Holistic & Integrated Approach to Therapy

Kiersty uses a customized and personalized approach because every client's needs are unique. Here are some key points:

  1. Kiersty uses a blend of modalities that resonate and challenge a client’s core assumptions and beliefs. She uses mindset & reframing tools to help you get from Point A to B when life doesn’t work in straight lines. Kiersty points out blind spots that the client did not recognize before. This becomes the self-awareness used to create new habits and thinking patterns.

  2. Kiersty uses foundational aspects such as meaning, purpose, identity, and sense of connection to oneself and others as a way to promote self-discovery.

  3. Kiersty uses relational psychotherapy as one of the most crucial proponents of building trust and to recognize that issues that clients struggle with may show up and surface in the therapeutic relationship. By bringing awareness to those dynamics at play within the therapist-client relationship itself, e.g. defensiveness, resistance, indecisiveness, etc, Kiersty and the client can work on these issues in real-time in a relational way rather than simply conceptual.

  4. Kiersty uses a collaborative, hands-on approach which includes creating accountability, assigning post-therapy ‘homework’ and reflection journaling questions to help keep up the momentum in between sessions.

 

Therapy Modalities Kiersty Uses in Sessions:

Psychodynamic & Psychoanalysis

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Emotionally Focused Therapy

Solution-Focused and Mindset Coaching

Relational Psychotherapy

Existential (Logo) Therapy

Socratic Method

Narrative Therapy & Therapeutic Journaling

(Internal) Family Systems Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Mindfulness-Based & Somatic Therapy

Humanistic Therapy

Spiritually-Informed Psychotherapy

Desert sands

Your readiness is your willingness. 

— KIERSTY M. XAVIER

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