Keystone Therapy

We provide a person-centred approach to brain-based therapy that is designed to educate, empower, engage, and facilitate processes of growth, self-awareness, and self-healing.

Keystone Therapy offers neuro-counselling/psychotherapy services for adult and child clients who may have ADHD, ADD and ASD symptoms.

We also specialize in neuropsychology, behavioural neuroscience and Brain-Based Therapies (BBT) and their application to challenges such as ADHD, Anger, Anxiety, Attachment, Autism, Depression, Emotional Regulation, and Trauma.

​We also provide stress management therapy designed to mitigate and ameliorate the impacts of stress upon the psychological, neurological and immunological systems that can lead to mental and physical health problems.

We also offer Mind-body integration which is about embodying self-awareness so that we can genuinely transform our minds and regulate our emotions. The mind-body skills practiced give us the opportunity to become aware of ourselves on a deeper level and learn how to manage our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.

Keystone Therapy has developed a model of the root causes of behaviour.  The model is holistic in that it integrates neurobiological, social and cultural impacts upon the psychological processes that underlie mental health. Introducing new learning, which brings about changes in the brain, results in concomitant changes in behaviour. Thus, through utilizing the brain’s inherent ability (“neuroplasticity”) to form new neural connections new behaviours arise.

We also provide stress management therapy designed to mitigate and ameliorate the impacts of stress upon the psychological, neurological and immunological systems that can lead to mental and physical health problems.

In addition, we offer Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) services that address challenges affecting our psychology, our nervous system, and our immune system.  PNI deals with how loneliness induces inflammation during stress, as shown by increases by molecules normally involved in immune system support being more activated in this situation. The only way our immune system ‘knows’ we are lonely and that it is stressful to be alone is our perception, which is dictated to our hypothalamus in the brain stem. The hypothalamus, responsible for knowing when we are hungry or thirsty, if we are hot or cold, or whether we should procreate for our continued existence at its basic functions, responds to basic needs to keep us alive. In turn, our body responds and induces an immune system response to “defend” us from this “attack”.

If we can imagine then that we are a system that loops upon itself, feeding back into itself, isn’t it vital not only to give the body what it needs but to find a life for ourselves emotionally and mentally that supports us?

To support our services, we also offer Mind-body integration which is about embodying self-awareness so that we can genuinely transform our minds and regulate our emotions. The mind-body skills practiced give us the opportunity to become aware of ourselves on a deeper level and learn how to manage our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.

Mind-body integration is an invaluable resource for those seeking emotional healing and self-awareness. By embodying the skills that mind-body medicine teaches, we can give ourselves the space needed to start a deeper healing process. Learning these tools definitely takes time, so don't be discouraged if it doesn't all come at once. Practice patience with yourself as you grow and develop a deeper understanding of who you are on an emotional level. With a commitment to daily work both inside and outside of sessions, true growth may occur.

Mind-body integration plays a vital role in the healing journey of many of our clients, helping them address underlying emotional concerns and expressing belief systems in a non-judgmental environment.

To support the above we use a range of tools, techniques, and materials that support clients in achieving their desired goals and outcomes.

We also provide Neurodiversity affirming sevices.

​It’s the idea that individuals have differences in their abilities and how they interact with the world around them – differences which are not considered to be deficits that need to be “fixed”.

​Rather, those who view individuals in this light consider neurodiversity to be natural. The world should be accepting of people’s differences in how they think, learn, process, and perceive information.