Individual Therapy for Insecure Attachment & Relationship Healing in Ontario

Why do individual therapy?

One-on-one therapy sessions provide the space to work with a licensed therapist who is dedicated to helping you navigate life's challenges and move in the direction you want to go.

• Move beyond developing self-insight into your patterns and experience embodied change.

• Increase your capacity to be with your emotions.

• Increased nervous system regulation.

• Improve your relationship with yourself and others.

• Become more securely attached and self-assured.

• Become less dependent on validation from others.

• Connect with the parts of yourself you've been cutting yourself off from.

• Feel more integrated and whole.

• Increase self-acceptance and self-compassion.

• Increase your capacity to bring authenticity into your life.

• Bring your heart into your relationships.

• Improve your physical health and sleep.

• Increase your vitality and life satisfaction.

Sometimes, even when you’ve tried so hard to heal and grow, it can feel as though there is yet another layer to unravel, and other times, we don’t know where to begin. That can be difficult to navigate alone.

I aim to walk alongside you when you cannot see the forest for the trees as a trusted, supportive presence, guiding you to see from a broader vantage point. Through online attachment therapy and insecure attachment therapy in Ontario, I support you in your self-exploration, helping you take a new self-concept and self-regulation into your world.

Therapy is an opportunity to remove the masks you show to yourself and to the world and explore what's beneath in a safe, empathetic space.

Therapy is a collaborative process; I will work with you to create a treatment plan using the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), Brainspotting and/or Internal Family Systems that meets your individual needs and intentions. I am committed to providing quality care to each and every one of my clients. I understand that seeking therapy can be a vulnerable experience, and I strive to create a welcoming environment where you can feel comfortable sharing your thoughts and feelings.

If you're ready to start your journey toward healing and growth, I invite you to schedule a consultation. I am here to support you every step of the way.

Anxiety and Depression

Anxiety and depressive disorders are not symptoms to be managed or eliminated; they are often expressions of unresolved developmental trauma. NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) considers how early relational and attachment patterns impact self-regulation, identity, and capacity for connection, which can manifest as depression and anxiety.

Relationship Challenges

Stress and Anger

Complex Trauma

Therapy for complex trauma, also known as developmental or attachment trauma involves clarifying what you want for yourself and discovering what is internally getting in the way of you experiencing what you want. Learning how to relate to yourself with compassion and manage the overwhelming feelings and dysregulation associated with complex trauma. It also involves working through the barriers that limit the individual's ability to form meaningful relationships, better manage emotions, and achieve personal goals in a safe and supportive space. Therapy for complex trauma can help individuals learn how to cope with their trauma and lead a more fulfilling life.

Through the lens of early attachment dynamics, core needs that were compromised in childhood can result in maladaptive relational patterns, such as:

• Fear of intimacy or vulnerability

• Difficulty setting boundaries

• Chronic people-pleasing or caretaking

• Hyper-independence

• Avoidance of conflict or emotional dependence

• Withholding, avoidance and self-isolation from relationships

• Relationships frequently wrought with challenges

• Self-judgement and shame

• Distorted relational beliefs

• Excessive need for control

  Therapy provides a safe, non-judgmental space to explore and bring awareness to your relational patterns your relationship challenges and to deepen your capacity to connect with yourself and others in a way that brings more fulfilment. You will be able to identify and release unconscious strategies that are no longer adaptive.

Insecure Attachment

Self-Esteem

Insecure attachment is seen the result of early relational trauma, where a child’s needs for connection, safety, and autonomy were compromised. These traumatic experiences do not necessarily involve overt abuse but can include chronic misattunement, neglect, or emotional unavailability from caregivers. The adaptive strategies developed to survive these experiences form the basis of attachment patterns that persist into adulthood, shaping how individuals relate to themselves and others.

Through insecure attachment therapy in Ontario, we will work with your current relational experiences, including how attachment patterns show up in the therapeutic relationship. This allows clients to develop awareness of their unconscious strategies and explore new ways of relating to themselves and others. With online attachment therapy, you can identifying and transform survival strategies and reconnect with core developmental needs helping you to develop more secure, fulfilling relationships.

NARM views self-esteem as arising from a person’s relationship to their authentic self rather than from external validation or achievements. When individuals are disconnected from their true feelings and needs, their self-esteem is often fragile or conditional. Genuine self-esteem comes from compassionate self-acceptance and the ability to stay connected to oneself, even in the face of challenges or imperfections.

Negative self-concept and self-esteem often results from internalized beliefs formed in response to early relational trauma. These views of oneself may be distorted or limiting. A child who learned that expressing emotions led to rejection might internalize a belief like, “I am too needy,” forming a negative view of themself.

Through insecure attachment therapy in Ontario, you can build your self-esteem, self-worth and self-compassion that isn't reliant on what others think of you.

Chronic stress is a state of persistent autonomic dysregulation, where the nervous system remains stuck in a heightened or collapsed survival response. When dysregulation results from unresolved early relational trauma, being in a state of safety or rest, feels foreign. The body and mind become conditioned to operate as if under continuous threat, even when no immediate danger is present. Anger is a natural and protective emotional response to boundary violations or unmet needs. Healing involves working with the nervous system in the present moment, completing emotions that have been disowned, reconnecting with core needs to support nervous system regulation and to restore emotional flexibility.