps children and teens better understand themselves and the world around them. Through age-appropriate techniques, such as play therapy, talk therapy, and creative approaches, we work together to address the unique needs of your child or teen, guiding them toward a healthier, more confident future.

Cognitive-behavioural therapy stresses the role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. It is based on the belief that thoughts, rather than people or events, cause our negative feelings. The therapist assists the client in identifying, testing the reality of, and correcting dysfunctional beliefs underlying his or her thinking. The therapist then helps the client modify those thoughts and the behaviours that flow from them. CBT is a structured collaboration between therapist and client and often calls for homework assignments. CBT has been clinically proven to help clients in a relatively short amount of time with a wide range of disorders, including depression and anxiety.

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is an evidence-based therapy for PTSD. It targets maladaptive thoughts linked to trauma. It usually involves around 12 sessions and will include at-home work, like writing about the traumatic event. CPT aims to change thoughts around safety, trust, control, esteem, and intimacy. It helps develop skills to challenge and restructure thoughts, leading to a healthier perspective, coping, and recovery from PTSD.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is the treatment most closely associated with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Therapists practice DBT in both individual and group sessions. The therapy combines elements of CBT to help with regulating emotion through distress tolerance and mindfulness. The goal of Dialectical Behavior Therapy is to alleviate the intense emotional pain associated with BPD.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an information-processing therapy that helps clients cope with trauma, addictions, and phobias. During this treatment, the patient focuses on a specific thought, image, emotion, or sensation while simultaneously watching the therapist's finger or baton move in front of his or her eyes. The client is told to recognize what comes up for him/her when thinking of an image; then the client is told to let it go while doing bilateral stimulation. It's like being on a train; an emotion or a thought may come up and the client lets it pass as though they were looking out the window of the moving train.

Exposure and response prevention (ERP) is an evidence-based form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that offers effective treatment for various conditions including anxiety, phobias, and eating disorders. It is considered a particularly effective treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). ERP usually includes a dozen or more sessions and starts with assessment and education. ERP then follows two essential steps, firstly, individuals are directly exposed to stimuli that typically evoke fear, distress, obsessive thoughts, or compulsive behaviors. Secondly, they learn therapeutic techniques to prevent their usual maladaptive responses.

Family and marital therapists work with families or couples both together and individually to help them improve their communication skills, build on the positive aspects of their relationships, and repair the harmful or negative aspects.

The Gottman Theory For Making Relationships Work shows that to make a relationship last, couples must become better friends, learn to manage conflict, and create ways to support each other's hopes for the future. Drs. John and Julie Gottman have shown how couples can accomplish this by paying attention to what they call the Sound Relationship House, or the seven components of healthy relationships.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a method of therapy that works to engage the motivation of clients to change their behaviour. Clients are encouraged to explore and confront their ambivalence. Therapists attempt to influence their clients to consider making changes, rather than non-directively explore themselves. Motivational Interviewing is frequently used in cases of problem drinking or mild addictions.

Psychodynamic therapy, also known as insight-oriented therapy, evolved from Freudian psychoanalysis. Like supporters of psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapists believe that bringing the unconscious into conscious awareness promotes insight and resolves conflict. But psychodynamic therapy is briefer and less intensive than psychoanalysis and also focuses on the relationship between the therapist and the client, as a way to learn about how the client relates to everyone in their life.

Solution-focused therapy, sometimes called "brief therapy," focuses on what clients would like to achieve through therapy rather than on their troubles or mental health issues. The therapist will help the client envision a desirable future, and then map out the small and large changes necessary for the client to undergo to realize their vision. The therapist will seize on any successes the client experiences, to encourage them to build on their strengths rather than dwell on their problems or limitations.

Strength-based therapy is a type of positive psychotherapy and counselling that focuses more on your internal strengths and resourcefulness, and less on weaknesses, failures, and shortcomings. This focus sets up a positive mindset that helps you build on your best qualities, find your strengths, improve resilience and change worldview to one that is more positive. A positive attitude, in turn, can help your expectations of yourself and others become more reasonable.

Trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) helps people who may be experiencing post-traumatic stress after a traumatic event to return to a healthy state.