
Psychotherapy
At The Mindfulness Centre, we provide opportunities for students and patients to seek help for themselves through a number of psychotherapeutic modalities.
Our approach builds resilience through living an authentic life and the exploration of one’s hidden unconscious personal truths. We emphasize exploring the sometimes uncomfortable realities we need to face rather than superficially validating what we want to hear.
Psychotherapy is a process through which clients work with a trained psychotherapist in a safe, caring, and confidential environment to address concerns that have affected their lives. The work includes exploring their feelings, beliefs, or behaviours, working through challenging or influential memories, identifying aspects of their lives that they would like to change, learning to better understand themselves and others, setting personal goals, and working toward desired change.
People seek psychotherapy for a wide variety of reasons, from coping with major life challenges or childhood trauma to dealing with depression or anxiety or simply desiring personal growth and greater self-knowledge. Depending on the client’s unique needs and personal goals for therapy, the client and therapist may work together for as few as two to three sessions or as long as several years. The work may be more practical and advice-oriented (‘counselling’), or it may also entail more intense thought patterns restructuring or in-depth exploration of the unconscious forces affecting their lives (‘psychotherapy’). Individuals may also come to our therapists for the occasional session to check in and fine-tune their meditation techniques.
Our unique approach:
- Incorporates mindfulness and the latest research from Interpersonal Neurobiology into the psychotherapeutic process
- Dives deeply into how the mind interacts with the brain, and how disorder and rigidity can be transformed by rewiring the brain into integration and harmony
- Facilitates the use of empathy and insight to foster a deeper understanding of self and others within relationships
- Promotes the development of a coherent life narrative that facilitates a shift towards health and wellbeing
- Includes trauma-specific interventions