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WELCOME
Your journey begins here . . .
Beginning therapy means different things to different people, but it is often an action of courage, hope, selfcare, and self-determination. You might or might not have been to a therapist before. If this is your first experience with therapy, you might feel a bit nervous or apprehensive. That’s normal! Therapy is a process that allows you the freedom and privacy to discuss issues that are often painful or difficult to discuss with family and/or friends. We believe that in the process of our work together, you can begin to feel more at home within yourself and within your relationships.
ANXIETY
Whether you’re suffering from panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, unrelenting worries, or an incapacitating phobia, it’s important to know that you don’t have to live with anxiety and fear. Treatment can help, and for many anxiety problems, therapy is often the most effective option. That’s because anxiety therapy treats more than just the symptoms of the problem. Therapy can help you uncover the underlying causes of your worries and fears, learn how to relax, look at situations in new, less frightening ways, and develop better coping and problem-solving skills. Therapy gives you the tools to overcome anxiety and teaches you how to use them.
DEPRESSION
Most people go through periods of feeling down, but when you're depressed you feel persistently sad for weeks or months, rather than just a few days.
Some people think depression is trivial and not a genuine health condition. They're wrong – it is a real illness with real symptoms. Depression is not a sign of weakness or something you can "snap out of" by "pulling yourself together".
The good news is that with the right treatment and support, most people with depression can make a full recovery.
RELATIONSHIP
Relationship counselling is usually a short-term therapy that may take only a few sessions to work out problems in the relationship. Typically, our therapist will ask questions about the couple's roles, patterns, rules, goals, and beliefs. Therapy often begins as the couple analyses the good and bad aspects of the relationship. Our therapist then works with the couple to help them understand that, in most cases, both partners are contributing to problems in the relationship. When this is understood, the two can then learn to change how they interact with each other to solve problems. The partners may be encouraged to draw up a contract in which each partner describes the behaviour he or she will be trying to maintain.
Marriage is not a requirement for two people to get help from a therapist. Anyone person wishing to improve his or her relationships can get help with behavioural problems, relationship issues, or with mental or emotional disorders. Our therapists also offer treatment for couples before they get married to help them understand potential problem areas. Our third type of therapy involves post marital therapy, in which divorcing couples who share children seek help in working out their differences. Couples in the midst of a divorce find that marriage therapy during separation can help them find a common ground as they negotiate interpersonal issues and child custody.
ADDICTION
Addiction is a chronic condition that can affect almost every aspect of a person’s life, including their relationships with friends and loved ones. Addiction therapy is one treatment option a person may wish to try.
People of all ages, income and education levels, races, and religious backgrounds can develop a substance use disorder, or addiction.
People with a substance use disorder keep seeking what brought them relief, even though it may now be damaging their physical and emotional health, ability to think, work, education, relationships, and more.
In order for it to be effective, addiction therapy has to be as broad spectrum as the disorder itself. Our therapists design it to meet the individual’s specific needs.
CHILD & ADOLESCENT
When a child is suffering from mental, social or emotional, or psychological distress and/or trauma, it can be hard to cope with, especially when you feel like nothing is working or there’s nothing you can do to remedy the situation. That is where a child therapist can be extremely beneficial.
Our therapists can identify the underlying issues that are affecting your child’s overall health and well-being, so he/she can quickly receive the treatment he/she needs to feel better. The truth is many children are unable to fully process the
complexities that accompany the emotional and/or psychological issues they are experiencing, so therapy may be just what your child needs to work towards mental wholeness.
PERSONAL GROWTH & WELLBEING
Wellbeing therapy is defined as a short-term psychotherapeutic technique based on the six dimensions of psychological wellbeing. Our therapists use cognitive restructuring, assertiveness training, problem solving, and scheduled assignments to enhance levels of psychological wellbeing across the six dimensions proposed in Ryff’s model, to bring clients from an impaired functioning to optimal (Fava & Ruini, 2003). It is worth noting that optimal functioning is considered as balanced wellbeing, and how this is defined will vary depending on each person’s perspective, individual traits, social context, and cultural background.
Environmental mastery
Personal growth
Purpose in life
Autonomy
Self-acceptance
Positive relationships
Applying the six dimensions in therapy
the role of our therapists are to assist our client in transitioning from impaired or excessive levels on each dimension of wellbeing to a more balanced functioning. Growth and improvements may come from discovering untested assumptions or from consistent work on specific areas identified jointly with the client.
