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How We Work

Evidence-informed methods, tailored to you.

You don’t need to choose a method before starting. These are the approaches our clinicians draw on, and adapt, to fit your goals and nervous system.

Relational & Attachment-Based Therapy

Relational and attachment-based therapy examines how early experiences of connection continue to shape trust, conflict, and protection in present relationships.

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Trauma-Informed Therapy

Trauma-informed therapy recognizes protective reactions as adaptations to overwhelming experience and organizes treatment around safety, choice, and nervous-system capacity.

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps identify the thoughts and behaviours that keep anxiety, low mood, and avoidance in place, then tests more useful responses in daily life.

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Somatic Therapy

Somatic therapy includes the body's sensations and nervous-system states in treatment, helping clients work with reactions that insight alone has not changed.

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Parts-Based Therapy

Parts-based therapy helps clients understand the conflicting internal positions that criticize, protect, avoid, or carry pain rather than treating them as evidence of inconsistency.

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Narrative Therapy

Narrative therapy examines the stories that have come to define a person and separates identity from the problem those stories describe.

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Mindfulness-Based Therapy

Mindfulness-based therapy trains attention so thoughts and bodily reactions can be noticed without immediately becoming instructions for what to do next.

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Sex Therapy

Sex therapy is specialized talk therapy for concerns involving desire, intimacy, sexual function, identity, and the relationship dynamics surrounding them.

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Gottman Method

The Gottman Method is a research-based approach to couples therapy that strengthens friendship, manages conflict constructively, and builds shared meaning between partners.

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Relational Life Therapy

Relational Life Therapy is a direct, honest approach to couples work that names harmful patterns clearly and teaches the practical skills of full-respect living.

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Compassion-Focused Therapy

Compassion-Focused Therapy helps people caught in shame and harsh self-criticism build the capacity to relate to themselves with warmth, strength, and courage.

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Person-Centred Therapy

Person-centred therapy offers a non-directive, deeply respectful space in which genuine acceptance and empathy allow a person's own capacity for growth to re-emerge.

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Solution-Focused Therapy

Solution-focused therapy concentrates on what is already working and what a preferred future looks like, building change from existing strengths rather than extended problem analysis.

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KDW Counselling & Consulting · London, Ontario

A Grounded Environment

The method serves the person, not the other way around.

Our clinicians draw from several evidence-informed approaches while paying close attention to pace, safety, and the relationship in the room. The space is intentionally quiet so the work can stay centred on you.

Not sure which approach is right?

That's our job, not yours. In your free consult and early sessions, your therapist works with you to find the methods that fit.