Dr. Hope can work with you to address emotional and behavioural difficulties interfering with your quality of life to better help you thrive. Depending on your goals, targets of individual therapy may include decreasing experiences of depression, addressing anxiety and avoidance keep you stuck, and addressing ineffective coping patterns for coping with overwhelming emotions. Dr. Hope works from the premise that change follows acceptance and understanding of why you are facing your unique challenges in the first place. Therefore, therapy may also target increasing self-acceptance, and decreasing self-criticism. Therapy begins with an assessment to better understand the difficulties you are facing, and this assessment guides Dr. Hope in recommending an evidence-based treatment.

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Dr. Hope offers a variety of evidence-based treatment, including Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) for emotional regulation difficulties, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for mood and anxiety disorders, Prolonged Exposure (PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and mindfulness-based interventions.

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Specialty areas of practice:

• Trauma, PTSD    

• Mood disorders

• Anxiety disorder

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Other issues:

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• Grieving traumatic invalidation and systematic oppression

• Adjustment to parenthood, perinatal mental health (during pregnancy and after birth), infertility and infant loss

• Gender affirming care for transgender and gender expansive persons (e.g., transgender, non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit)

• Addressing trauma and burnout in first responders

• Suicidality and self-harm

• Decreasing avoidance, and increasing values congruent behaviour (e.g., return to work or school; decreasing isolation)

• Accessing inner resilience in coping with strong emotions

• Boundary setting, enhancing self-respect and quality of close relationships

• Loneliness