Psychotherapeutic treatments

Smart Therapy: Insight-driven depth therapy

I generally recommend, when possible, beginning therapy at a weekly or bi-weekly (every other week) frequency for the first couple of months.

Sessions are typically 50 minutes. If you're looking for a longer or more in-depth session, we can explore options together.

This frequency allows for continuity, momentum, and depth as we begin to understand your patterns and work more directly with what’s emerging.

As you start to notice shifts or improvements, many clients choose to space sessions out to bi-weekly or monthly, depending on their needs and preferences. Others continue at a more frequent cadence longer-term, as they find it offers more consistent support and integration.

 

My Therapeutic Approach

I draw from a range of depth-oriented and evidence-based approaches to support meaningful, lasting change:

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Supporting emotional awareness, processing, and transformation.

Psychodynamic & Psychoanalytic Therapy
Exploring unconscious patterns, early relational experiences, and attachment dynamics—and how these shape your relationships, worldview, and nervous system.

Schema Therapy
Integrating cognitive-behavioural and depth approaches to identify and shift longstanding patterns that influence how you think, feel, and relate.

Jungian & Archetypal Approaches
Working with the symbolic and unconscious through shadow work, dream exploration, active imagination, and creative practices. This may also include exploration of archetypal and personality frameworks such as the Enneagram and MBTI.

Dream Analysis
Using dreams as a pathway into the unconscious to deepen insight, integration, and personal meaning.

 

Brain-Body & Experiential Therapies

In addition to talk-based approaches, I offer integrative mind-body therapies that support deeper emotional and nervous system processing:

Brainspotting & Expansion Brainspotting
A brain-body approach that supports the processing of trauma, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem challenges.
Also available as a focused three-hour Therapy Intensive for more concentrated work.

Clinical Counselling Hypnotherapy (Inner Child Focus)
A depth-oriented hypnotherapy approach that supports healing at the level of emotional imprinting, including inner child work and trauma integration.

 

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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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