WHAT WE OFFER
We believe that everyone has an aura—a unique energy and presence that surrounds them and reflects their inner world. Our mission is to help you heal and strengthen your aura through compassionate, client-centered care. By walking alongside you in a collaborative partnership, we support your growth and healing across mind, body, soul, and spirit. When you thrive, our community thrives—and that's the heart of everything we do.
Individual Therapy
AURA offers high-quality, confidential, psychotherapy for individuals who are seeking help to work through issues they are facing in their daily lives and relationships including trauma, stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem
and more.
AURA utilizes modalities such as motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioural therapy, emotionally-focused therapy, and solution-focused therapy to help best support our client's needs.
Couples Therapy
Every relationship has its ups and downs, highs and lows. Life gets stressful and the strain may become too much to handle alone or together.
At AURA, we are that outside, objective perspective you both might need to help navigate the life challenges that are negatively affecting your relationship.
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We're here to help!
Hypnotherapy
AURA offers Hypnotherapy in North Bay as a supportive, client-centered option for those feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or held back by unhelpful patterns or emotional stress. Whether you’re facing anxiety, low self-worth, or unwanted habits, we create a safe, relaxed space to explore change at a deeper level and support your overall well-being.
Therapy for
Disordered Eating
At AURA in North Bay, we provide Therapy for Disordered Eating in a compassionate, non-judgmental setting for individuals who feel preoccupied with food, body image, or eating habits. We understand how challenging these patterns can be and offer support to help you build self-compassion, find balance, and work toward a healthier relationship with yourself.
Therapy for
Personality Disorders
AURA offers Therapy for Personality Disorders in North Bay for those navigating intense emotions, relationship struggles, or persistent patterns that feel hard to shift. We create a safe space where you can explore your experiences, understand yourself more deeply, and develop strategies that support meaningful change at your own pace.​
EMDR Therapy
AURA provides EMDR Therapy in North Bay for individuals coping with trauma, anxiety, or distressing memories that continue to impact their daily life. This structured approach helps you process difficult experiences in a safe and supportive way, so you can move forward with more confidence, clarity, and emotional stability.
OUR APPROACH
Your aura is as unique as you are, and we honor that in everything we do. When you take that courageous first step and connect with our team, we begin with a thoughtful psychosocial assessment to truly understand you and your needs. From there, we collaborate with you to create a personalized plan that supports your healing and growth. Drawing from a range of therapeutic modalities, we walk alongside you every step of the way—gently guiding, supporting, and empowering you to strengthen your presence and nurture your whole self.
OUR SERVICES
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours that contribute to emotional distress. It offers practical, everyday tools to help you manage challenges like anxiety, depression, and stress with greater confidence and clarity.
Strength-Based / Client Centered Therapy
This approach honours your lived experience, values, and personal strengths. Therapy is collaborative and supportive, creating a warm, non-judgmental space where you can build confidence, resilience, and deeper self-understanding.
Parts Therapy
Parts Therapy helps you understand and compassionately engage with different aspects of yourself that may hold conflicting emotions or needs. By building awareness and acceptance of these inner 'parts,' this approach supports emotional integration and inner harmony.
Rational-Emotive
Behavioural Therapy (REBT)
REBT helps identify and gently challenge rigid or unhelpful beliefs that contribute to emotional distress. This approach supports the development of healthier thinking patterns, emotional balance, and adaptive ways of coping with life's challenges.
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy supports individuals who experience intense emotions or find relationships and distress difficult to navigate. It builds practical skills in emotional regulation, mindfulness, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation and focused attention to access the subconscious mind, where deeply held patterns and beliefs often reside. This gentle approach can support change in areas like anxiety, habits, trauma, and self-confidence by working with your mind's natural capacity for healing.
Mindfulness-Based Interventions
Mindfulness-Based Interventions cultivate present-moment awareness with openness and non-judgment. These practices help reduce stress, manage difficult emotions, and build a kinder, more grounded relationship with yourself and your experiences.
