Cultivating Lives
Counseling Services
for Couples & Individuals
Brampton Therapists supporting individuals, couples & families in Brampton, Mississauga & surrounding areas.
In-Person & Virtual Appointments
Cultivating Lives offers in-person psychotherapy for Brampton, Mississauga, and surrounding areas.
Daytime, Evening & Weekend Availability
“We provide therapy sessions at times that work around your busy schedule.”
No Waiting
List
Our team has appointments available almost immediately – you don’t need to be added to a long waitlist
Our personal stories shape us and can hold us back from living our best life.
Our Mission:
“To meet people where they are in life; Together we build on the wellness while sifting through life’s challenges.”
Services
Our Therapy Services
Cultivating Lives provides counseling therapy for Couples, Families, Parents, and Individuals.
Cultivating Lives comes alongside you. Together we sift through life challenges while building on the wellness found within you. Bringing healing, growth, and balance into your life, adding joy, love, and hope to you and those around you.
Meeting you where you are in your life experience allows you to tap into your inner resources and strengths. Combining your inner resources with our experience, professional knowledge, and understanding, will help provide fresh insight, hope and strategies in making shifts needed for long term positive change.
Other Specialties
About Us
Why Cultivating Lives?
Growth
The clinicians at Cultivating Lives come alongside clients and work together to affect positive-growth and change.
Holistic and Cooperative
At Cultivating Lives for Life, we invite both a holistic and cooperative approach. The holistic approach advocates that body, soul and spirit are integrated and inseparable. Generally, if something is amiss in our lives it is due to the neglect of one of these areas. The cooperative approach stresses individual responsibility, collaboration, client self-determination, and goal setting.
Safe
The clinicians at Cultivating Lives combine multi-faceted therapeutic techniques and skills with Christian values (where applicable). They are committed to a high standard of integrity, confidentiality, and respect for all clients and the diverse community they serve.
The Therapy Process
We Get to Know You
We take the time to get to know your history. Our first conversation helps us to understand you and identify your greatest struggles.
We Create a Plan
We create a plan that is unize to your situation and goals. We use strategies that will best help you develop the skills you need to move forward.
We Help You Grow
We asses our approach as you progress and make any adjustments needed so that you can reach your goals and start to feel better.
Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) is a distinct mental health discipline which utilizes family systems theories and intervention techniques, and is one of the five core mental health professions: marriage and family therapy, psychiatry, psychology, social work and psychiatric nursing.
Registered Marriage and Family Therapists (RMFT) are family-focused psychotherapists. They are relationship specialists and mental health generalists, and are trained to help individuals, couples, and families resolve personal and work related problems. Members have training in the development stages of personal, family and relationship growth. RMFT’s are held to the demanding Code of Ethics of The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and are Clinical Members of the AAMFT, the Ontario Association of Marriage and Family Therapist (OAMFT), and the Registry of Marriage and Family Therapists in Canada.
Marriage and family therapy is a distinct professional discipline with graduate and post graduate programs. A Registered Marriage and Family Therapist, as a clinical member of the AAMFT or the OAMFT, will have one of three accreditations: master’s degree (2-3 years), doctoral program (3-5 years), or post-graduate clinical training programs (3-4 years). Historically, marriage and family therapists have come from a wide variety of educational backgrounds including psychology, psychiatry, social work, nursing, pastoral counseling and education.
Family Therapists are trained in various modes of therapy in order to prepare them for work with families, couples, groups and individuals. The training of a RMFT includes live supervision by an experienced RMFT, which is unique among the mental health disciplines.
You may go to the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) website for more on the qualifications and additional FAQs of a Marriage and Family Therapist.
The difference begins with the type of education. Marriage and Family Therapist hold a master’s or doctoral degree and an addition two years of supervised clinical experience. A Clinical Social Worker also holds a master’s or doctoral degree. Each also requires 2 years of supervised Clinical Experience. However, a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist’s degree is focused in psychotherapy and family systems. A Marriage and Family Therapist is trained to treat mental and emotional disorders within the context of marriage, couples and family systems.
You may go to the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) website for more on the qualifications of a Marriage and Family Therapist.
No. Couples and individuals often seek marriage and family therapy for help with not only relational issues, but behavioral, mental and emotional issues as well. Family therapists provide similar services as other mental health professionals yet, usually with a more relational orientation.
Yes. If one person makes a shift in how they do life, and it is a permanent sift, others in the paradigm will usually respond as well. That being said, it may be more productive if the couple and/or the family attends the therapy sessions.
Family therapy services are not covered by OHIP. However, the services of a family therapist are sometimes covered by extended health plans and most employee assistance programs (EAP). You will be provided with a receipt that may be submitted to an insurer for reimbursement. Because some insurers do not offer coverage for marriage and family therapist (MFT), please be sure to find out in advance what your insurer offers and expects from you. Receipts may be tax deductible.
The duration of therapy depends on the nature of your concerns and your goals. In general, 6-10 sessions are recommended, although in some circumstances, a longer time spent in therapy is warranted. Depending on the situation, some benefit may be obtained in 3-6 sessions. It is important to understand, the session in and of itself is not a cure for what is troubling the couple, family or individual. One must be ready and willing to apply what they take away from the therapy process.