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Our Approach

Everyone struggles and needs support sometimes. Genuine, caring, accepting, and easy to talk to, we help clients heal and achieve their goals.
While not everyone has experienced trauma, many people have. To provide a safe and healing experience, I work with a trauma informed approach. This means we ensure that clients have choice in therapy, and (when applicable) we support clients to develop grounding skills they need for any processing work that we do.
With an attentive, encouraging, and respectful presence, we also offer a collaborative and integrative (multi-form) approach. Meaning, we provide clients choice in the forms of therapy that we use; the choices we offer are based on what research indicates to be effective for clients' challenges, as well as clients' personality, wants and needs.
Our most frequently used forms of counselling/therapy are Family Systems informed Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Somatic Experiencing, and Solutions Focused. We also often guide clients through inner-child/re-parenting work. See Forms of Therapy section for a full list of the modalities we might use.
Teens/Youth
Being a teen can be hard. Like adults, teens often need someone understanding and accepting outside of their friends and family to talk with. Although our basic counselling theory and approach is the same with youth, Shoreline Counselling Therapists have developed special skills, like tapping into our inner teen, to connect and build relationships with youth, so that therapy can be effective. See our About section to learn more about some of our experience working with teens/youth.