It’s time to exist empowered.
Our integrative approach to therapy encourages growth and fulfillment.
Honouring your unique experiences with disordered eating, trauma, and body-related shame, with our humanistic approach to therapy, helping you feel understood, nurtured, and empowered.
Live Empowered prioritizes your emotional development and facilitates sustainable change by using a variety of psychotherapeutic approaches that embrace emotional individuality, rather than replacing, avoiding, controlling, and stuffing down emotions.
We focus on the beauty of the journey, not just the destination.
Let us get to know you.
If you’re feeling unseen and alone, you’ve come to the right place.
We’re here to listen and support.
Instead of bandaiding your problems, me and my team focus on showing up for you in a way that allows you to show up for yourself.
We value personal growth over quick fixes. We honour your unique experiences with our humanistic approach to therapy, leaving you feeling understood, nurtured, and empowered.
Live Empowered prioritizes your emotional development and facilitates sustainable change by using a variety of psychotherapeutic approaches that embrace emotional individuality.
THERAPY SERVICES
Your feelings are valid and valued.
You deserve to feel peace and I believe that’s accomplished through acceptance. Acceptance of self. Acceptance of your emotions. Acceptance of your struggles. Through acceptance, I support you in moving toward self-compassion, because you’re worthy of it.
We use various therapies, with a strong focus on Emotion-Focused Therapy.
In-Person Psychotherapy:
An all-encompassing approach to therapy that accepts you as you are and fosters insight, emotional change, and personal growth.
Group Psychotherapy:
Feel less alone and more supported in a community of people who lift you up and empathize with your struggles.
Dietician Services:
Through our understanding of eating disorders/disordered eating, we support and encourage you through every stage of recovery. We are patient and committed to honouring your pace.
Hi! I’m Martina!
I'm a Registered Psychotherapist serving Niagara Falls and surrounding areas, specializing in the humanistic treatment approach to mental health, with a focus on understanding the emotions around eating disorders/disordered eating, trauma, anxiety, and body-related shame.
With education, clinical experience, and personal lived experience, I understand the feeling of being disconnected from your true self. With a primary focus in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), I dedicate my practice to the understanding that each person has unique needs. I draw from a variety of other approaches to therapy including Psychoeducation, Trauma-Informed Therapy, Mindfulness-focused therapies, and Intuitive Eating to best care for those individual needs.
I believe that understanding and processing emotions is fundamental to creating sustainable change. You deserve to have a meaningful and fulfilling life. You deserve to take the time to grow personally and have your needs met. I focus on the processing of your emotions so that you can live the life you deserve.
Live the life you deserve!
Feeling disconnected from your true self?
Through education, clinical experience, and personal lived experience, we understand the complexities of treating a person suffering in these areas. We also empathize with the effects of feeling unseen, unheard, and alone.
Preoccupation with food and body image often leaves one feeling on the outside of everything happening around them; a prisoner in your body and in your life.
Only when you are taught to navigate life through a lens of worthiness, compassion, and love, can you push past the cycle of comparison and all-or-nothing thinking, and nourish the emotionally overwhelmed parts of you.
Gaining a deeper understanding of yourself, your needs, your wants, and your value allows you to more confidently journey through personal growth.
Our evidence-based approaches to therapy encourages you towards change with longevity. With a positive focus on identifying, feeling, and experiencing your emotions, we show up for you in a way that fosters the ability to show up for yourself.
You’re worthy of sustainable change!
HOW TO GET STARTED
You’ve taken the first step, so let’s take the next step!
This is how it works:
Phone Consultation
Start by booking your initial consultation. We’ll establish if we’re a good fit based on mutual comfort levels and our confidence in our ability to support your holistic therapy journey.
Therapy Sessions
During the initial sessions we will establish a deeper understanding of the fears, worries, and concerns you would like to move away from and the wants, needs, and desires you would like to move toward. Based on that, we will create a comprehensive approach for your treatment.
The Journey Continues
Beginning with weekly or bi-weekly appointments, we focus on your emotional, behavioural, and body-felt sensations. We work toward feelings of validation and visibility, as you move through your personal growth journey.
Sometimes it takes a village…
And this village is ready to support you every step of the way! The Live Empowered Team includes psychotherapists, a social worker, and a dietician, all specializing in eating disorders/disordered eating, body image struggles, trauma, and anxiety.
We are ready to help you create sustainable change by using an integrative approach that replace avoiding, controlling, and numbing out emotions with identifying and feeling.
We’re here to listen and embrace the essence of you!
Blogs for the Empowered Soul
Visit our library of resources written for you, your family, and those around you. Retreat into being seen, heard, and supported.
Find the resources that will best suit you in your personal growth journey!
A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO THERAPY WORTH EXPLORING
You’re here for a reason.
Let us give you the support you deserve!