Willow Tree Psychotherapy

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Welcoming & transforming in each session

Willow Tree Psychotherapy provides clients an opportunity to share their experiences, joys, and challenges. Strengths-based therapy provides support to help people develop their skills and abilities and to use their resources to resolve problems. To lead a happier, fuller life.

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About Willow Tree

My approach to counselling is quite simple.

I believe everyone deserves a voice. I believe everyone deserves the opportunity to be provided with a safe space to share their experience, and I believe every client should have the expectation that I will meet their needs, with compassion, empathy, and clinical integrity.

Types of Therapy

EMDR

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy may help reduce symptoms of trauma, particularly for people with post-traumatic stress disorder. EMDR may also help with anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and complicated grief. EMDR aims to reduce symptoms of trauma by changing how your memories are stored in your brain.

Narrative

Narrative therapy is a form of therapy that aims to separate the individual from the problem, allowing the individual to externalize their issues rather than internalize them. It relies on the individual's own skills and sense of purpose to guide them through difficult times

ACT

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) focuses on helping patients to behave more consistently with their own values and apply mindfulness and acceptance skills to their responses to uncontrollable experiences.

Attachment

Attachment theory, developed by therapist John Bowlby, seeks to provide the framework for how the attachment system develops, presents and connects––and disconnects––in our relationships. Contemporary research shows that early experiences in childhood create a “blueprint” for how we interact in adult relationships—and can affect our behaviors, expectations and perceptions, often unconsciously. Many of our “triggers” or reactions are rooted in this relational template.

Relational Therapy

Relational theory, which holds that the sense of connection healthy relationships provide is an essential aspect of human well-being, suggests that when this connection is absent, mental and emotional concerns can result. Relational Therapy can help individuals process and heal from past traumas impacting their current relationships. Additionally, studies have indicated that Relational Therapy helps treat various mental health issues, such as PTSD, anxiety, and depression.

CBT

CBT is a structured, time-limited, problem-focused and goal oriented form of psychotherapy. CBT helps people learn to identify, question and change how their thoughts, attitudes and beliefs relate to the emotional and behavioural reactions that cause them difficulty.

“The past affects the present even without our being aware of it.”
- Francine Shapiro (originator and developer of EMDR)
“Every time we ask a question, we’re generating a possible version of a life.”
- David Epston (Co-developer of Narrative Therapy)
“The problem is the problem, the person is not the problem.”
— Michael White & David Epston (co-developers of Narrative Therapy)
“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
“Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
“ It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become”
-Dr. Seuss, From: The Lorax
“You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
- J. R. R. Tolkien”

I acknowledge the lands and people of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation that are covered under the Williams Treaties. We are situated on the Traditional Territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation which includes Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. I am grateful for the opportunity to work and provide care on these lands, which are home to Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island.

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