Sara Lapp-Smelski
- Clinical Counsellor
- Woman
Accepting new patients
Provider's hours
Sunday
By appointment only
Monday
9:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Tuesday
9:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Wednesday
9:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Thursday
9:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Friday
9:00 am
-
5:00 pm
Saturday
9:00 am
-
5:00 pm
Provider information
Description
I have worked in the helping professions for 20 years, and been a therapist for the past 13 years. I specialize in: trauma life transitions attachment issues self concept and self esteem phobias occupational stress injury, including burnout and compassion fatigue mood disorders such as anxiety and depression grief, loss and bereavement, including complicated and traumatic bereavement eating disorders and disordered eating perinatal concerns, including infertility and pregnancy and infant loss self-esteem, perfectionism and people pleasing suicide and suicide bereavement parenting and family
Languages spoken
- English
Facility: Monarch Psychology
Summary
We believe that many mental health disorders and diagnoses are reactions to underlying issues such as trauma, grief, or systematic oppression, rather than innate. While some mental health disorders are biological in nature and innate, for many people, symptoms develop as coping strategies. If we address the underlying issue, we can address the need for those coping mechanisms. We create space to understand people and their stories by looking beyond symptoms and diagnoses. We provide counselling services to children, adolescents, adults, couples and families.
Business hours
Sunday
By appointment only
Monday
9:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Tuesday
9:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Wednesday
9:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Thursday
9:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Friday
9:00 am
-
5:00 pm
Saturday
9:00 am
-
5:00 pm
Services & supplies
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Attachment-based therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Cognitive processing therapy
- Compassion-focused therapy
- Culturally sensitive therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Emotionally focused therapy
- Existential therapy
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy
- Family counselling
- Family systems therapy
- Feminist therapy
- Group counselling
- Humanistic therapy
- Integrative therapy
- Marital counselling
- Marriage and family therapy
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
- Multicultural therapy
- Narrative therapy
- Parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT)
- Person-centered therapy
- Play therapy
- Prolonged exposure therapy
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Psychological therapy
- Relational therapy
- Relationship counselling
- Solution-focused brief therapy
- Somatic therapy
- Sports psychology
- Strength-based therapy
- Structural family therapy
- Teen mental health
- The Gottman method
- Trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy
Amenities
- Close to public transit
- Free parking
