“The best way out is through”
– Robert Frost
About Me
My name is Nicole Myles and I am a Registered Clinical Social Worker who specializes in working with children and their parents in what I believe is the hardest job – parenting!
It takes real courage and sacrifice to reach out and ask for help. Whether you are looking to help yourself or your child, this process brings up many unwanted and challenging feelings. My hope is to support you and/or your child to look inward and navigate these emotions and identify the feelings that have been getting in the way. Instead of avoiding these feelings, we will work together to process them with the ultimate goal of experiencing real change, for yourself and your relationships. Together we will create a parenting approach that will work for your child’s most challenging behaviours.
Connect with me for a free 15 minute consultation
by phone at 647-740-1308 or by email at nicole@therapywithnicole.com
My Approach
I primarily work from an Emotion Focused Therapeutic (EFT) and Emotion Focused Skills Training (EFST) approach: I also utilize several other theoretical frameworks and models of change, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Attachment Based Family Therapy (ABFT), Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Family Systems Therapy and I utilize various techniques and strategies from mindfulness based practices
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My goal is to support children and teens and young adults in identifying and processing their emotions by helping them to develop self-regulation and self-awareness skills
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I assist parents by enhancing their emotion skills, utilizing their motivation and tuning into their parenting wisdom.
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I support families by utilizing attachment based and emotion focused interventions to strengthen the bond between child and parent. After all, parents are the experts in their children’s lives; the therapist is just a guest.
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As a trained Emotion Focused Therapist, Nicole offers supervision and teaches how to facilitate EFT in a therapist's own practice.
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I co-facilitate a two-day intensive workshop which supports parents to “assess and address” their child’s big emotions. Utilizing an Emotion Focused Therapeutic approach, we challenge parents to look underneath their child’s behaviours and connect to their emotion brains. This workshop will help parents support their children to self-regulate, improve communication and connection, repair relationships, explore boundary setting and support parents to feel more confident in their role as a caregiver.
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“We don’t have
to do all of it alone.
We were never
meant to.”
– Brené Brown
Areas of expertise
Parenting
Relationship issues
Family conflict
Self esteem
Social skills
Self-regulation
Learning Disabilities
ADHD
Anxiety
Depression
Autism
Qualifications
Nicole achieved her Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Toronto in 2011. She began her career at the Hincks Dellcrest Centre where she received extensive training in individual and family therapy. Early in Nicole’s career, she became interested in attachment theory and the impact it has on the relationships that children and adults form with others. Nicole studied attachment interventions and became certified in Attachment Based Family Therapy. Throughout this process, she developed an interest for trauma work and completed extensive training with Geraldine Crisci and Nancy Mayer. Nicole has received training and certification in narrative therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Over the past 8 years, Nicole has become a certified Emotion Focused Therapist receiving years of supervision and training from well respected therapists such as; Joanne Dolhanty which has allowed her to specializing in working with parents and families and well as train and supervise other therapists in this modality.
Nicole has worked with diverse clientele and in various clinical settings. She has supported children and their families who struggle with mental health diagnoses, such as anxiety, depression and developmental challenges. Nicole most recently worked for the Integra program at the Child Development Institute. Integra is Canada’s only accredited children’s mental health agency serving children and youth with mental health issues complicated by learning disabilities.
Presently, Nicole works in private practice, supporting children and their families. Nicole believes in a family approach and that problems do not occur in isolation. She understands that underneath the most challenging of behaviours are unresolved and avoided emotions. She believes that change can happen when you look inward and begin to process difficult feelings. Nicole’s goal is to support families to achieve their goals and to strengthen the bond between parents and their children.