What is Identity-Level Therapy?

🧠 Introduction:

Identity-Level Therapy is a structured approach designed to explore and revise the deeper emotional and behavioural patterns that shape how people see themselves—and how they respond to the world around them.

At ShiftGrit Psychology & Counselling, this process is used to help clients go beyond insight alone. Rather than simply managing symptoms or surface behaviours, our therapy model focuses on changing the internal associations that drive those patterns. This allows for more integrated, sustainable outcomes across multiple areas of life.

This content is provided for educational purposes only and does not constitute a clinical diagnosis or treatment recommendation.

🔍 What Makes Identity-Level Therapy Different?

Most therapeutic models focus on insight, skill-building, or symptom management. While these approaches are often helpful, they may not address the subconscious patterns that keep people repeating the same emotional responses and behaviours—despite their best efforts.

Identity-Level Therapy focuses on:

• Pattern Mapping: Understanding how specific thoughts, feelings, and behaviours form into automatic loops

• Subconscious Safety Reconditioning: Helping the nervous system and emotional memory adopt new, safer responses

• Whole-Person Integration: Creating internal consistency between beliefs, emotions, and actions
  
  

It’s less about managing symptoms and more about changing the internal rules driving them.

ShiftGrit Psychology & Counselling
📍 Address: 815 17 Ave SW, Suite #210, Calgary, AB, T2T 0A1
📞 Phone: (587) 352-6463
📧 Email: mountroyal@shiftgrit.shop