ShiftGrit Core Method

🔄 What Makes This Method Different?

Many clients come to us after trying traditional talk therapy or self-help tools — only to find that insight didn’t translate to change.
That’s because the reactions they’re trying to change aren’t just cognitive — they’re wired into what we call the Walnut Brain, the part of the mind responsible for detecting and responding to perceived threats.

The ShiftGrit Core Method addresses this directly, helping clients recognize and shift the internal patterns keeping them stuck.

🧠 Pattern Theory: Understanding the Why

We begin by teaching clients about identity-level patterns — how they form, and how they show up in the present.
These are often based on deeply rooted limiting beliefs like:

• “I’m not good enough”

• “If I slow down, I’ll fall behind”

• “People only value me when I’m useful”
  
  

These beliefs lead to pressure, burnout, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, and even physical exhaustion.

🔁 Reconditioning: Changing the Reaction

Once the pattern is clear, we move into a reconditioning process that uses imaginal exposure and structured protocols to remove the emotional charge from the belief itself.
This often leads to:

• Fewer automatic stress responses

• Improved emotional regulation

• Reduced reactivity in key relationships

• More freedom to act from choice, not fear
  
  

This part of therapy is not about coping better — it’s about removing the root trigger that makes coping necessary in the first place.

🧭 Local Therapy in Edmonton, Designed for Change

Our Edmonton-based psychologists are trained in this method and apply it in a way that’s tailored to your goals, needs, and real-world stressors.
Whether you’re dealing with burnout, performance anxiety, emotional reactivity, or simply feel stuck — this method gives us a map to work from, and a pathway forward.

📘 Learn More

• Read more on Identity Patterns Therapy →

• Visit our Burnout Therapy Edmonton page →

• Or Book an Intake Session to get started

📍 Serving Edmonton & Alberta