Brant is a clinical psychology registrar who works with and welcomes adults from all backgrounds, gender identities, and sexual orientations. He respects the complexity of life and wishes to create a warm, non-judgemental relationship with his clients that focuses on their goals and fosters long-term change.

 

Brant firmly believes in the necessity of individually tailored psychological interventions. His practice is neuroaffirming, and with the understanding of lived experience, Brant is able to collaboratively adjust therapy to meet neurodiversity needs.

 

Brant is particularly interested in the following:

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• Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): Brant has deep compassion for the distress associated with symptoms of BPD. Symptoms of BPD include intense mood swings/difficulty controlling anger, an unstable/rapidly shifting sense of self, intense and unstable relationships, self-harm/suicidality, and difficulties with impulse control. Brant hopes to build a warm and supportive relationship with his clients to help them explore and reduce their symptoms. People can and do recover.

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• Complex Trauma and PTSD: Brant has experienced treating trauma using a variety of modalities, such as prolonged exposure therapy and schema therapy. Brant hopes to help clients confront their difficult emotions and feelings within the safety of the therapeutic relationship to resolve their symptoms and rediscover meaning in life.

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• Eating Disorders: Offering CBT-E (cognitive behavioural therapy) to treat various eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

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• Difficulties forming and maintaining meaningful relationships: Helping clients build insight into the unmet emotional needs and early relationships that lead to their current difficulties and then helping them approach their painful feelings and change their behaviour.

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• Depression and anxiety: Experienced in treating depression and anxiety disorders such as generalised anxiety disorder and social anxiety disorder. Brant hopes to help clients understand themselves deeply and uncover the meaning behind their symptoms to improve their well-being.​

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• Life transitions: Providing a safe and non-judgemental space to explore difficult feelings associated with life transitions.

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• Low self-esteem Helping clients form a more balanced, realistic view of themselves by nuancing their subjective life narrative and building insight into how their self-representation developed across the lifespan.

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Brant’s approach to therapy is integrative but is largely influenced by schema therapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy, which means his orientation emphasises the interplay between biology and one’s early life experiences in the shaping of oneself as an adult, as well as unconscious processes. That being said, if applicable, he can deliver a number of present-focused therapies, such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).