Services
Talk Therapy
Talk therapy is also known as counselling or psychotherapy. It is important for your emotional, mental, physical, social and spiritual health. Connecting with a psychotherapist can help manage stress, overcome obstacles and improve your wellness. Therapy can also help identify patterns, offer different perspectives and provide coping strategies.
Stacey offers a safe therapeutic space with a compassionate lens to explore your inner feelings, thoughts, habits and relationships to strengthen your introspection. It is also a valuable space to explore boundaries, to replenish your energy and build communication strategies to improve interpersonal relationships.
Talk therapy is a modality to help explore your ideas, values, goals and wellness. Stacey incorporates talk therapy to help you discover understanding, compassion and gain insight into your life. Stacey empowers you to liberate your authentic self and pursue your dreams.
Internal Family Systems
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based practice and rated effective for improving general functioning & well-being. It has also been rated promising for improving generalized anxiety disorders and symptoms, physical health conditions; personal resilience/ self-concept; and depression.
IFS is an elegant, efficient, and powerful ego state treatment modality. I explore your self energy (the aspects of Self we most often work with in the session are curiosity and compassion). There are protectors (managers & firefighters) and exiles. Managers are proactive parts that attempt to prevent exiles from being triggered and overwhelming the system. They plan, control, & avoid. Firefighters are reactive parts that disrupt, distract, fight, flee and freeze. Exiles carry big emotions, beliefs, burdens and stress from different experiences. As an IFS therapist, I help guide individuals to notice curiosity and compassion to welcome different parts in session to achieve harmony, balance and healing.
Cognitive Behaviour Theory
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a structured form of talk therapy, short-term, and present-oriented form of counselling that focuses on problem solving and is goal oriented. CBT is a well-known, researched evidenced based form of therapy for anxiety, depression, anger, relationship challenges, personal loss and chronic pain. CBT explores all the ways we think, feel and behave to move towards our desired outcomes in our world. Many of the challenges that we experience are based on irrational and unhelpful (distorted) thought patterns that impact both our feelings and our behaviour. Interested in exploring mindfulness tools and strategies that brings more awareness to our thoughts, feelings and behaviours to create intentional change and new solutions? CBT is a structured therapy that can help understand and manage our emotions, thoughts, and behaviours to empower positive changes in our lives!
Gottman Method
I integrate strategies with individuals that are interested exploring communication patterns. Gottman describes the Four Horsemen (Criticism, Defensiveness, Contempt and Stonewalling) that can be destructive. Identifying your triggers, reflecting on whether the trigger led to escalation or withdrawal. Noticing antidotes and reflecting on what to do differently next time. Let me be your guide, if you want to explore your dreams, beliefs and values to understand dreams within conflict and create love maps.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful psychotherapeutic approach that has been extremely helpful to process traumatic events or life experiences that have caused stress. EMDR helps the brain resume its natural healing process by shifting limiting beliefs, anxiety, stress, depression, trauma and grief.
Stacey is dedicated to understanding each persons’ unique story with genuine empathy and building trust one step at a time. Stacey uses a developmental attachment lens to understand what childhood events need healing. Stacey integrates ego state interventions to help folks increase emotional regulation, strength, resilience, self-worth, compassion, calmness, relief, acceptance and hope.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is bringing awareness to the present moment with curiosity, openness, kindness and non-judgement. Take the time to dive deeper into your thoughts, emotions, intuition and body sensations.
It is important to slow down for self-reflection to tap into your innate authenticity and cherished values to create positive changes.
Stacey practices mindfulness daily by creating space to be still to meditate or spending time in nature with her dog. Her dog is her favourite mindfulness teacher, she greets her with excitement whether she has been gone for 5 minutes or 5 hours. There is no judgment, she is fully present valuing and savouring the preciousness of the moment.
Yoga is also considered a mindfulness practice. Yoga can include movement, breathing exercises, visualizations and meditation. Stacey completed training in Akhanda Yoga in India and completed training in Trauma Sensitive Yoga at Kripalu Centre for Yoga and Health in Massachusetts. Stacey integrates both styles into her practice to help others strengthen their mind, body, heart and soul connection. Yoga can help calm your nervous system, release stress, increase peace and lead to more restful sleep.
Clinical Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy can be described as a deep meditation diving into your inner world to explore, heal, change and grow. It is a psychotherapy strategy that can help individuals find ease in discomfort, declutter their mind, tame their inner critic, release anxiety and let go of guilt and shame. Hypnotherapy taps into your subconscious, your wisdom and creative consciousness. You will gain more self compassion, appreciation, rejuvenation and liberation to live a fulfilling life.
Stacey completed her basic training in Hypnotherapy in 2018. She tailors her guided scripts based on each person’s unique goals and uses metaphors and imagery to help shift patterns in the subconscious mind. Stacey was inspired to continue training after observing incredible transformations. She decided to return to Costa Rica in 2019 and obtained her Master Clinician Hypnotherapist Certificate.
ACT
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a psychotherapy model that incorporates mindfulness-based therapy and behavioural therapy. ACT is the practice of finding more self acceptance of your thoughts, feelings and committing to actions that help you embrace any challenge. Creating space to reflect on our lives according to our values, regardless of unwanted or uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, memories or physical sensations. Its goal is the development of psychological flexibility, achieved through the use of mindfulness, metaphors and experiential exercises. It is an interactive treatment approach that can be creative and helps find more inspired meaning in our lives.