Psychotherapy is a structured, professional, long-term relational process designed to help you understand, integrate, and transform thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and patterns. These evidence-based frameworks listed below are used in session to help you gain insight, build skills, and transform dysfunctional emotional-behavior patterns.

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a type of talk therapy that helps you understand, process and work with emotion. Instead of ignoring your feeling, this work teaches you how to identify what you’re sensing, how to explore why you are feeling this way, how to develop a language around emotional experience. In short, EFT is about listening to your feelings and letting them guide you toward healthier connection and self expression.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is the “bread and butter” of talk therapy — considered to be the gold standard for treating many mental challenges, CBT helps you understand the intersection between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Often, our minds get stuck in unhelpful patterns which, unintentionally, make us feel anxious, sad, or stressed or behave in ways we don’t want to. CBT teaches you to notice unhelpful thinking patterns, challenge and reframe them, and then try new behaviors that lead to better outcomes.

Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) is a directive therapeutic modality that focuses on relationships and social connections as a way to improve emotional well-being. IPT is particularly helpful during the perinatal phase, when the most important thing for mothers is receiving support from the people around you. With IPT, you learn strategies for handling challenges and communication techniques that will translate directly into change.

Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) is a type of talk therapy that focuses on finding practical solutions and building upon your strengths. Similar to 'coaching’, when used in tandem with IPT, this modality helps you identify what’s working in your life, set clear goals and take action.

Shadow Work is a process of exploring and understanding the parts of ourselves we usually hide or deny (anger, fear, jealousy, desires, insecurity). The aim is not to rid ourselves of these parts, rather, to understand and integrate them so they no longer control us unconsciously. This deeply transformative work helps you bring hidden parts of yourself into awareness, heal old patterns, and become a more whole and authentic version of yourself.

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-focused approach that helps you release trauma stored in the body. I currently hold the belief that trauma is stored — not in the mind — but in certain parts of the bod. Complicated birth(s), difficulty pregnancies, or early traumatic experiences are physically stored in our muscles, fascia & cells. As a result, the release doesn’t happen through the mind or intellectualization of trauma, rather, through energetic release. Considered to be a bottom- up method, this helps heal the mind through the body.

Walk-and-talk Therapy: Do you process thoughts and feelings best while in motion? Walk-and-talk therapy happens while walking side-by-side instead of sitting face-to-face in an office. How it works: you and the therapist meet outdoors (often on a quiet trail or park path) and have your session while moving at a comfortable pace. Walking can help you feel more relaxed, less on the spot, and usually more open. The movement and fresh air also supports nervous system regulation, making it easier to process emotions.