Brenda Foster
Registered Psychotherapist QualifyingLife Transitions (All Ages) Relationship & Interpersonal Issues Depression Anxiety Authenticity & Self-Exploration Grief & Loss
With over 31 years of experience in the mental health field, I offer compassionate, integrative counselling that draws upon a broad range of therapeutic modalities to best meet each client’s needs. My practice emphasizes creativity, flexibility, and collaboration to support meaningful, lasting change.
I incorporate the following evidence-based approaches into my work:
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT): A strengths-based approach that helps clients identify practical solutions and foster positive change.
- Existential-Humanist Therapy: Explores meaning, personal values, and life purpose.
- Person-Centred Therapy: Rooted in empathy, unconditional positive regard, and client autonomy.
- Self Psychology: Draws from psychodynamic principles to foster self-understanding and emotional growth.
- Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT): Uses cognitive-behavioural strategies to challenge and reframe unhelpful beliefs.
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT): Builds self-regulation, assertiveness, and emotional resilience.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Encourages mindfulness, acceptance, and commitment to personal values for ongoing well-being.
These therapeutic modalities are applied to a wide range of concerns, including life transitions, relationship challenges, anxiety, depression, grief, and self-exploration. As an integrative practitioner, I tailor each session to ensure therapy remains relevant, compassionate, and impactful.