DBT is a structured, evidence-based therapy designed for people who struggle with intense emotions, impulsivity, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, or difficulty maintaining balanced relationships. It aims to help you accept and process your emotions while also building skills to change unhelpful behaviors and feel more in control of your life.

Key Features:

• Individual Therapy Sessions: Weekly one-on-one meetings with your therapist to work on your personal goals, address crises, and apply DBT skills to real-life situations.

• Skills Training Group: Group sessions where you learn and practice core DBT skills such mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.

• Diary Cards & Homework: You’ll track your emotions, behaviors, and use of skills between sessions to monitor progress and observe patterns over time.

• Phone Coaching: Access to therapist support outside of sessions for real-time guidance during stressful or crisis moments.

• Therapist Consultation Team: Your therapist is supported by a team of DBT professionals, ensuring consistent quality of care.

Benefits:

• Reduced self-harm and suicidal thoughts

• Improved emotion regulation and reduced emotional overwhelm

• Better relationships through more effective communication and boundary-setting

• Greater stability in daily life and improved ability to cope with distress without harmful behaviors

DBT often lasts 6 to 12 months or longer depending on your needs. The structured, multi-component format helps ensure that skills are not just learned but practiced and integrated into everyday life.

DBT-PTSD is a structured, evidence-based therapy specifically designed for people who have experienced severe or repeated trauma and who also struggle with intense emotions, self-destructive behaviors, or symptoms of Complex PTSD. It combines the skills and structure of DBT with targeted trauma processing to help clients move beyond survival mode and toward a more balanced, fulfilling life.

Key Features:

• Stabilization & Safety: The first phase focuses on reducing harmful behaviors such as self-harm, suicidal thoughts, or substance use, while teaching skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance.

• Trauma Processing: Once safety and stability are established, clients work with their therapist to gradually process traumatic memories in a safe, structured way.

• Mindfulness & Acceptance: Ongoing mindfulness practices help clients stay grounded in the present moment while reducing shame and self-blame.

• Skills for Relationships: Clients learn how to navigate interpersonal triggers, communicate effectively, and rebuild trust with others.

• Integration & Growth: The final phase supports clients in reclaiming their lives, setting meaningful goals, and developing a stronger sense of self beyond trauma.

Benefits:

• Reduction in PTSD and Complex PTSD symptoms

• Improved emotional stability and ability to handle triggers

• Decrease in self-harm and suicidal behaviors

• Greater self-compassion and reduced shame

• Stronger, healthier relationships

DBT-PTSD is often delivered over 12 months or more, depending on individual needs. It is designed to provide both safety and depth, ensuring trauma is addressed while also building the practical skills needed for long-term recovery.

EFT is an evidence-based therapy that helps individuals understand and transform the emotional patterns shaping their lives. Rooted in attachment theory, it focuses on how early relationships and past experiences affect current emotions, behaviors, and relationships, with oneself and with others.

Key Features:

• Attachment Focus: Helps clients explore how attachment patterns shape emotions, coping strategies, and relationships.

• Emotion Exploration: Clients learn to recognize and work with their core emotions, such as fear, sadness, or shame, instead of avoiding or suppressing them.

• Transforming Patterns: The therapy supports clients in shifting from self-criticism or avoidance toward greater self-acceptance and resilience.

• Corrective Emotional Experiences: In session, individuals practice new ways of engaging with emotions and inner experiences, fostering healing and growth.

• Integration: Clients consolidate new emotional patterns, allowing for lasting change in self-understanding and relationships.

Benefits:

• Greater emotional clarity and regulation

• Increased self-compassion and self-acceptance

• Improved relationships with others through healthier attachment patterns

• Reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression, and emotional distress

EFi typically takes 12–20 sessions, depending on the individual’s needs. It is particularly effective for people struggling with the emotional impact of past experiences, relationship difficulties, or patterns of feeling stuck in cycles of self-doubt or disconnection.

ACT is an evidence-based therapy that helps individuals build a more flexible and values-driven life. Rather than trying to eliminate painful thoughts or emotions, ACT teaches clients to change their relationship with them and creating space for new ways of living that align with what truly matters.

Key Features:

• Mindfulness Practices: Clients learn to observe thoughts and feelings without judgment, reducing the power of negative experiences.

• Acceptance Strategies: Encourages allowing difficult emotions to be present, instead of struggling against them.

• Defusion Techniques: Helps individuals create distance from unhelpful thoughts, so they no longer dictate behavior.

• Values Exploration: Identifies what is most meaningful in life and uses these values to guide decisions and actions.

• Committed Action: Supports individuals in taking concrete steps toward living in alignment with their values, even in the presence of challenges.

