Individual Therapy


Sarah de la Roche, MACP, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

What is Individual Therapy?

Individual therapy offers a confidential and non-judgemental space to meet one-on-one with a trained mental health professional, exploring your thoughts, emotions, and experiences from a place of curiosity and care. It supports deeper self-understanding, strengthens coping, and helps you move through challenges in ways that feel more manageable and true to you.

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Downtown Office

West-End Office

Areas of Focus

My practices works with diverse concerns, with a focus on:

  • Neurodivergence | ADHD | Autism | Learning Differences

  • Anxiety & Panic

  • Emotion Regulation Difficulties

  • Relationship Concerns / Interpersonal Conflict

The Therapy Space is A Creative Space

~ Inviting Creativity into the therapy room through art, expressive writing, metaphor, and experiential techniques ~

Approach

I practice from a relational, neurodiversity-affirming, and trauma-informed lens, meaning: the therapeutic relationship is central to the process, we work to recognize, embrace, and understand unique brain processes, and your concerns are viewed in the context of your lived experiences.

Common areas explored in Therapy:

  • relationships & social connections

  • patterns in behaviours, thoughts, communication

  • identity & self concept

  • decision-making processes

  • coping mechanisms & responses to stress

  • attachment & emotional needs

  • values, desires, hopes

  • role of culture, society, and environmental factors

  • grief processes

  • meaning-making processes

  • boundaries & self-care

  • upbringing & family dynamics

  • navigating changes & unknown

  • identifying strengths & building skills

Modalities & Techniques

  • Person-Centered

  • Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Narrative Therapy

  • Emotion-focused Therapy (EFT)

  • Cognitive-behavioural Therapy (CBT)

  • Solution-focused Therapy (SFT)

  • Mind-Body & Nervous system Awareness

  • Creative-based & Strengths-based

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I welcome free 20 min consults to explore next steps, and answer any questions you may have.

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Virtual Sessions.

Ontario.

In-Person Sessions.

Kingston, Ontario.