Therapy Approaches

At Cares, our counsellors employ a variety of evidence-based approaches to provide you with most effective help possible. Please contact the office with any questions you may have about the approaches we use.

Cognitve Behavioural

Therapy

Emotion-Focused

Couples Therapy

Gottman’s Couples

Therapy

Changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, and replacing them with beneficial ones.

Managing and using emotions well in interactions between partners.  

Becoming aware of relationship needs and desires, and communicating these respectfully.

Mindfulness

Narrative Therapy

Play Therapy

Paying attention to the present moment to gain control of damaging thought processes.

Developing a new story of life events that is consistent with one’s intentions, commitments and values

Allowing children to communicate their concerns through play activities. 

Solution-Focused

Therapy

Satir Family Therapy

Systemic Therapy

Focusing on solutions to be achieved in the future, not the problems of the past.

Exploring one’s family of origin and the ability to make positive changes in one’s life. 

Understanding relationship dynamics and gaining tools to use in difficult relationships.

Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)

Neurofeedback

Reducing the impact of past experiences
that continue to intrude on present day.

As your brain learns, function improves, and the potential is that any symptoms can reduce.

Cognitve Behavioural

Therapy

Changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, and replacing them with beneficial ones.

Emotion-Focused

Couples Therapy

Managing and using emotions well in interactions between partners.  

Gottman’s Couples

Therapy

Becoming aware of relationship needs and desires, and communicating these respectfully.

Mindfulness

Paying attention to the present moment to gain control of damaging thought processes.

Narrative Therapy

Developing a new story of life events that is consistent with one’s intentions, commitments and values

Play Therapy

Allowing children to communicate their concerns through play activities. 

Solution-Focused

Therapy

Focusing on solutions to be achieved in the future, not the problems of the past.

Satir Family Therapy

Exploring one’s family of origin and the ability to make positive changes in one’s life. 

Systemic Therapy

Understanding relationship dynamics and gaining tools to use in difficult relationships.

Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)

Reducing the impact of past experiences that continue to intrude on present day.

Neurofeedback

As your brain learns, function improves, and the potential is that any symptoms can reduce.