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Welcome to Village Centre CBT
About CBT
Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based psychotherapy with a clear theoretical framework. CBT aims to relieve emotional distress and interpersonal difficulties in a supportive and collaborative manner and to impart a set of skills that can help you build a rewarding life.
CBT has been around for many years and generated a large body of research that produced a range of effective interventions to target anxiety, depression and interpersonal difficulties.
What to Expect in Therapy
Our first meeting is used to gather as much information as possible about your history, problems and strengths, as well as things that are important to you. You are likely going to be given some tests or monitoring sheets to complete before the next appointment. This is necessary for us to better understand the mechanisms that maintain your difficulties and to create a working model of what is happening in your life. Obviously, each person is different, with different life philosophies and aspirations. Yet many of us get stuck in self-reinforcing cycles of triggers, thoughts, emotions, actions and outcomes that all add up to create our lived reality. Therapy is about ensuring that your mind works for you and not against you.
What CBT Can Help You With
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Background Story
I have a bachelor degree in psychology from the University of Western Ontario, and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Toronto. I pursued specialization in cognitive behaviour therapy and became accredited by the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies and the Canadian Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (CACBT-ACTCC).
I opened Village Centre CBT in January 2019, after having worked for over twenty years in hospital-based mental health clinics. I loved my job. Yet, I also wanted to offer evidence-based therapy in a casual setting with a slower pace that would enable fuller attention to individual needs of my clients.
I promise not to make false promises. Village Centre CBT is focused on providing quality cognitive behavior therapy but there are no fast fit-all remedies. Still, CBT helps us gain the necessary perspective to build lives that make sense.
Mind Your Feelings
Emotions are a form of perception. You feel good after your team wins at beachball, feel sorrow when bereaved, feel frustrated when cut off in traffic. Many persons who seek therapy just want to feel good. Feeling good is not a good goal for therapy. Getting high on drugs feels good. Until it does not. So does pretending that everything is OK. Then reality comes knocking. Lives are changed through actions, not affirmations.
This blog explores concepts that can help you ensure that your emotions don’t highjack your life (e.g., being too worried to pay attention to the world around you) and still experience emotions when time comes (e.g., enjoying a relationship, being intellectually curious, grieving when faced with loss). So, Mind Your Feelings. Life without emotions is like elevator music. Pay attention to the message within your feelings and dare to live with your eyes fully open.
Let's Connect
You can book an appointment online using the booking calendar, send me an email
or call/text me at 416-550-1072.
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