MY APPROACH:AN INTERACTIVE THERAPIST IN TORONTO WHO GIVES FEEDBACK
My Mission as a Therapist in Toronto, ON.
As described, first and foremost I am an active therapist who provides feedback. To me, going to a therapist who says little except “go on” and “that sounds hard,” etc. seems like an expensive waste of time.
I earned my Ph.D. in psychology in 1995. By this point in my career I have acquired extensive clinical experience with many different types of conditions- anxiety disorders, depressive symptoms, personality disorders, many types of trauma, and a plethora of other difficulties. I also have extensive training and clinical experience with couples. In fact, couples work makes up a significant part of my practice.
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What to Expect!
Dedicated to Your Well Being.
From all of this experience, I have developed various skills and resourceful approaches to guide you through the therapeutic process.
For example, one skill is my ability to understand many self destructive and counterproductive patterns (often unconscious) that you may fall into.
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Other skills that I offer are my use of constructive questions to build your self awareness. Another is that in giving feedback, I know when to be a bit firm and nudge you into greater discovery, and when to be more gentle instead.
One final point for now, and it is a very important one. My approach heavily involves exploration of your past, or what I call your “backstory.” While exploring the past may seem like a cliche about psychotherapy, that actually isn’t the case anymore. In fact, many current therapy techniques minimize the importance of one’s past experiences, and I think this is a big mistake. That is because I believe that we are all the product of our experiences in life and our relationships. We unconsciously bring the expectations, fears, defense mechanisms, perceptions, and reactions that we learned earlier in life into our current life, often with detrimental consequences.
