Julia Balaisis

“Sometimes in life, we need a mentor, advocate or a careful, accepting and non-judgmental listener for our thought and emotion processes. My intention as a therapist is to be there for you with a compassionate presence, contributing my expertise to help you access your needs, self-understanding and inner wisdom. Where unconscious behaviours and unsuccessful life patterns impede access to fulfillment and happiness in life, I offer skills development for self-care and self-mastery. I welcome clients who experience emotional distress due to trauma, loss, anxiety, panic, low self-esteem, depression and relationship problems, providing skilled guidance and support.

I offer an eclectic and personalized variety of treatment approaches that include Client-centred Emotionally Focused Therapy (accessing information and needs from emotions ), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (cognitive re-structuring and behavioural change directed at realizing values and achieving goals) and EMDR (trauma de-sensitization and re-processing).

As well as working with individuals, I encourage couples into my practice, following the protocol of Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (www.eft.ca). Through this process we uncover the relationship's distressing negative cycle and facilitate healing, closeness and the creation of a loving safe haven in the relationship.”