Family & Couples Therapy
Dr. Ellie Bolgar & Associates are trained in a variety of approaches:
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Dialectical Therapy
- Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
- Rational Emotive Therapy
- Solution Focused Therapy
- Existential
- Psychodynamic
She is also competent in the use of specific therapeutic techniques like:
- Hypnosis
- Mindfulness Meditation
- Neurofeedback
Dr. Bolgar utilizes an attachment focused psychology that is more than simply using techniques. It is an understanding to a way of perceiving life, correcting biases, repairing ruptures, and forming a profound connection to the self and others, which installs a greater sense of security.
Emotion plays a crucial role in organizing how we see the world. Cognitive and behavioral changes are difficult to achieve because they are incompatible with emotional states activated in various life situations. When people learn to interact directly with and shift their emotional states, then behaviors and cognitions change more easily.
Dr. Bolgar believes that people have the natural ability to heal under the right circumstances.
Specialties of therapy services
Stress
Anxiety
Depression
Work related issues
Family Conflict
Divorce
School
Eating Disorder
Narcissistic Personality
Borderline Personality Disorder
Emotional Disturbance Mood Disorders
Sexual Abuse
Life Coaching
Infidelity
Sleep/Insomnia
Parenting
Self-harm
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Trauma/PTSD
Grief
Self-esteem
Life transitioning
Relationship Issues
Pregnancy
Sports/Performance
Women’s Issues
Addiction
Mindfulness Meditation Offers Lifelong Benefits
Do you have friends and family members who encourage you to “live in the moment”? Do you have difficulties doing just that? Are you always thinking about the mistakes of the past or pondering what’s going to happen in the future? Do those constant thoughts about past...
Hypnosis in Counselling
Have you ever seen a nightclub act that involves a performer who calls a member of the audience up to the stage and then “hypnotizes” them? If you have, you probably remember that the person doing the hypnotizing does his or her best to embarrass the person who has...
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
Marriage and domestic partnership can be among the most rewarding relationships life has to offer. But sometimes, it can also be one of the saddest, most frustrating relationships we have in our lives. No relationship is perfect. Each has it’s own faults. But...
Dialectical Therapy
Developed in the late 1980s, Dialectical Therapy or Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a type of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy that has been especially effective in treating those individuals with borderline personality disorder. In addition, it has more recently...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – often abbreviated as simply CBT – is likely the most widely-used type of therapy for patients with a wide variety of issues or disorders. Some might refer to it as talk therapy, because it simply involves a structured back-and-forth...
Attachment-based Therapy
Early Attachment Patterns Many of us suffer from fractured or broken family relationships, even if we are hesitant to discuss them. Chances are that if you simply gathered a group of friends together and asked who experienced serious pain with their children, parents,...
