Ryan Salter

These brains of ours don't come with instruction manuals - figuring out how to navigate life is tough, but can sometimes feel impossible when we experience mental health difficulties. If your relationships keep looping through the same painful patterns, it can be easy to feel broken. I specialize in attachment - the exploration of human relationships, how they work, how they go badly, and how they get better. Our relationships are the building blocks of our mental health. Turbulent early relationships can create unstable present relationships, both with others and with ourselves. This is sometimes diagnosed as BPD or attachment trauma, but can also show up as anxiety, addictions, or depression that just don’t seem to get better. When we understand our underlying behaviours real change becomes possible.

Behavioural therapy consists of mapping out our patterns, setting clear goals for the future, and learning techniques to get there. It means daily actions that move us towards a mentally healthy self - especially when these actions are painful and difficult. We can learn to create change in ourselves and our relationships - by doing the hard work. 

Therapy offers space to get new perspectives from someone who has your back. Together, we map out new ways to interact, feel, and think. Therapy shouldn’t be easy — but it’s worth it. You don’t have to do this on your own. 

I’ve been working in the mental health field for 12 years in a varied career, including the foster care system, addictions treatment, corrections, crisis intervention, case management, and the hospital mental health system, before starting in private practice in 2019.