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Psychotherapy | Couples Therapy | Couples Counselling | Family Therapy
Designed for couples, modified for families, and applies to all individual relationships
Couples caught in an emotional "dance" often face repetitive, unsatisfying patterns fueled by unresolved emotions. This dynamic leads to disconnection and escalating tension, as reactions to negative feelings push partners further apart. Whether one becomes pursuing and the other avoidant—or both take the same stance—poor communication deepens dissatisfaction over time.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), rooted in Attachment Theory, helps individuals, couples, or families navigate and heal these dynamics. By understanding emotional processes, EFT deescalates conflict, repairs attachment injuries, and fosters connection, joy, and emotional freedom, ultimately leading to a renewed sense of closeness.
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Different strokes for different folks ...
A personal approach to therapy means it's possible that each individual will benefit from a different therapeutic entry point into change. One entry point is rational logic or thinking (eg., Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), another is emotions (eg., Emotionally Focussed Therapy), another behavioral in nature (eg., Mindfullness), another spiritual (eg., faith based counselling) and another multi-faceted (eg., Dialectical Behavioral Therapy).
While there may be different entry points to growth, ultimately restoring relational connection will be key in healing all areas of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Integrative therapy provides flexibility for adapting to the best entry point for the individual and it holds relationship, non-judgment, and radical acceptance as keys to transformative growth.
A secure attachment bond in one relationship has the power to heal other relationships ...
Attachment theory explores the bond between a child and their caregivers, providing insight into how early connection patterns shape adult relationships. It suggests that the way individuals manage anxiety and disconnection as children often influences their ability to connect as adults, especially without restorative interventions like therapy or transformative relationships.
Adult attachment styles fall into two main categories—secure and insecure—and four quadrants: secure, pursuant, avoidant, and pursuant-avoidant. Understanding one’s style and the balance between self-esteem and esteem for others can foster secure connections. A therapeutic relationship can serve as a transformative foundation, helping individuals build healthier, more secure bonds.
A secure attachment bond with God has the power to heal one's full being ....
It is beleived that a relationship with God can represent another such alternative tranformative relationship. In this way the relationship with God can then become the vehicle for restoration of other relationships in one's life. Thus Spirituality can be another "entry way" from an integrative therapy approach into healing relationships with others, and healing the self including thinking, feeling, behaving, and relating.
Since the well being of the body is a sum total of the well being of the heart, mind, strength, and soul, it follows that a transformative relationship with God can manifest itself not only in cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and relational healing, but in physical healing as well.
Additional Therapeutic Approaches Used
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Solution-Focused Therapy
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Collaborative Therapy
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Narrative Therapy
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Non-Violent Communication
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Skills, Mindfulness.