Benefits:

• Reduced avoidance of painful thoughts and emotions

• Increased psychological flexibility

• Greater alignment between actions and personal values

• Improved well-being and quality of life

ACT is typically delivered in 12–20 sessions, depending on the individual’s needs. It is particularly effective for trauma-related concerns, anxiety, depression, chronic stress, and clients feeling “stuck” despite past therapy.

CPT is a structured, evidence-based treatment specifically designed for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related trauma concerns. It focuses on identifying and challenging unhelpful beliefs that may develop after a traumatic event, helping individuals gain new perspectives and reduce trauma-related symptoms.

Key Features:

• Psychoeducation: Clients learn how trauma impacts thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

• Cognitive Restructuring: Identifies “stuck points” (rigid, unhelpful beliefs) and teaches clients skills to challenge them and have a more nuanced understanding of the traumatic event, themselves or the world.

• Trauma Processing: Clients practice discussing and writing about their experiences to reduce avoidance and emotional distress.

• Skill Building: Provides tools to manage guilt, shame, and self-blame often associated with trauma.

• Homework Practice: Structured exercises reinforce skills and support progress between sessions.

Benefits:

• Significant reduction in PTSD symptoms

• Improved mood and daily functioning

• Decreased self-blame and guilt

• Stronger coping skills for managing triggers

CPT is usually delivered in 12+ sessions and has been shown to be highly effective for individuals struggling with PTSD and related difficulties.

Prolonged Exposure (PE) is a structured, evidence-based therapy designed to help individuals gradually confront trauma memories and situations they have been avoiding. By approaching, rather than avoiding these painful experiences, PE helps reduce the power of trauma memories over daily life.

Key Features:

• Psychoeducation: Clients learn how avoidance maintains PTSD symptoms and how facing fears can reduce them.

• Imaginal Exposure: Guided retelling of the traumatic memory in a safe environment to process and reduce distress.

• In Vivo Exposure: Gradual facing of avoided (but otherwise safe) places, people, or activities linked to the trauma in real life.

• Emotional Processing: Reflection after exposures to recognize new perspectives and reduce negative beliefs.

• Homework Practice: Structured assignments to practice exposure techniques between sessions.

Benefits:

• Significant reduction in PTSD symptoms

• Decreased avoidance and anxiety

• Greater sense of safety and confidence

• Improved ability to engage in daily life and relationships

PE is typically delivered in 8–15 sessions and is one of the most well-researched, effective treatments for PTSD and trauma-related conditions.

Not all clients who come to therapy have PTSD, but many struggle with challenges that are shaped by difficult or overwhelming life experiences. A trauma-informed approach recognizes how past experiences may influence current struggles such as anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, OCD and others, even if trauma is not the main focus. This ensures therapy is safe, supportive, and tailored to the client’s unique history and needs.

Key Features:

• Broad Application: Used for conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, and relationship difficulties.

• Safety & Trust: Emphasis on creating a therapeutic environment where clients feel understood and respected.

• Collaborative Approach: Clients are active participants in setting goals and shaping treatment.

• Adapted Interventions: Evidence-based therapies (e.g., CBT, ACT, EFT, DBT) are adjusted with a trauma lens.

• Ongoing Feedback: Regular check-ins and progress tracking to ensure treatment is effective and responsive.

Benefits:

• Reduced symptoms of depression, anxiety, and emotional distress

• Greater self-awareness and self-compassion

• Improved relationships and daily functioning

• Skills to manage stress and prevent relapse

Trauma-informed treatment can vary in length depending on the condition and goals, but it always emphasizes safety, personalization, and respect for each client’s lived experience.

While Trauma Care Psychology focuses in trauma-related concerns, we also provide therapy for individuals and couples facing non-trauma-related challenges. Many clients come to us seeking support for issues like anxiety, depression, stress management, perinatal mental health, family conflict or relationship difficulties, even when trauma is not part of their story.

Key Features:

• Wide Range of Concerns: Support for mood disorders, anxiety, burnout, grief, life transitions, and couples’ issues.

• Evidence-Based Care: Approaches like CBT, ACT, EFT, and DBT are used to address symptoms and strengthen coping skills.

• Goal-Oriented: Clients and therapists collaborate to define goals and create a clear treatment plan.

• Flexible Approach: Therapy is tailored to each client’s personality, needs, and preferences.

• Practical Tools: Strategies are provided for managing emotions, improving communication, and handling daily stress.

• Culturally-sensitive: We pay close attention to your cultural background and aim to provide care that honours your background and lived experiences.

Benefits:

• Reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety

• Greater clarity and emotional balance

• Strengthened relationships and communication

• Practical skills for navigating life’s challenges

The length and structure of therapy depend on the client’s needs and goals, but our commitment remains the same: personalized, evidence-based, culturally-sensitive care that helps clients move forward with confidence.