Our Modalities
At EXIST, our therapeutic approach is rooted in a commitment to ethics, professionalism, and staying at the forefront of advancements in mental health care. This diverse toolkit, coupled with ongoing professional development, ensures that our clients receive the highest standard of care, fostering growth, healing, and transformation.
One-on-One Counselling
At EXIST, we provide personalized one-on-one counseling to help clients better understand themselves, their relationships, and their inner strengths. Our goal is to create a safe space for personal growth, fostering a more fulfilling life while respecting individual values and self-determination.
Systemic Therapy
Systemic Therapy explores individuals within their relationships, emphasizing that meaning arises from interactions rather than a fixed reality. It avoids diagnosis, focusing on addressing problematic patterns and helping clients create new, growth-oriented narratives and behaviors.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
CBT combines cognitive and behavioral techniques to address issues like anxiety and depression, which stem from distorted, unhelpful thoughts. Focusing on the present, clients and therapists work together to identify and challenge maladaptive beliefs and behaviors, replacing them with healthier patterns to promote change.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic Therapy delves into unconscious processes shaping personality and behavior, focusing on how past experiences impact the present. Through techniques like free association and analyzing patterns, it uncovers and resolves deep-seated conflicts, promoting insight and emotional healing.
Existential Therapy
The Existential approach explores how individuals relate to life’s fundamental challenges, encouraging clients to understand their possibilities, limitations, and authentic selves. By fostering openness and self-awareness, therapists help clients find meaning in their struggles, take responsibility for their lives, and navigate past, present, and future crises.
Integrative Therapy
Integrative Therapy combines different therapeutic approaches, such as psychodynamic, cognitive, and gestalt, into a cohesive model. It aims to integrate disowned or unresolved aspects of the self, fostering a flexible personality and improving relationships. By synthesizing various theories, it offers a comprehensive and adaptable method for understanding and addressing behavior.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy uses hypnosis to induce a relaxed, trance-like state, allowing clients to focus deeply on their issues. In this state, therapists guide clients to access their subconscious mind, helping them clarify and change behavioral patterns or thought processes.
12-Step Facilitation Therapy
A twelve-step program is a recovery process for addiction and behavioral issues, emphasizing mutual support, honesty, and spirituality. It helps individuals admit their inability to control addiction, recognize a higher power, make amends, and adopt a healthier lifestyle while supporting others.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a highly effective treatment for various mental health conditions, including Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Self-harm, Suicidal behavior, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Substance Use Disorder, Eating disorders, Depression, and Anxiety. DBT therapists aim to balance acceptance of oneself with challenges and the benefits of change, helping individuals learn new skills to improve emotional regulation
Art Therapy
Art therapy combines creative expression with psychotherapeutic techniques to improve mental health. Through activities like drawing, painting, and sculpting, clients explore their emotions, gain personal insight, and develop coping skills. The focus is on the process of creation rather than artistic ability, using the artwork to uncover themes and conflicts that affect thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured psychotherapy method used to help individuals process and heal from trauma, PTSD, and other distressing life experiences. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation—such as guided eye movements, sounds, or taps—to reprocess “stuck” memories. This process reduces the emotional impact of these memories, enabling healthier responses to triggers. It effectively treats PTSD, anxiety, depression, phobias, grief, and more.