Smart Therapy: Insight-Driven Depth Therapy
Supporting individuals towards mental and emotional health
At Smart Therapy, Rebecca Steele combines over a decade of experience as a trauma therapist with a compassionate approach to support your healing journey. Let's navigate this path together.
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 want to learn how to shift 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 going to a place of depth 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.
Specializing In Treating...
Anxiety & Depression
Relational & Childhood Trauma
Self-Esteem & Identity
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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 highly focused sessions of a longer duration (2-3 hours).
Discover a Path to Well-being
Personalized Care
Flexible Scheduling
Confidential Support
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.
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™
- 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
- 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 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.
- 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.