Dakota

Dakota Grass

Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

I primarily use emotion focused therapy with individuals and couples to build a strong therapeutic alliance and assist in processing core emotions. I am eager to explore your current and past narratives to understand you and your mental health challenges.

About Me

I use Emotion-Focused Therapy with individuals and couples. We will build a strong, trusting alliance. Together, we can explore your current and past narratives to understand your mental health challenges. My aim is to help you process core emotions, making sense of what you feel. This approach suits those ready to deepen their self-understanding and find new paths forward.

Approach

We attend to the feelings beneath your stories, shaping sessions around careful tracking, naming, and gentle experiment—following whatever emerges rather than a fixed script. I see clients in London, Ontario and online in English, keeping scheduling and pacing flexible to match school, work, or caregiving demands. Sessions blend focused emotional work with body awareness and brief between-session experiments so you can practice new ways of relating and coping. This way of working tends to suit people seeking clearer emotional clarity and steadier connections.
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Basic Information

Services


Services Offered:

  • Trauma Counseling

    Counselling specifically for people affected by traumatic events, focused on processing what happened and reducing symptoms like flashbacks and hypervigilance.

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  • Relationship Counseling

    Counselling for couples or partners focused on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and strengthening emotional connection.

  • Psychotherapy

    In-depth therapeutic work that explores patterns in thoughts, emotions, and relationships to produce lasting psychological change.

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Works With:

  • Adolescents
  • Adults
  • Couples
  • Individuals

Area of Expertise


Scope of Practice:

  • Addiction

    A compulsive dependence on a substance or behaviour, such as alcohol, drugs, or gambling, that causes harmful consequences to health, relationships, or daily life.

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  • Adolescent Therapy

    Therapy designed for teenagers, using age-appropriate methods to address issues like anxiety, identity, peer pressure, and family conflict.

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  • Relationship Issues

    Difficulties in romantic relationships, including communication problems, trust breakdowns, conflict patterns, or uncertainty about the relationship's future.

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  • Grief & Loss

    The emotional, physical, and psychological response to the death of a loved one or another significant loss.

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  • LGBTQI+ Support

    The unique psychological experiences of LGBTQI+ individuals, including identity exploration, coming out, discrimination, minority stress, and relationship dynamics.

  • Personal Development

    The ongoing process of self-awareness, self-improvement, and reaching one's potential, pursued not because something is wrong but to live more fully.

  • Relationship Counseling

    Counselling for couples or partners focused on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and strengthening emotional connection.

  • Abuse

    Emotional, physical, or sexual mistreatment by another person that causes lasting psychological harm and disrupts a person's sense of safety.

  • Young Adult Issues

    The unique psychological challenges of emerging adulthood (18–25), including identity formation, independence, relationship navigation, and finding direction.

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Professional Title:

  • Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

    A psychotherapist completing supervised practice toward full registration as a registered psychotherapist.

Qualifications


Kings University College

Yorkville University

Fanshawe College

Registrations


College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO)

Psychotherapy

Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers

Social Worker

Service Area


Blueprint Counselling

In-person & Online

Soho

London, Ontario

Canada