Specialty Mental Health Support Tailored for You
Serving the Kitchener-Waterloo area, and across Ontario with compassionate care.
Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or just not yourself lately? You're not alone. As your dedicated specialty practitioner, I'm here to guide you through these challenging times with professional counselling services. Together, we'll navigate the path to your mental and emotional well-being.
Treatment
Smart Therapy: Insight-Driven Depth Therapy
I am a depth therapist and use these approaches to help guide clients through their own personal therapeutic transformation:
- Emotion-Focused Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Psychoanalytic approaches
- Schema Therapy
- Jungian Therapy: includes Dream Therapy, exploration of the shadow, 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
In addition to these traditional talk therapy approaches I offer these subconscious therapeutic treatments including:
- Clinical Counselling Hypnotherapy (C.Hyp™) to treat a wide variety of conditions
- Heart Healing® advanced hypnotherapy treatment focused on inner child healing to support mood and trauma treatment
- Brainspotting which supports the treatment of anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and trauma among other conditions
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Personalized Care
Flexible Scheduling
Confidential Support
Hi, I'm Rebecca!
Perhaps you are feeling like you are struggling with setting boundaries with others, or feeling deprived in your relationships. Are you wanting to feel more wholeness, self-esteem, or a sense of empowerment? Do you want to navigate and recover from a burnout experience?
Maybe you are experiencing emotional distress and would appreciate some support at this time. My specialty is using depth therapy approaches to treat anxiety, depression, and trauma in 1:1 sessions with individuals. These areas can also often be related to low self-esteem, over-giving, people pleasing, burnout, stress, overwhelm, perfectionism, feeling empty or lost, among other experiences.
I am honoured your journey has brought you to Smart Therapy. I am excited to learn about you; I feel privileged to learn about you and to support you in taking healing steps to move forward.
Smart Therapy's Values
Emotional Intelligence
Empathy
Freedom
Insight
Feeling Overwhelmed or Stuck?
Let's navigate these waters together.
At Smart Therapy, your journey towards healing and growth is deeply valued. With ten years' experience in counseling and mental health, I offer a personalized approach to help you find clarity, resilience, and well-being. Choosing to seek out psychotherapy services means taking a step towards a more fulfilled and balanced life.
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. This includes the encouragement of non-judgemental awareness and acceptance of yourself; to quote Jim Carrey, “Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world.”
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, identify 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.
Psychotherapeutic Specialty: Compassionate Individual Therapy for Adults
Supporting individuals towards a brighter tomorrow.
At Smart Therapy, Rebecca Steele combines over a decade of experience as a depth-psychotherapist with a compassionate approach to support your healing journey. Let's navigate this path together.
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Telehealth
Online Psychotherapy Over Video and Phone
Smart Therapy™ is currently based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, and serves everywhere in Ontario. Counselling services are being 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.