In working with adults, youth, and children, we see psychotherapy and counselling as an opportunity to experience collaboration and authentic connection to self, other, and the world, no matter how old you are. The practice is guided by the understanding that therapy must include your whole person which means we strive to creatively facilitate a supportive, respectful, and developmentally appropriate therapeutic relationship rooted in relational safety and acceptance while also promoting growth and change at your pace.
Some issues we can help with include:
- mental health concerns such as anxiety and depression
- neurodivergence, both innate and acquired, including ADHD and Tier 1 Autism
- stress and trauma including complex PTSD
- life, career, and/or educational transitions
- relational challenges
- identity development including individuals who identify as LGBTQI+
- workplace concerns
- education and career planning
- perfectionism
Our purpose is to assist you in living a more meaningful life in which you can more deeply experience and integrate your emotions, thoughts, body, values, and spirituality.
Currently Barbara is seeing adolescents and adults. Barbara integrates expressive modalities such as image making, writing, sand tray, and play into what is usually emotionally focused work. Barbara works collaboratively with her clients using AEDP which is an approach that puts the emphasis on establishing a safe therapeutic relationship to use as secure base. When individuals feel relationally safe, we are able to work experientially with more challenging emotional experiences to facilitate healing and growth. She also incorporates mindful self compassion into her work.
We are inspired by idea of Kintsugi; Kintsugi means “golden joinery” and is the Japanese practice of rejoining broken pieces of pottery with gold. The practice sees “breakage” and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to hide. Applied to counselling, the idea is to work towards healing practicing self compassion.