https://www.pspsychology.ca/home daily 1.0 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feca1b697674b25fa55598f/1609558641635-KYS84UNH64F4AFA4RFCQ/p+o+s+t+s+c+r+i+p+t+%281%29.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feca1b697674b25fa55598f/b4340429-fe25-4b2f-83ce-0a8dde6bab84/DSC00954.jpg https://www.pspsychology.ca/approach daily 0.75 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feca1b697674b25fa55598f/0d5b785a-fcdd-44d7-8a6b-b4d825df5db3/27150051930_05f71aa009_o.jpg Approach - EMDR & Attachment-Focused EMDR Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an effective therapy for the treatment of trauma. EMDR therapy incorporates bilateral stimulation (i.e. both sides of the brain and body) into a comprehensive approach that processes and releases information in the mind and body, allowing for the relief of psychological stresses. Attachment-focused EMDR (AF-EMDR) emphasizes a reparative therapeutic relationship integrating a combination of Resource Tapping™ (Parnell, 2008), EMDR, and talk therapy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feca1b697674b25fa55598f/dbba59e1-48ef-4a1a-8637-7f6754ec5a16/DSC_8673.jpg Approach - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) ACT is a mindfulness-based therapy that helps clients learn new skills to deal with painful thoughts and feelings in a way that allows them to live a more valued life. ACT is an empirically based intervention with a focus on building psychological flexibility through acceptance of thoughts and feelings and commitment to valued change. Through this intervention, clients can learn to make healthy contact with their internal experiences, gain skills to re-contextualize and accept those experiences, develop greater clarity, and commit to behaviour change. Together we build from there to create important changes and desired outcomes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feca1b697674b25fa55598f/da87bbc0-e81e-4e84-b7df-03c63db954b1/DSC_5534.jpg Approach - Compassionate Inquiry This approach, developed by Dr. Gabor Mate, uses gentle questioning to identify the roots of the stories we tell ourselves. Clients learn what unconscious beliefs are being held, where those beliefs originated from and how to let go of those beliefs, using compassion and understanding. There is a strong emphasis on somatic (body) listening and respect for the body’s innate knowledge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feca1b697674b25fa55598f/472b916d-c228-4b06-a7f0-ddc064b0e196/DSC_0498.jpg Approach - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy CBT is an action-oriented psycho-social modality which focuses on recognizing, challenging and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and improving emotional regulation. CBT emphasizes the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feca1b697674b25fa55598f/8fe25045-4e29-4b8d-8275-edfc0b55c433/DSC_5586.jpg Approach - Parts Work We have parts of ourselves - not multiple personalities, just parts, who help us throughout our lives. For example, many of us saying things like, “part of me wants to go and part of me doesn’t” - these our the parts! Trauma is often held within specific parts of ourselves, and this approach to therapy helps to identify these parts, build more nurturing relationships with them and ease the lines between the different parts, leading to reduced psychological distress. https://www.pspsychology.ca/about daily 0.75 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feca1b697674b25fa55598f/21b5c359-c57a-4f8d-850d-001a3c45edee/DSC01014-3.jpg About I’m a Clinical Psychologist with a Master's degree in Counselling Psychology and Parnell Institute training in Attachment-Focused EMDR. I provide individual therapy for adolescents and adults and am registered in Alberta (CAP #4798) and New Zealand (NZPB # 90-07035). 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