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy helps individuals and couples explore emotions, attachment needs, and relationship patterns in a safe, supportive space. This approach nurtures deeper emotional connection, more authentic communication, and stronger, more secure bonds.
Existential
Therapy
Existential Therapy explores life's deeper questions—meaning, identity, freedom, and responsibility. It offers grounding support for those navigating life transitions, uncertainty, or a sense of disconnection, helping you find clarity and renewed purpose.
Transpersonal Therapy
Transpersonal Therapy weaves together psychological and spiritual perspectives to support personal growth and expanded self-awareness. It may explore meaning, values, and inner experiences that reach beyond the individual self, nurturing holistic well-being.
Solution-Focused
Brief Counselling
Solution-Focused Brief Counselling is a goal-oriented approach that addresses immediate concerns with practical, collaborative strategies. It helps you recognize what's already working, set clear goals, and move toward meaningful change efficiently.
Spirit-Building
Practices
Spirit-Building Practices support personal growth, meaning-making, and inner connection. These practices may include reflection, values exploration, and culturally or spiritually informed approaches that nurture your overall sense of well-being and purpose.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems views the mind as made up of distinct 'parts,' each with its own feelings, memories, and intentions. This compassionate approach helps you understand, befriend, and harmonize these inner parts—guided by your core Self—to promote deep healing and wholeness.
Trauma-Informed
Care
Trauma-Informed Care recognizes that past experiences of trauma can deeply affect how we feel, think, and relate to others. This approach prioritizes safety, trust, and choice, creating a therapeutic environment where healing can unfold at your own pace with dignity and respect.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Solution-Focused Therapy centres your strengths and existing resources rather than dwelling on problems. Together, we identify achievable goals and practical steps toward meaningful change—often in a shorter timeframe than traditional approaches.
Counterstorying
Therapy
Counterstorying invites you to explore and re-author personal narratives that may have been shaped by marginalization, trauma, or limiting beliefs. This empowering approach supports identity development and healing through the transformative power of storytelling.
Somatic Psychotherapy
Somatic Psychotherapy honours the deep connection between mind and body. By gently tuning into physical sensations and bodily responses, this approach helps process stress, trauma, and emotional experiences held in the body.
Narrative
Therapy
Narrative Therapy views you as separate from your problems—you are not your struggles. This approach helps you examine and reshape personal stories, fostering empowerment, fresh perspectives, and a stronger sense of agency in your own life.
Attachment-Based
Therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships and attachment experiences shape the way we connect with ourselves and others. In a safe, attuned therapeutic relationship, this approach helps heal old wounds, build trust, and develop more secure, fulfilling connections.
Self-Compassion Theory
Self-Compassion practices invite you to treat yourself with the same kindness, understanding, and care you would offer a close friend. This approach helps soften self-criticism, build emotional resilience, and nurture a more accepting relationship with yourself—especially during difficult times.
Have Questions? Let's Chat
It's okay to want to not know where to begin with therapy. That's why our team are here to take your questions.
​
Feel free to send a quick message on our website contact form and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
​
OUR SERVICES
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours that contribute to emotional distress. It offers practical, everyday tools to help you manage challenges like anxiety, depression, and stress with greater confidence and clarity.
Strength-Based / Client Centered Therapy
This approach honours your lived experience, values, and personal strengths. Therapy is collaborative and supportive, creating a warm, non-judgmental space where you can build confidence, resilience, and deeper self-understanding.
Parts Therapy
Parts Therapy helps you understand and compassionately engage with different aspects of yourself that may hold conflicting emotions or needs. By building awareness and acceptance of these inner 'parts,' this approach supports emotional integration and inner harmony.
Rational-Emotive
Behavioural Therapy (REBT)
REBT helps identify and gently challenge rigid or unhelpful beliefs that contribute to emotional distress. This approach supports the development of healthier thinking patterns, emotional balance, and adaptive ways of coping with life's challenges.
