Our Therapeutic Modalities
At True Balance Psychotherapy, we recognize that healing is deeply personal and that no single approach fits everyone. Our team draws from a diverse range of evidence based and humanistic therapeutic modalities to create a tailored experience that respects your unique goals, values, and pace. Whether you are looking to challenge unhelpful thought patterns, process deep emotional experiences, or understand how past dynamics shape your present world, our clinicians offer a compassionate and safe environment to facilitate meaningful change. Explore our approaches below to better understand what each modality entails, who it helps, and what you can expect when working together in our sessions.
Evidence Based & Behavioral Approaches
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT offers a structured and evidence-based approach to support clients’ focus on the connection between thoughts, emotions, and behaviours.
- Who it helps: It is effective in treatment for anxiety, depression, PTSD, and stress management.
- What to expect: In therapy, CBT is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and to learn strategies to challenge them to build more balanced thought patterns.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT focuses on promoting psychological flexibility by accepting difficult thoughts and emotions rather than avoiding them while committing to actions and behaviours that align with your values.
- Who it helps: It is effective for anxiety, depression, as well as stress, and life transitions.
- What to expect: In therapy, ACT uses six principles to help clients take meaningful action in their life through acceptance, defusing difficult thoughts, being present, recognizing the self as more than your thoughts and feelings, values, and commitment to action.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
DBT integrates cognitive behavioural modalities with mindfulness to support emotional regulation through both acceptance and modification of harmful behaviours.
Who it helps: It is effective in supporting clients with intense emotions, disregulated mood, and impulsive behaviours.
What to expect: In therapy, DBT supports clients in developing new skills to regulate emotions, improve relationships, and manage distress.
Emotion & Deep Healing Modalities
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
EFT focuses on understanding and processing your emotional experiences to alleviate distress and make meaningful changes in your connections with others and yourself.
Who it helps: It is effective for individuals and couples struggling with emotional awareness.
What to expect: In therapy, EFT offers the opportunity to explore your emotions in a safe space so that you may begin to understand and transform them from difficult to meaningful experiences.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS understands the mind as made of different parts to support understanding of your inner world so that harmony can be established within.
Who it helps: It is effective in clients with trauma, self-esteem issues, addictions, and depression.
What to expect: In therapy, IFS is used to support clients in identifying and understanding the different parts of themselves so that compassion can be fostered and a connection to your core self can be established.
Trauma Informed Therapy
Trauma Informed Therapy recognizes the widespread impact of trauma and focuses on establishing safety, trust, and control.
Who it helps: It is effective for clients who have experienced trauma and are in distress by past experiences.
What to expect: In therapy, clients are supported to focus on building safety, at their own pace, and gently process past experiences while developing healthy coping skills.
Mindful, Present, & Relational Care
Mindfulness based approaches
Mindfulness based approaches such as Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) integrate mindfulness practices to promote focus on the present moment supporting reduced emotional dysregulation.
Who it helps: It is effective for clients managing stress and life transitions and anxiety.
What to expect: In therapy, mindfulness-based approaches may be integrated through mindfulness practices, breathing techniques, and building a different connection to your thoughts and emotions.
Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt therapy is a humanistic, client centered approach to psychotherapy that emphasizes self-awareness, personal responsibility, and present moment experience.
Who it helps: It takes a holistic view of individuals, integrating mind, body, and emotions.
What to expect: It works to resolve unresolved issues from the past by bringing them into the here and now for awareness and integration.
Couples therapy models (e.g., Gottman, EFT for couples)
The Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) are two prominent, research supported approaches to couples therapy.
Who it helps: Built for partners navigating relationship distress or seeking a stronger bond.
What to expect: The Gottman Method is structured and skills based, focusing on building friendship, improving conflict management, and fostering shared meaning. In contrast, EFT is process oriented and centers on emotions, helping partners deepen their bond by exploring underlying attachment needs and vulnerabilities.
Insight Driven & Humanistic Pathways
Solution Focused Therapy
Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a goal oriented, forward looking approach that centers on developing solutions instead of examining problems.
Who it helps: Ideal for clients seeking clear goals and meaningful change in a relatively short timeframe.
What to expect: It highlights a client’s existing strengths and resources, using them to foster change, rather than focusing on past experiences or the origins of difficulties.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy is a form of talk therapy that aims to bring unconscious feelings and early experiences into awareness.
Who it helps: Helps explain how deeper dynamics influence present day behavior, relationships, and emotional challenges.
What to expect: By identifying and working through these underlying patterns, it focuses on creating enduring change rather than simply reducing symptoms.
Humanistic/Person centered Therapy
Developed by Carl Rogers, this is a non-directive, empathic approach that supports individuals in reaching self actualization by emphasizing their natural capacity for growth.
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Who it helps: Perfect for clients looking for a deeply collaborative and empowering experience.
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What to expect: It is grounded in a trusting, nonjudgmental environment where the client is seen as the expert on their own life which guides the direction of the therapeutic process.