We help people live life unreservedly through effective therapy. Discover your joy.

We believe that therapy is for everyone – you do not need to identify as having ‘mental health challenges’ to benefit from therapy. Therapy helps you break free from old patterns that no longer serve your highest purpose. Anxiety, depression, addiction, sleeping problems, infertility, career challenges, relationship difficulties, stress, grief and loss – we have all experienced something that feels unmanageable. Therapy can help you live joyfully and with purpose. We use Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT), Family Constellations, and Transactional Analysis Therapy as our primary treatment modalities. Join our community.

Therapy

We specialize in supporting adults as individuals in therapy. Transform the internal dialogue that holds you back from living a joyful, unreserved life. Book a consult to learn more about how therapy can help you transform anxiety, depression, or life stress into joy and contentment in your life.

For Therapists

Therapists need therapy too, and it’s essential to find the right fit. Learn more about getting support with therapy for therapists. We also offer supervision and train other therapists in Advanced Integrative Therapy, a powerful somatic and energy psychology approach to treating trauma. Learn more about the AIT Basics Seminar.

People who benefit from therapy often:

• Want to overcome anxiety or depression
• Want a more fulfilling career or to solve difficulties with bosses or colleagues
• Want to create fulfilling relationships – in friendship, marriage, partnership or work
• Want to let go of hopelessness or apathy, or wish to answer questions like ‘Who am I?’ or ‘How did I get here?’
• Want to sleep and wake up restful and restored
• Want to enjoy work and let go of overworking and feeling stressed
• Desire to stop struggling with addictions

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do I really need therapy?

Life can be difficult sometimes. Stress is abundant, and there are increasing pressures on the average person – to perform, succeed and generally crush life. Sometimes, all these things can add up and end up crushing you. Therapy gives you an independent person to talk to, someone who will support you in finding your own solutions. This feels more empowering than hearing everyone’s opinions and advice, which you might get from friends or family.

Therapy is different. And we can all use someone who is firmly on our side. Book a consult to see if Therapy for People is the right place for you to start healing now.

How do I choose a therapist?

The helping professions can be complex to navigate. There are Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Counsellors, Social Workers, and Clinical Social Workers. To complicate matters further, everyone seems to offer a different modality – CBT, Solutions Focused, Trauma-informed, IFS, Gestalt, AIT, DBT – what the heck are they talking about?

Guess what – the most critical factor when choosing a therapist is this – do you like them? You will be talking about complex stuff and feeling complicated feelings; you need someone who feels trustworthy, and whom you can talk to. Numerous long-term studies have shown that what helps people change in therapy is the healing attachment relationship they experience with their therapist. Shop around, get consults and trust your instincts.

What kind of commitment do I need to make?

Healing in therapy often takes time—don’t forget, you are rewiring your brain and learning to regulate your nervous system. It took years and plenty of experiences to get you where you are now. Give yourself even a fraction of that time to change how you think and feel in therapy. Starting with 10 sessions is a good start.

At Therapy for People, we encourage people to come weekly for the first four sessions. This gets you started and helps avoid the feeling that you are restarting at every session. Building a strong relationship with your therapist is the first task in therapy. Often, people with more significant challenges or a more complex past to recover from need longer – sometimes up to a year or longer. However, your commitment is ultimately your decision; you can come as long or as short as you wish.

This is a free, 20-minute consult

Autobiography in Five Short Chapters

By Poria Nelson

Chapter 1

I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost…I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out.

Chapter 2

I walk down the street. there is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend that I don’t see it. I fall in again. I can’t believe I am in this same place. But, it isn’t my fault. It still takes a long time to get out.

Chapter 3

I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in…it’s a habit…but, my eyes are open. I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out immediately.

Chapter 4

I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it.

Chapter 5

I walk down another street.

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