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy supports individuals who experience intense emotions or find relationships and distress difficult to navigate. It builds practical skills in emotional regulation, mindfulness, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation and focused attention to access the subconscious mind, where deeply held patterns and beliefs often reside. This gentle approach can support change in areas like anxiety, habits, trauma, and self-confidence by working with your mind's natural capacity for healing.
Mindfulness-Based Interventions
Mindfulness-Based Interventions cultivate present-moment awareness with openness and non-judgment. These practices help reduce stress, manage difficult emotions, and build a kinder, more grounded relationship with yourself and your experiences.
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy helps individuals and couples explore emotions, attachment needs, and relationship patterns in a safe, supportive space. This approach nurtures deeper emotional connection, more authentic communication, and stronger, more secure bonds.
Existential
Therapy
Existential Therapy explores life's deeper questions—meaning, identity, freedom, and responsibility. It offers grounding support for those navigating life transitions, uncertainty, or a sense of disconnection, helping you find clarity and renewed purpose.
Transpersonal Therapy
Transpersonal Therapy weaves together psychological and spiritual perspectives to support personal growth and expanded self-awareness. It may explore meaning, values, and inner experiences that reach beyond the individual self, nurturing holistic well-being.
Solution-Focused
Brief Counselling
Solution-Focused Brief Counselling is a goal-oriented approach that addresses immediate concerns with practical, collaborative strategies. It helps you recognize what's already working, set clear goals, and move toward meaningful change efficiently.
Spirit-Building
Practices
Spirit-Building Practices support personal growth, meaning-making, and inner connection. These practices may include reflection, values exploration, and culturally or spiritually informed approaches that nurture your overall sense of well-being and purpose.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems views the mind as made up of distinct 'parts,' each with its own feelings, memories, and intentions. This compassionate approach helps you understand, befriend, and harmonize these inner parts—guided by your core Self—to promote deep healing and wholeness.
Trauma-Informed
Care
Trauma-Informed Care recognizes that past experiences of trauma can deeply affect how we feel, think, and relate to others. This approach prioritizes safety, trust, and choice, creating a therapeutic environment where healing can unfold at your own pace with dignity and respect.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Solution-Focused Therapy centres your strengths and existing resources rather than dwelling on problems. Together, we identify achievable goals and practical steps toward meaningful change—often in a shorter timeframe than traditional approaches.
Counterstorying
Therapy
Counterstorying invites you to explore and re-author personal narratives that may have been shaped by marginalization, trauma, or limiting beliefs. This empowering approach supports identity development and healing through the transformative power of storytelling.
Somatic Psychotherapy
Somatic Psychotherapy honours the deep connection between mind and body. By gently tuning into physical sensations and bodily responses, this approach helps process stress, trauma, and emotional experiences held in the body.
Narrative
Therapy
Narrative Therapy views you as separate from your problems—you are not your struggles. This approach helps you examine and reshape personal stories, fostering empowerment, fresh perspectives, and a stronger sense of agency in your own life.
Attachment-Based
Therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships and attachment experiences shape the way we connect with ourselves and others. In a safe, attuned therapeutic relationship, this approach helps heal old wounds, build trust, and develop more secure, fulfilling connections.
Self-Compassion Theory
Self-Compassion practices invite you to treat yourself with the same kindness, understanding, and care you would offer a close friend. This approach helps soften self-criticism, build emotional resilience, and nurture a more accepting relationship with yourself—especially during difficult times.
HAVE QUESTIONS? LET'S CHAT!
It's okay to want to not know where to begin with therapy. That's why our team are here to take your questions.
​
Feel free to send a quick message on our website contact form and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
​
Our Services
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours that contribute to emotional distress. It offers practical, everyday tools to help you manage challenges like anxiety, depression, and stress with greater confidence and clarity.
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy helps individuals and couples explore emotions, attachment needs, and relationship patterns in a safe, supportive space. This approach nurtures deeper emotional connection, more authentic communication, and stronger, more secure bonds.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Solution-Focused Therapy centres your strengths and existing resources rather than dwelling on problems. Together, we identify achievable goals and practical steps toward meaningful change—often in a shorter timeframe than traditional approaches.
