Individual psychotherapy can help you understand and cope with a variety of mental health conditions or interpersonal problems. Our clinicians aim to help you better understand your social, emotional and behavioural coping patterns to see if learning new ways of being in the world may improve your individual and relational well-being.
Common reasons people seek psychotherapy include:
At SCPP, each of us are committed to providing clients with a range of evidence-based options for recovery. We do not believe that there is a one size fits all approach to healing. Each of our clinicians are formally trained in at least two or more of the frameworks or evidence-based modalities and engage in regular clinical consultation and supervision to enhance our skills. We also engage in regular outcome monitoring to enhance treatment effectiveness.
Our clinicians are also passionate about couple work. They share a joint goal to help partners identify and express their unexplored and unmet attachment needs to gain greater emotional and physical intimacy in their relationships.
Dr. Burgess Moser practices Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy. She helps couples to restore their connection to one another by helping them understand how their joint backgrounds and/or individual mental health histories influence their relationship patterns. She has recently developed expertise in Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma and enjoys working with couples where one or both partners have a history of trauma.
Ms. Ashley Broderick is also passionate about couple work, and Ms. Sarah Thompson does both couple therapy and family therapy. Both clinicians use principles from Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and Family Systems Therapy to help partners and families recognize their relationship patterns.
Dr. Melissa Burgess Moser, Ph.D., L.Psych, is well trained in the psychological assessment and diagnosis of mental health disorders within an adult population. Over the last ten years, she has practiced more specifically in the assessment of Depressive and Anxiety Disorders, Feeding and Eating Disorders, Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders. She has collaborated with VAC and Worksafe, N.B in the provision of diagnostic reports and treatment plans.
Dr. Burgess Moser and Ms. Ashley Broderick have been working with Deb Dana, LCSW one of the pioneers in the Clinical Application of Polyvagal theory, since 2020. They have both assisted in numerous trainings and are passionate about how polyvagal theory can help us develop as individuals and clinicians. Licensed mental health professionals who have taken foundational training in Clinical Polyvagal Theory with Deb Dana, LCSW, are encouraged to reach out for information about group consultations.
Ms. Susie Vokey and Dr. Melissa Burgess Moser will be offerring a DBT Skills Training Group in January 2025 to individuals already in psychotherapy but in need of additional emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills. If you are interested in finding out more, please have your current mental health clinician email us for referral package at info@scpp.ca.