
Mental Health Treatment Services
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Coping with Trauma and a Painful Past
Reduce intensity of flashbacks, memories, and emotions. Stop living in the past and get more out of the present. Renew joy for life and enhance your relationship with yourself.
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Companionship During Grief and Loss
Who are you now, after this loss? Work through devastating emotions so you can hold onto your loved ones with more love than pain. Pet loss and ambiguous loss often need support to work through as well. 10% of individuals will develop Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder following a major loss that will require specific interventions I have learned from the Centre for Prolonged Grief.
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Interventions for Low Mood and Overthinking
Reduce “vulnerability factors” that deprive you of energy or zest for living. We will identify what contributes to your low mood and reduce it’s impact on your quality of life.
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Interventions for Worry and Anxiety
Together we will break the cycle that is worsening your anxiety over time and help you reclaim your sense of safety and control.
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Interpersonal Support
Let’s resolve people pleasing behaviour, putting yourself last, difficulty asserting your needs from others, wanting closeness but pushing others away at the same time, difficulty sharing emotions or in maintaining relationships.
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Recovering from Mania Episodes
Learn how to reset your biological clock to restore sleep, energy, and your daily routine. Regain control over impulsivity, learn how to include family in monitoring and intervention.
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Improving Sleep
Using a variety of techniques to quiet the mind and improve sleep efficiency that will benefit all other areas of living. Reduce the intensity and frequency of nightmares.
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Reducing Impulsive Behaviours
Self harm, suicidal behaviours, substance use, and other unwanted or unsafe habits require intensive and evidence based interventions.
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Couples Interventions
Enhance friendship, restore sexual passion and learn to work through ongoing disagreements using tried and true methods studied in the Gottman Lab over four decades. Understand and correct the driving factors behind affair behaviour with Dr. Tammy Nelson’s research based interventions. Create new monogamy agreements moving forward in your partnership.
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Boost Happiness and Self Worth
Learn how to boost the percentage of your mood that can be influenced by our daily actions.
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Hair Pulling, Skin Picking, Nail Biting
Overcome body focused repetitive behaviours now recognized as Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders that affect 1-6% of the population with the Comprehensive Behavioural Model.
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Coping with Chronic Pain
Learn ACT methods, cbt, and somatic methods that can turn the volume down on pain and improve quality of life. Brainspotting and EMDR can assist with pain reduction.
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Improve Eating Habits
What has food helped you cope with? Learn how to respond to cravings so you can reengage in values guided choices more consistently.