Looking for professional counselling in Ottawa? Therapy offers a supportive space to work through challenges, strengthen relationships, and build a life that feels more balanced and meaningful. Whether you’re navigating personal stress, relationship struggles, or major life transitions, counselling can help you feel more confident, grounded, and emotionally resilient.
Therapy supports personal growth, self-esteem, emotional regulation, and healthier communication. Over time, many clients notice improved relationships, clearer decision-making, and a stronger sense of purpose and wellbeing.
My approach to psychotherapy in Ottawa is integrative and client-centred. Sessions are tailored to your goals and may combine practical tools with deeper emotional and relational work to support long-term change.
Individual Counselling in Ottawa
Individual therapy provides a safe, non-judgmental space for self-reflection and growth. It can help you better understand yourself, develop coping strategies, and move forward with clarity and confidence.
Individual counselling can help with:
- Stress, burnout, and feeling overwhelmed
- Anxiety and depression, including social anxiety
- Anger management and emotional regulation
- Self-esteem, confidence, and personal insight
- Decision-making and life direction
- Trauma recovery, including EMDR therapy in Ottawa
- Grief, loss, and healing
- Coping with illness or medical stress
- Life transitions such as career changes, parenthood, menopause, aging, and retirement
Couples and Relationship Counselling
Relationships take work, and sometimes extra support makes all the difference. Couples and relationship counselling in Ottawa helps partners communicate more clearly, repair trust, and strengthen emotional connection.
Relationship counselling can support:
- Improving relationships with others
- Communication and conflict resolution
- Difficult or emotionally charged conversations
- Clarifying needs, boundaries, and priorities
- Family, marital, and long-term relationship concerns
- Common-law, partner, and 2SLGBTQ+ relationships
- Parenting challenges and blended family dynamics
- Intimacy, sexuality, and emotional closeness
- Infidelity, addictions, workplace stress, or third-party influences
- Separation, divorce, and mediation support
Therapy Approaches Used
Therapy is tailored to your needs and may include:
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
- IMAGO Relationship Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Schema Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
- Sensorimotor and somatic therapies
- Family systems and relational approaches
- Sandtray / WorldPlay Therapy