Carla Ribeiro (Elle/Homme)

I have been fortunate to work with a broad range of issues and clients in a variety of settings, including hospitals, schools, community clinics and private practice. My approach is relational and integrative. This means that I first focus on building a warm, trusting, collaborative relationship with you and then I use a variety of techniques depending on what issues you want to work on and what works best for you. My influences include multicultural counselling theory, feminist, person centred and experiential approaches such as existential and emotion focused therapies, as well as psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural and mindfulness based practices. I am skilled trauma clinician and a trained EMDR practitioner. Based on what I know in my heart and what the psychological literature demonstrates, it is the quality of the relationship between client and therapist that is the best predictor of a successful outcome. This is the foundation of our work together and it is also the basis on which you must decide whether or not I am a good therapeutic fit for you. My approach also takes into account that we are all individuals within larger systems such as families, societies, cultures and nations and that these can have powerful influences on our psychological development, worldview and well-being. When I work with you I embark on a journey of discovery. I make no assumptions. I am open to all of the complex, layered and amazing ways that you have come to be who you are.