Strength-Based / Client Centered Therapy
Existential Therapy
Counterstorying Therapy
This approach honours your lived experience, values, and personal strengths. Therapy is collaborative and supportive, creating a warm, non-judgmental space where you can build confidence, resilience, and deeper self-understanding.
Existential Therapy explores life's deeper questions—meaning, identity, freedom, and responsibility. It offers grounding support for those navigating life transitions, uncertainty, or a sense of disconnection, helping you find clarity and renewed purpose.
Counterstorying invites you to explore and re-author personal narratives that may have been shaped by marginalization, trauma, or limiting beliefs. This empowering approach supports identity development and healing through the transformative power of storytelling.
Our Services
Parts Therapy
Transpersonal Therapy
Somatic Psychotherapy
Narrative Therapy
Helps you understand and compassionately engage with different aspects of yourself that may hold conflicting emotions or needs. By building awareness and acceptance of these inner 'parts,' this approach supports emotional integration and inner harmony.
Weaves together psychological and spiritual perspectives to support personal growth and expanded self-awareness. It may explore meaning, values, and inner experiences that reach beyond the individual self, nurturing holistic well-being.
Honours the deep connection between mind and body. By gently tuning into physical sensations and bodily responses, this approach helps process stress, trauma, and emotional experiences held in the body.
Views you as separate from your problems—you are not your struggles. This approach helps you examine and reshape personal stories, fostering empowerment, fresh perspectives, and a stronger sense of agency in your own life.
Rational-Emotive
Behavioural Therapy
Solution-Focused
Brief Counselling
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
Spirit Building
Practices
Helps identify and gently challenge rigid or unhelpful beliefs that contribute to emotional distress. This approach supports the development of healthier thinking patterns, emotional balance, and adaptive ways of coping with life's challenges.
A goal-oriented approach that addresses immediate concerns with practical, collaborative strategies. It helps you recognize what's already working, set clear goals, and move toward meaningful change efficiently.
Supports individuals who experience intense emotions or find relationships and distress difficult to navigate. It builds practical skills in emotional regulation, mindfulness, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Support personal growth, meaning-making, and inner connection. These practices may incorporate reflection, values exploration, and culturally or spiritually informed approaches to support overall well-being.
Attachment-Based
Therapy
Hynotherapy
Internal Family
Systems (IFS)
Mindfulness-Based
Interventions
Explores how early relationships and attachment experiences shape the way we connect with ourselves and others. In a safe, attuned therapeutic relationship, this approach helps heal old wounds, build trust, and develop more secure, fulfilling connections.
Uses guided relaxation and focused attention to access the subconscious mind, where deeply held patterns and beliefs often reside. This gentle approach can support change in areas like anxiety, habits, trauma, and self-confidence by working with your mind's natural capacity for healing.
Views the mind as made up of distinct 'parts,' each with its own feelings, memories, and intentions. This compassionate approach helps you understand, befriend, and harmonize these inner parts—guided by your core Self—to promote deep healing and wholeness.
Cultivate present-moment awareness with openness and non-judgment. These practices help reduce stress, manage difficult emotions, and build a kinder, more grounded relationship with yourself and your experiences.
Self-Compassion Therapy
Invite you to treat yourself with the same kindness, understanding, and care you would offer a close friend. This approach helps soften self-criticism, build emotional resilience, and nurture a more accepting relationship with yourself—especially during difficult times.
Trauma-Informed Care
Recognizes that past experiences of trauma can deeply affect how we feel, think, and relate to others. This approach prioritizes safety, trust, and choice, creating a therapeutic environment where healing can unfold at your own pace with dignity and respect.
Have Questions? Let's Chat
It's okay to want to not know where to begin with therapy. That's why our team are here to take your questions.
​
Feel free to send a quick message on our website contact form and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
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