Smart Therapy: Insight-Driven Depth Therapy

Supporting individuals towards a brighter tomorrow.

At Smart Therapy, Rebecca Steele combines over a decade of experience as a therapist with a compassionate approach to support your healing journey. Let's navigate this path together.

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What you're experiencing right now...

  • You're tired of wondering why a certain pattern keeps happening
  • You want to break out of a feeling of stuckness- with your mood, your life situation, or a cycle you've noticed
  • You want to learn how to shift out of certain tendencies or behaviours
  • You want to learn how to enhance your self-soothing abilities 

Perhaps you've tried some self care or self-help strategies already and they're not cutting it. You want a shift to happen. You want to break out of any patterns or stuckness you've been experiencing. Whether that's in your relationships, your nervous system, your mood, or other aspects of yourself or your life. You want to break free from those cycles and states of being. 

 

You're in the right place...

Hi, I'm Rebecca

I'll help you explore your past, present, and your psyche to get to the root of your healing needs.

In Depth Therapy, we aim to (at the right pace!) look deep into your personal psychology to explore the unconscious aspects of your mind. This also includes understanding the unconscious and underlying root causes of any patterns, or of an ongoing condition or situation. We will identify any historical patterns occurring in your life, explore what brought them about, and how to shift them. 

In my therapeutic style, I tend to blend a conversational, personable, and compassionate approach to therapy while still going to a place of depth with you in your sessions.

I am honoured your journey has brought you to Smart Therapy. I feel privileged to learn about you and to support you in taking healing steps to move forward.

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Specializing In Treating...

Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, and Self-Esteem
Anxiety & Depression

Anxiety & Depression

Anxiety and depression often coexist, creating a challenging cycle where overwhelming worry and persistent sadness amplify each other, greatly affecting your sense of well-being. Compassion-focused depth therapy can help you develop self-compassion and resilience, providing tools to get relief from these experiences and achieve a more balanced emotional state.
Relational Trauma and Complex Trauma

Relational & Childhood Trauma

Relational trauma and complex trauma can come from experiences of betrayal, neglect, or emotional unavailability in important relationships, leading to deep-seated feelings of insecurity and mistrust. Healing from relational trauma requires a gentle and compassionate approach that grows self-acceptance and the rebuilding of safe, supportive connections with others.
Self-Esteem & Identity

Self-Esteem & Identity

Self-esteem is a key part of mental health, reflecting our sense of worth and value in the world. Building healthy self-esteem leads into feelings of self-appreciation, acceptance and compassion, allowing individuals to embrace their strengths while still allowing for their humanity. Healing from past hurts is profound in shifting one's self-esteem or self-worth.

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Treatment

Smart Therapy: Insight-Driven Depth Therapy

I use these approaches to help guide clients through their own personal therapeutic transformation:  

  • Emotion-Focused Therapy
  • Psychodynamic Therapy:
    • Psychoanalytic approaches
    • Schema Therapy
    • Jungian Therapy which can include exploration of the shadow, dream analysis, active imagination, or creative approaches (eg. art therapy activities for in between sessions)
    • 'Archetypal Psychology' approaches, including exploration of Archetpal and Personality factors. eg. the Enneagram, MBTI, and mythology-related archetypes
    • Dream Analysis or Dream Therapy, making the unconscious conscious to further self-understanding, healing, and growth

In addition to these talk therapy approaches I offer these mindfulness and somatic brain-body therapies:

  • Brainspotting & Expansion Brainspotting a brain-body therapy which supports the treatment of anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and trauma among other conditions
  • Clinical Counselling Hypnotherapy a mind-body therapy which treats a wide variety of conditions. Intensive advanced hypnotherapy treatment is focused on inner child healing to support mood and trauma treatment

Brainspotting & Hypnotherapy are also available as Therapy Intensives, which are focused sessions of a longer duration (2-3 hours). Contact Smart Therapy for more information.

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Discover a Path to Well-being

Let's embark on this journey together.
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Personalized Care

Every session is tailored to meet your unique needs, fostering a space where growth and healing can flourish.
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Flexible Scheduling

Life is unpredictable, which is why I offer flexible appointment times to fit into your busy schedule.
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Confidential Support

Your privacy and comfort are paramount, ensuring a safe space for you to express and explore.

Each Traditional Talk Therapy Session Will Involve...

A client-centered approach where we explore what events, thoughts, or feelings have, or will transpire-either past, present, or what is on the horizon.

We will focus on your unique counselling goals. Generally, our meetings work toward exploration of and making personal shifts in the following aspects of your life:  

  • Cognitive Tendencies/Thinking Patterns  

Understanding how to manage and overcome catastrophizing thoughts, chronic worry, and anxiety-based or depression-based thoughts; reducing obsessive thinking and rumination, improving self-esteem, body image.

  • Emotional Processing & Regulation  

Processing emotionally difficult experiences, learning how to work through painful emotions and begin to learn how to self-soothe and self-nurture. Tapping into the emotional components of your experiences and thoughts.

  • Behavioural Changes  

Shifting impulsive tendencies, tackling procrastination or avoidance, addressing alcohol/substance concerns, learning to set boundaries with others and become aware of your own personal boundaries, shifting the behavioural cycle of burnout.

  • Existential Exploration  

Exploring worldviews and beliefs, identifying personally meaningful areas of life and how these areas can be amplified for you. Identifying and establishing a vision for your life that helps you feel a sense of purpose and excitement for your future. Figuring out what it is that you really want.

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Telehealth Counselling and Online Therapy

Virtual & Distance Therapy: Online Psychotherapy Over Video and Phone

Smart Therapy™ is based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, and serves everywhere in Ontario.

Counselling services are currently offered solely over video and phone. 

Studies have shown there are benefits to distance and virtual therapy that in-person does not offer. One of the benefits is called the “Disinhibition Effect,” meaning people feel more comfortable talking over video or phone about things they otherwise might not have brought up in person. Many people have also found distance therapy to be more comfortable since they can do it from their own home or space.

Ready to Get Started?

3 Easy Steps to Start Therapy with Smart Therapy™

  1. Reach out: and set up either a free 20 minute consult, or if you'd like to dive into therapy right away, book your first session. This first meeting will allow you to see if you think we will be the right therapeutic fit for your counselling needs
  2. Treatment for your unique identity and preferences: Get therapeutic treatment weekly, every other week or so, or via one of Smart Therapy's intensive therapy options to start the seeing the benefits you are hoping to get from your therapy experience. Feel relief from what you have been experiencing, and any stuckness you were feeling before.
  3. Develop feelings of wholeness: As a result of your therapeutic time together, enhance your understanding of yourself, any patterns, and begin to feel greater levels of wholeness and satisfaction within, with a calmer more at peace nervous system. 

 

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Rebecca Steele

PO Box 40074, Waterloo Square PO
Waterloo, ON
N2J 4V1

8559083524

rebecca@smart-therapy.ca

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