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Couples Therapy

Using Emotion Focused Therapy, you and your partner learn to identify and shift negative interactional cycles you are trapped in (demand/withdraw, attack/attack, freeze/flee), replacing blame, distancing, and criticism with new emotional experiences of being accessible, responsive, and engaged. Using Gottman Therapy, you and your partner learn to accept "bids for connection" and influence, replace the “four horsemen of the apocalypse” (defensiveness, criticism, stonewalling, contempt), strengthen "love maps", nurture fondness and admiration, and explore the art of compromise. Based in Psychodynamic therapy, you will work on healing historical hurts that affect the couple dynamic today, and find new and connected ways to meet your needs as individuals and as a pair.

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My background

I am a Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario, with an MA in Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Spirituality from Saint Paul University, including a special focus on couples and families. I have additional training  in Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples (Externship in Emotion Focused Couples Therapy), Gottman Method Couples Therapy (completed Gottman Level One Training and Gottman Leader training), and Psychodynamic Therapy (Self-In-Relationship Institute 8 years of post-graduate training). In order to best meet client needs, I participate in ongoing clinical training and consultation on assessment and treatment.

Get in Touch
To arrange a complimentary 15-minute Meet and Greet session, please contact me in the form provided.

Barrhaven, ON, K2J 5G9

613-234-8169

dsmolash@gmail.xom

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Therapy offered online only

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