Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP) is a therapy firmly grounded in neuroscience and trauma theory. As a relational emotion-based therapy, it focuses on healing in the presence of others to undo aloneness, shame and isolation.

Interventions are used to titrate emotions the client may be avoiding to help them feel a deeper connection to themselves and others. The work taps into our innate emotional resilience and capacity for healing, encouraging neuroplasticity and long-lasting positive change. 

Many of us have a complicated relationship with our emotions. You may struggle to feel your feelings, they may hijack your rational mind, or you may have been emotionally manipulated by others.

Our emotions are powerful and impact our choices and actions more than we might realize. Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) helps you learn how to catch, notice and listen to your emotions as a normal and healthy source of information, which is in direct connection to your inner world.

In therapy, we attend to the sense of your body, because emotions live in the body the same way that thoughts exists in your mind. 

Coherence therapy (CT) aims to help people understand how life “problems” are often well-designed “solutions” for pain or suffering that is rooted in the past. Thus, our problematic thoughts, feelings and behaviours are functional and adaptive, serving some kind of protective purpose, even if that function is unconscious. 

Through deep exploration, we work to identify and understand the origins of emotional struggles, giving insights into the deep-seated learnings governing one’s life. A neurobiological process of memory reconsolidation is used to transform negative, limiting beliefs into adaptive and empowering narratives.

Internal family systems (IFS) is a non-pathologizing approach to therapy that focuses on the natural multiplicity of the mind. The model recognizes that the mind contains myriad parts, often operating in harmony but sometimes in conflict. IFS is designed to promote psychological well-being by addressing the dynamics of internal parts and our true authentic self.

Early attachment experiences with our primary caregivers shape the adults we become. The goals of attachment-based therapy are to address the limiting effects of negative early attachment experiences while strengthening one’s capacity for secure connection.

How we experience connection, love, community, and aloneness is integral to our overall wellbeing. Therapy can help uncover unhelpful behaviour patterns, find a new way of interacting with others and heal emotional pain.

Somatic-based therapy is body-centered to address memories and experiences stored in our bodies. It helps us move beyond the cognitive processes and into our bodies to find relief, nervous system regulation and balance within.

Neurobiologically informed therapy integrates current neuroscience findings into psychotherapy practice to understand how the brain, mind, and body process experiences and regulate emotions.

Mindfulness helps us become aware of our emotions and move through them with curiosity and compassion. When we do this, we discover our inner self and what we need to heal and grow.