Narrative therapy is about helping you make sense of the stories you tell about your life. It focuses on separating you from your problems and empowering you to rewrite those narratives in a way that brings clarity, strength, and hope. This approach is often used for things like trauma, identity struggles, or low self-esteem, and it can help you feel more in control of your life.

What happens during an EMDR session?

In EMDR sessions, clients are asked to focus on a specific traumatic memory, with attention given to the negative image, belief, and body sensations related to this memory. Clients are then asked to focus on a positive belief that would indicate the issue was resolved. While focusing on the distressing memory, the therapist will begin sets of side-to-side eye movements or tapping (bilateral stimulation) and the client will be guided to notice what comes to mind after each set. Experiences include shifts in insight or changes in images, feelings, or beliefs regarding the past event, including a reduction of distress associated with the memory.

You can think of EMDR as a desensitization therapy. The memories won’t disappear but they won’t be as overwhelming or intense.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapeutic approach that understands the mind as naturally made up of different “parts,” each with its own thoughts, emotions, and roles. This is not the same as having a “split personality” or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). In fact, everyone experiences different parts of themselves—for example, a part that wants to rest and another that feels guilty about not being productive.

IFS sees these parts as completely natural and often protective. Through therapy, we learn how to relate to them with curiosity and compassion, rather than judgment or fear. At the core of IFS is the belief that we all have a wise, centered Self—a place of calm, clarity, and confidence—that can help guide us toward healing.

Psychedelic preparation & integration therapy provides clients with an opportunity to prepare for and better understand what their psychedelic experience could involve. By discussing the importance of set and setting, intention setting and exploring risks and benefits the client can get the most out of their psychedelic experience and minimize the risk of adverse effects. Integration helps clients to unpack their journey and incorporate it into their lives holistically.

What does Psychedelic Integration Therapy entail?

This type of therapy can involve any and/or all of the following: Harm reduction, preparation for the journey/trip, exploring benefits, risks, and safety, setting intentions and goals, reinforcement of the insights and wisdom gained from the experience, processing and understanding the experience, developing a spiritual connection, breaking unhealthy patterns, strengthening healthy patterns

Who could benefit from Psychedelic Integration Therapy?

People who are new to psychedelics and need a trained therapist in this area

People who want to understand and process the impacts of their traumatic past

People who feel like they need more than traditional therapy

Those who are seeking a stronger understanding of the lessons learned in the journey

Those who are nervous about using this approach but are curious

In Relational Somatic Therapy we will work together to bear witness to the information that your body holds. With the use of present time awareness of the felt sensations in the body to access information about what you need in order to heal.

‘Soma’ is a Greek word that means ‘the body living in its wholeness’. Somatics is an inquiry into knowing ourselves and the world around us, by listening to the body and its language (which is sensation-based).

Unlike traditional '“top down” or cognitive-behavioural therapies, somatic based approaches deepen your felt sense of connection with self.