Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) helps partners deepen connection by exploring emotional patterns in a safe, structured way. Together, we’ll uncover and reshape the cycles that create distance, fostering greater trust, responsiveness, and closeness.
Relational Psychotherapy for Positive Change and Authentic Connection
Therapy that supports growth, healing, and deeper connection—with yourself and others.
You are invited to a space to slow down and allow curiosity to thrive. This is a space for those seeking clarity, meaning, and harmony to compassionately explore what it means to be themselves in an often overwhelming world.
Welcome, I am Simon.
I come to psychotherapy as both a practitioner and a person shaped by profound questions; questions about purpose, resilience, pain, and what it means to be in authentic relationship with ourselves and others.
You can expect me to guide our work together with this same curiosity, understanding that the sanctity of our relationship will inform the pace and depth of the work. I draw on Internal Family Systems (IFS), humanistic, emotion-focused, and somatic-based approaches to support your process of reconnection and healing. Along the journey, I bring my strengths of compassion, honesty, and a quality of stubbornness that I hope will be seen as an unfaltering commitment to your growth and wellbeing.
How I Can Help
As trained Internal Family Systems, trauma, and Emotion-Focused Couples therapist, I offer meaningful support to individuals and couples seeking positive change, deeper self-understanding, and a desire to live more fully and authentically—in connection with themselves and with others.
Many of the people I work with are navigating life transitions, relational challenges, or the lingering effects of childhood and relational trauma. While they may feel stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about what’s next, they also carry a profound hope for something different.
My approach is relational, caring, and collaborative. It’s grounded in the belief that healing happens in connection with our authentic self and with others. We move with gentleness, curiosity, and at the pace that trust allows.
I’d be honoured to walk alongside you.
Therapeutic Approaches
My work is grounded in approaches that honour the complexity of human experience, and that support healing through connection, curiosity, and embodiment.
IFS is a gentle, structured way of exploring your inner world. It helps us understand the different parts of ourselves—especially the ones that feel conflicted, reactive, or burdened. By approaching these parts with curiosity and care, we create space for deeper healing and self-leadership to emerge.
I draw on a humanistic foundation rooted in presence, authenticity, and meaning-making. Whether we’re exploring purpose, navigating uncertainty, or staying with difficult emotions, this approach invites depth, honesty, and agency.
Somatic therapy supports emotional healing through connection with the body. Together, we’ll tune into physical sensations, breath, and movement to access wisdom that isn’t always available through words alone.
Ready To Begin?
If you’re curious about working together, I offer a free 20-minute discovery call. It’s a chance to connect, ask questions, and get a sense of whether this work—and this relationship—feels right for you.
Online psychotherapy for individuals and couples across Ontario.
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