Individual Therapy
Improve Your Wellbeing and Mental Health
Are you feeling down, alone or overwhelmed about parts of life, work or relationships?
Do you struggle with difficult emotions or managing your mental health?
We all want to be the best version of ourselves, but life presents us with challenges that are unexpected, that we are unprepared for or are beyond our control.
It's important to know you aren't alone at these times. How you are adjusting, coping, and responding doesn't define you. It just makes you human.
It's okay to be right where you are.
There's nothing wrong with you.
You matter.
Therapeutic Approaches:
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MBCT) helps people become more aware of unhelpful thoughts, emotional reactions and stress patterns. Clients learn to slow down, observe their internal experience without judgment and choose responses that support clarity and calm. This approach reduces anxiety and rumination, builds emotional balance and strengthens the ability to stay present in difficult moments.
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) helps people understand the attachment patterns that shape their responses to stress and relationships. Clients learn to recognize the underlying emotions that contribute to anxiety, depression and other mental health problems and behaviours. EFIT supports people to slow down, understand their needs and fears, and respond to themselves with greater compassion, creating space for healing and healthier connection with others.
Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) helps people work gently with shame, self-criticism and long-standing emotional pain. Clients learn to understand how these patterns developed and how to respond to themselves with warmth, courage and understanding. This approach builds emotional safety, increases resilience and supports a more confident and compassionate relationship with oneself and others.
These approaches can help you:
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Individual Counselling
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Benefits of Counselling
For those seeking alternatives to medication, counselling is:
For those requiring medication:
Medication can help you turn down the volume. Counselling will help you change the channel.
Online Counselling
Approved provider for:
Nova Scotia Victim Services Criminal Injuries Counselling Program
Nova Scotia Department of Community Services Child Welfare Services Program
Indigenous Services Canada Non-insured Health Benefits Program for First Nations and Inuit
Interim Federal Health Program
Public Service Commission of Canada









