Ontario Mental Health Therapy

Therapy Modalities

Our team is trained in a variety of modalities to ensure your therapy session is tailored to both your goals and needs.

Modality Overview

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Attachment Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
EMDR Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Exposure Therapy

Internal Family Systems
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Motivational Interviewing
Narrative Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Somatic Therapy

When you’re ready to live with more confidence, control and connection, Ontario Mental Health Therapy can help.

Attachment Therapy

Attachment Therapy helps you explore how early life relationships have shaped your patterns of connection, trust, and self-worth. Whether you're struggling with abandonment wounds, anxious attachment, or difficulty forming healthy relationships, this approach provides a path to healing and security. We approach attachment therapy with an awareness of cultural and generational differences in how love, care, and safety are expressed. Many racialized clients have experienced disrupted attachments due to colonization, migration, or intergenerational trauma. We help you explore these roots with compassion while creating new patterns of safety, belonging, and emotional intimacy.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is one of the most well-known and widely used therapeutic approaches. It focuses on the connection between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours—helping you identify unhelpful patterns and reframe them in more empowering ways. Our culturally responsive CBT approach acknowledges how racism, generational trauma, and societal pressures can shape internal narratives for people of colour. We help you challenge internalized beliefs, break cycles of self-doubt, and foster confidence rooted in your lived experience and cultural identity.

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) is a compassionate, skills-based approach that helps individuals navigate intense emotions, build resilience, and improve relationships. DBT blends cognitive strategies with mindfulness to support you in managing overwhelming feelings without judgment. At our practice, DBT is delivered with cultural humility—acknowledging the real-life systemic and generational challenges faced by Black, Indigenous, and other people of colour. Whether you’re navigating intergenerational trauma, identity-based stress, or emotional dysregulation, DBT can offer practical tools to help you feel more grounded, empowered, and in control of your life.

EMDR Therapy

EMDR is a trauma-focused therapy that helps the brain reprocess distressing memories so they no longer feel overwhelming or intrusive. It is especially effective for PTSD, anxiety, and trauma related to racism, violence, or childhood experiences. At our practice, we adapt EMDR through a culturally affirming lens—recognizing the unique impact of racial trauma, microaggressions, and generational pain. EMDR allows you to process trauma without needing to talk through every detail, making it a powerful and empowering tool for deep healing.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an evidence-based approach that helps individuals and couples build stronger, more secure emotional bonds. EFT guides you in identifying and expressing your core needs while addressing patterns of disconnection and fear that may have developed due to past trauma or relational wounds. For racialized individuals, relationships are often shaped by systemic oppression, cultural expectations, and unspoken generational dynamics. Our therapists use EFT in a culturally sensitive way to help you reclaim emotional safety, navigate attachment wounds, and foster authentic connection—in romantic relationships, family dynamics, or even with yourself.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy

Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy helps you explore and heal the different “parts” of yourself—whether it’s the inner critic, the wounded child, or the part of you just trying to survive. It fosters self-compassion, clarity, and internal balance by helping you reconnect with your “Self,” the calm and wise core within you. IFS is especially powerful for clients from marginalized communities who have had to compartmentalize their identities to survive in unsafe systems. This approach allows space for all parts of your identity—cultural, generational, spiritual—to be acknowledged, healed, and integrated.

Motivational Interviewing (MI)

Motivational Interviewing is a conversational and client-centered approach that helps you explore and resolve ambivalence about change. It’s especially helpful when you're feeling stuck, unsure, or overwhelmed by the idea of transformation. For clients from marginalized communities, this approach affirms autonomy and honors the complex realities behind hesitation or burnout. Our therapists use MI to empower you—without shame or pressure—to align your goals with your values and take steps toward change on your terms.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term, goal-oriented therapy that emphasizes your strengths, resilience, and the changes you want to see in your life. Rather than focusing on problems or the past, SFBT helps you identify solutions and build a vision for your future. We understand that for many people of colour, there is little room to pause—healing needs to be effective, relevant, and affirming. SFBT is especially helpful for clients looking for clear progress, direction, and practical strategies, all while working with therapists who understand the cultural and systemic factors at play in your life.

Somatic Therapy

Somatic Therapy reconnects the mind and body, helping you process trauma by tuning into physical sensations, movement, and embodied awareness. This approach is especially helpful for those whose trauma has been held in the body due to chronic stress, oppression, or survival-mode living. For people of colour, trauma is often stored not just in memory, but in the body—passed down across generations. Somatic therapy offers a gentle, culturally responsive way to release that tension, reclaim your sense of safety, and come home to yourself.