MFT Solutions: Healing Relationships

Solution-Focused Couple, Family and Individual Therapy

I offer psychotherapy as a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist (RMFT).

Psychotherapy comes in many different shapes and sizes. There are, for example:

• Psychiatrists
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Pastoral Counsellors, and
• Registered Marriage and Family Therapists (RMFT)

I provide relationally-based psychotherapy: I believe that people can be best helped in the shortest time using an approach that focuses more on their relationships than on what's going on inside of them.

I also believe in focusing on what's right with you rather than what's wrong.

I will listen to you talk about what's wrong. I will help you explore what's going on inside of you. But the direction we will take as we talk, hopefully, will be out (your relationships) and up (what's working, and how to do more of it).

And I will do all this in 3-6 sessions.

Many people believe that therapy takes a long time to produce results. Some therapists even think this.

However evidence accumulated from the results of psychotherapies practiced over the past 50 years shows that therapy is brief and effective.

The modal number of sessions is one. This means that the most frequent visitor to my office is the client who sees me just once. These clients don't just drop out: they receive significant help in one session.

Among all the types of psychotherapy practiced, the average number of sessions is 6-8. My clients usually stay for 3-6 sessions.

All therapy is, on average, brief and effective.

You can read more about this in this book.

You may wish to see a psychotherapist that your health insurance covers. Many insurance providers cover RMFTs or can be persuaded to add RMFTs to their coverage.

My unique approach as an RMFT is client-directed, outcome-oriented, solution-focused, relationship-based therapy:

• I keep the session focused on your problem
• I play to your strengths
• When you're better, we stop

I also offer supervision to therapists who wish to become clinical members of AAMFT, and to any therapist who wishes to hone their skills with couples and families.

Finally, I offer parenting coordination to high conflict, post divorce couples who are having difficulty managing their parenting plans.

Services are confidential. No information is disclosed to anyone without your written permission. Exceptions are as provided for by law, i.e. suspected child neglect or abuse, imminent threat of self harm or harm to others, or court subpoena.

Special confidentiality rules apply to parenting coordination (call for details).

Serving Hamilton, Dundas, Ancaster, Cambridge, Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, Brantford, Waterdown, Smithville, Niagara-on-the-Lake, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Caledonia, Port Dover, Simcoe, Burlington, Oakville, Mississauga, Hagersville, Stoney Creek, Grimsby, Lincoln, Pelham, Thorold, Welland, Fort Erie, Port Colborne, Haldimand, Norfolk

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