Services
Couple’s Therapy
An intimate couple relationship can be both the most rewarding and the most challenging area of life. Each stage of the couple relationship, from learning to live together, having children, not having children, illness, retirement and other significant milestones, bring opportunities for growth and change. At times you may feel ‘stuck’, but you do not have to stay ‘stuck’.
Alexia believes that thriving in an intimate relationship is an on going process which involves a continual learning of both the art and science of loving. She is here to help you and your partner with this.
Alexia uses an integrated approach of the Couple Developmental Model, Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, and Family Systems. Each of these evidence-based approaches allows me to help you understand the impact that the past may have on your present and how emotions and behaviours are organizing your responses to one another. Using the Couple Developmental approach I begin to understand what stage your relationship is in, and I explain this to you. I encourage you to set your own autonomous goals and describe the relationship that you want to create. An overarching goal is to create a more secure attachment bond with one another, moving to expansiveness and flexibility as well as building friendship and intimacy for a deeper more satisfying connection.
Individual Therapy
The most important relationship that you have is the one with yourself. Every person has a story and my role is to help you explore and make sense of it, in this therapeutic relationship you can be yourself and feel seen and heard. Research has shown that the client-therapist relationship is the foundation to effective change. Sometimes, just by expressing your suffering and concerns out loud, in a safe non judgmental space, there can be a healthy release of emotions which begins the path to healing. Individual therapy allows you the space to explore and challenge the beliefs that you hold about yourself, and take action to create the life and future that you desire,.
Alexia works with her clients on a wide range of concerns which include, but are not limited to, anxiety, depression, grief, loss, life transition, self compassion, anger, parenting, burnout, shame and religious and/or spiritual concerns.
Alexia’s integrative therapeutic approach incorporates skills and techniques from humanistic, developmental, and cognitive behavioural, as well as psychodynamic and systemic approaches.