All treatment begins with an assessment. We ask about your symptoms, experiences, and personal history so that we can determine what kind of problems you may be having and how your life is being disrupted. After the assessment, you will begin therapy and forge a therapeutic alliance with someone you can be open and honest with. Your therapy will be a collaboration between you and your therapist.
Our specialty is Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Unlike other talk therapy treatments, CBT focuses on your "here and now" problems instead of focusing on the “root causes” of your distress or symptoms, which may have originated in the distant past. CBT uses a skills-oriented approach to problem solving that will help you find ways to improve your state of mind now and help you to develop techniques so you can avoid problems in the future.
- Anxiety
- Addiction
- Benzodiazepine Withdrawal
- Depression
- Eating Disorders
- Family Difficulties
- Fears/Phobias
- Grief/Bereavement
- Interpersonal difficulties
- Marital Counseling
- Pain Management
- Panic Disorder
- Post Traumatic Stress
- Self-esteem
- Sports Psychology
- Stress
- Life Transitions
We also have a Biofeedback lab onsite. Biofeedback involves measuring your bodily processes such as blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, galvanic skin response (sweating), and muscle tension with biofeedback machinery that will provide you with information about what your body is doing in real time. Once you’ve learned what your body is doing, you can also learn how to affect – “on demand” - what is happening to it during times of stress.
After a course of treatment that may last between six weeks and six months, you will have learned the skills to "do it yourself" and work out your own ways of tackling a problem.
