My Practice.

Katayoun offers mindfulness-based, emotionally –centered, somatic therapy for the deepest healing, growth, and psycho-spiritual awakening. Katayoun is recognized as a personal development expert. She has the unique ability to speak from her heart to yours, strengthening you for the next chapter of your life. Katayoun believes in creating trusting, open, non-judgmental relationships in which clients can work towards mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Katayoun has successfully worked with individuals, couples, and families experiencing issues that include but are not limited to infidelity, separation, divorce, communication difficulties, domestic violence, sexual trauma, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, PTSD, suicide, anger management, addiction, and concurrent mental health disorders. Her sessional approach is conducted via Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), which is an evidence-based treatment designed to alter the damaging negative thought patterns people may have developed either internally, towards the world and or people in their lives. These thought patterns have resulted in fuelling maladaptive behaviours such as alcohol or drug abuse, isolation, anger or self-harm. In addition, thoughts that are self- defeating may also reinforce cooccurring issues with depression and anxiety that often accompany Substance Use Disorder (SUD).

How Does Cognitive Behaviour
Therapy Work.

 Unwelcomed thoughts that may lead to negative feelings of self and destructive behaviours can be changed by using methods of CBT. Specifically, CBT helps clients look at how their thoughts and emotions relate to each other and can result in a pattern of behaviour. Destructive and irrational belief systems change as clients learn to understand where they come from and how their beliefs may fail to measure up to reality. CBT helps people analyze negative thought patterns and improve coping skills. Through this process, clients learn how to anticipate triggers and their related reactions to those triggers so that they can better prepare for the future. 

CBT is based on the idea that how we think (cognition), how we feel (emotion) and how we act (behaviour) all interact together. Specifically, our thoughts determine our feelings and our behaviour. 

Additionally, Katayoun uses Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT). This is a type cognitive therapy which focuses on resolving emotional and behavioural problems. The common goal is to change perceived irrational beliefs to more rational ones. REBT encourages a person to identify their general and irrational beliefs (e.g. I must be perfect") and subsequently persuades the person to challenge these false beliefs through reality testing.

Pricing

$80 per hour
Sliding Scale

Methods of payment accepted ACH bank transfer,
cash, and cheque.