Dr. Sherri Bruce Cabrera Services
Look to a Brighter Future
DR. SHERRI BRUCE CABRERA PSYCHOLOGIST offers therapy to help adults and couples overcome their hurdles, change behavioural patterns and better their emotional health.
Issues you may want help with include:
Grief and Loss
Depression and Anxiety
Balancing Stress and Life’s Demands
Conflict in Marriage and Relationships
Adjustments due to Life Transitions
Surviving Parenthood
Communication Breakdown
Trauma Recovery
Career Challenges
Emotional, Physical and Sexual Abuse
Military Members, Veterans, RCMP & First Responders
Military service, policing, and first-responder work can profoundly influence identity, relationships, leadership, and well-being. I provide culturally informed support for active-duty military members, veterans, reservists, RCMP members, first responders, and their families experiencing:
Operational stress injuries (OSI)
Post-traumatic stress and trauma-related symptoms
Moral injury and ethical conflicts
Depression, anxiety, and burnout
Grief and loss
Military-to-civilian transition challenges
Family and relationship concerns
Identity and purpose after service
I direct-bill Medavie Blue Cross for Canadian Armed Forces, Veterans Affairs, and RCMP patients — please see the Fees page for details.
Healthcare Professionals
Caring for others professionally — as a nurse, physician, or veterinarian — often comes at a personal cost. I support healthcare professionals navigating burnout, chronic workplace stress, unresolved attachment wounds, and unrealistic expectations of performance and self.
Teachers & Educators
Educators often carry tremendous emotional, cognitive, and relational responsibilities. I help teachers navigate burnout, set healthy boundaries, manage overwhelm, address workplace conflict, and reconnect with a sustainable sense of purpose in their work.
Seniors & Older Adults
Later life can bring significant transitions that affect emotional well-being, identity, relationships, and health. I support older adults navigating retirement, changes in health and independence, caregiving stress, grief and cumulative loss, and questions of meaning and purpose.
Indigenous Peoples & Intergenerational Trauma
The impacts of Residential Schools, colonial policies, and historical trauma continue to affect individuals, families, and communities across generations. Drawing on my experience consulting with Saanich First Nations bands, I strive to provide a respectful, culturally safe, and trauma-informed space to explore intergenerational trauma, loss of culture and identity, grief, and reconnection with cultural strengths.
Telepsychology Services: (also known as Teletherapy)
Telepsychology is a form of psychological service provided via secure internet technology. It has the same purpose or intention as psychotherapy or psychological treatment sessions that are conducted face-to-face at the offices of Dr. Sherri Bruce Cabrera, Licensed Psychologist. Due to the nature of the technology used, Telepsychology services may be experienced somewhat differently than face-to-face treatment sessions. Teletherapy involves arranging an appointment time between the patient and the psychological service provider (therapist) when both parties can interface from their computers via the internet or by telephone.
Psychologists recommendations: The appropriateness of using telepsychology as a medium for therapy will be decided on an individual basis by the Psychologist. Patients who are actively at risk of harm to self or others are not suitable for Telepsychology services. If this is the case or becomes the case in the future, speak to your treatment provider and more appropriate services will be suggested ort recommended.
Solution Focused Therapy
Sometimes, life is overwhelming and even the smallest tasks can seem daunting. In such circumstances, you may find it difficult to turn your mind away from the problems of the past to focus on the present and future. If this is you, DR. SHERRI BRUCE CABRERA PSYCHOLOGIST will use solution-focused therapy to guide you through future-oriented questions and small, do-able goals that lead to behavioural changes and measurable, positive outcomes.
EMDR Therapy
If you have experienced a disturbing or traumatic event, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can help. It utilizes external stimuli to address past memories, present triggers and anxiety about future experiences. This method has proven to be effective for processing emotions, reformulating negative beliefs and reducing physiological arousal by targeting thinking and reprocessing the thoughts to more adaptive responses.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
DR. SHERRI BRUCE CABRERA PSYCHOLOGIST uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to address the thought processes and behaviours that impact how you feel emotionally, mentally and physically. Exploring the underlying thoughts, beliefs and values that influence your perceptions is a powerful way to set new pattern and achieve a healthier mindset and wellbeing.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
The Gottman Method was developed by Dr. John Gottman and his wife Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman in the 1980s. It is an evidence-based form of couple’s therapy that strives to assist couples in achieving a deeper sense of understanding, awareness, empathy, and connectedness within their relationships that ultimately leads to heightened intimacy and interpersonal growth. By combining therapeutic interventions with couple’s exercises, this type of therapy helps couples identify and address the natural defenses that hinder effective communication and bonding.
Goals and Principles of the Gottman Method
The principle goals of the Gottman Method Couples Therapy are to disarm conflicting verbal communication, increase intimacy, respect, and affection, remove barriers that create a feeling of stagnancy in conflicting situations, and create a heightened sense of empathy and understanding within the context of the relationship.