Bridgette is a Registered Psychotherapist who focuses on sessions that convey compassion and warmth to support clients in addressing their current challenges. She builds therapeutic alliances with children and youth through establishing trust, safety and understanding. Bridgette has worked for many years with children, youth, and parents of diverse populations in community, school and counselling settings. Bridgette utilizes many creative modalities of therapy to engage and support children and youth in the therapeutic process. The therapy Bridgette provides has a foundation in attachment-based research. Bridgette’s therapeutic approaches include the use of Play, Sandplay, Art, Cognitive-behavioural, Narrative, and Emotion-focused techniques.
Bridgette recognizes counselling as a collaborative process between the therapist and their client, in which encouragement, validation and acceptance are pivotal for a client to feel supported. Bridgette understands that therapy can be a daunting process for children and youth, as well as their parents at times. Bridgette aims to make the therapeutic process as fulfilling as possible for all members of the family while maintaining the best-interest and confidentiality for the children or teen that is her client.
Bridgette is committed to staying updated on well-researched therapeutic techniques that are demonstrated to be most beneficial when working with children, youth and parents.
Bridgette provides services under the supervision of Sylvia Simonyi-Elmer, R.P.
