Joanna Furtado Therapy

Joanna Furtado Therapy

Mental Health
230 Bingham Ave
Toronto, ON M4E 3R5

Description


Offering individual counseling in a private practice setting for those struggling with anxiety, depression and trauma recovery.

I am a integrative counsellor who combines client centered talk therapy with psychodynamics and mindfulness practices. My hope is to help empower clients to rewrite their story and find compassion for their wounded or unresolved parts in order to live their most authentic life.

Client Centered counseling?:

Client centered counseling is an important part of our work together. It presents an opportunity for you to express your feelings and share your unique experience of the world. It is my goal to provide a safe and empathetic space where you can freely explore difficult emotions in a secure and trusting environment. This is also a time where we can unpack any outdated or limiting beliefs that you may hold about yourself and gain consciousness around adaptive patterns and relational dynamics that may no longer serve your best interest.

Psychodynamic Approach:

This lens encourages insight and understanding of our development and character structure as forming in relation to our early environment and relational experiences. It encourages a deeper connection to oneself and promotes the processing of unresolved experiences and emotions.

This is a gradual process with awareness towards building comfort and tolerance of one`s true emotional experience. As such this practice promotes a kind of completion of previously interrupted processing and can support a greater range of expression and recovery of self agency.

Mindfulness Practices:

Meditation and breathwork is utilized in my practice to bring awareness to a clients felt sense and support regulation of the nervous system. It is a tool that can support clients ability to self sooth and ground into present day awareness.

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