A Journey to Balance and Authenticity

Marie cultivates a warm and welcoming environment for her clients, whether they are individuals, couples, or families. Her goal is to establish a relationship of trust and mutual respect in order to enhance the effectiveness of therapy. She takes a personalized approach for each client, carefully tailoring treatment to each person's unique needs and circumstances, with the aim of helping them achieve a healthy, fulfilling, and well-balanced life. Marie sees herself as a partner in her clients' journey towards wellness and personal growth, committed to empowering them to reach their goals. With her exceptional communication skills and deep empathy, Marie creates a safe and comfortable space where clients can explore their inner world and find the support they need to thrive.

Services

Marie Demers, LMFT

“An open mind contains uncharted territory that beckons us to explore its most precious lessons in acceptance and transformation.”

– Marie Demers

About Marie

The Philosophy

Using a strength-based approach and curiosity, Marie encourages her clients to introspect, all while providing them with the ideal lens for a better understanding of themselves, their experience, and their surroundings.  Marie introduces them to the concept of a “brave space” for the exploration of their mindset, resiliency, motivation, and the obstacles preventing them from living their best life.  Seeing how a specific individual’s relationships, environment, and culture influence his/her/their lifestyle and decisions enables her to bring awareness to their journey of change. She genuinely can’t wait to get to know you!

The Methods

  • Attachment Theory

    A felt sense of being able to depend on a loved one creates a secure base that allows us to go explore the world, take risks and develop a sense of competence and autonomy. This is called effective dependency and is a source of strength and resilience.

    When attachment relationships function well, a person learns that distance and autonomy are completely compatible with closeness and reliance on others.

  • Polyvagal Theory

    The stories we tell ourselves about who we are and how the world works begin in the autonomic nervous system; information is sent from the body to the brain where it is translated into the beliefs that shape our lives. The brain takes our autonomic information and creates a story to help make sense of what is happening in the body

    Stories about self, the world, and our relationships are based on the autonomic state. STATES CREATE STORY. If we want to change the story, we need to start by changing our state.

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy

    Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is based on clear, explicit research-based conceptualizations of individual growth, health and dysfunction, and relationship distress and adult love.

    The EFT model prioritizes emotion and emotional regulation as the key organizing agents in individual experience and key relationship interactions.

  • Trauma Resiliency Model

    Designed to help individuals understand the biology of traumatic stress reactions and learn specific skills to return the body, mind, and spirit back to balance. These skills can awaken the hope that has, for some, been lost.

  • Strength-Based Theory

    Strength-based therapy is talk therapy that guides you toward a retelling of your personal history of traumas, stressors, and pain with more emphasis on yourself as a survivor than as a victim, and more emphasis on your strengths and survival skills than on your weakness.

  • Person-Centered Theory

    This approach explores the ways in which individuals perceive themselves consciously, rather than delving into the interpretation of unconscious thoughts and ideas. It believes that people are essentially good and that, ultimately, individuals know what is right for them. The therapeutic relationship is the critical variable, not what the therapist says or does.