When you feel deeply heard and accepted just as you are, in a space that allows you to come as you are – it can be incredibly healing and empowering.
Our experienced therapists can resource you with tools for regulating your emotions, coping with challenging situations, working through difficult thoughts, adopting healthier habits and developing more connected relationships.
Emotional Wellbeing
Therapy is an ideal place to improve your mental and emotional health.
We collaborate with our clients to help you find relief from symptoms which may be impacting your daily life and relationships.
We offer support for the following challenges, which often bring people to therapy:
• Anger
• Anxiety: including Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Social Anxiety, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
• Depression
• Bipolar Disorder
• Difficult symptoms and challenges that can arise from Borderline Personality Disorder
• Preventing or recovering from burnout
• Grief
• Stress
• Managing conflict
• Healing experiences of rejection or abandonment
Whether you’re seeking to understand, process, or regulate your emotions, our compassionate therapists draw from a variety of techniques to help you, every step of the way.
THERAPY FOR DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY IN OTTAWA • GRIEF COUNSELLING OTTAWA
You are not a burden. We will hold space for your thoughts, feelings, and your story. Your problems aren’t too small or too big. You don’t have to carry them alone, allow us to help.
Self Development
Investing in your growth and personal development is the best investment you can make!
Many people choose therapy to help reach their goals, create meaningful change, and enhance general wellness.
We can help you with self-understanding and self-expression. We’re happy to focus on what’s most important to you, whether that’s processing past experiences, staying present-focused or helping you grow.
Our therapists build authentic relationships with our clients based on trust and respect.
We provide a constructive (and at times creative) space for you to develop insights and tools for working on any of the following:
• Embracing positive body image, acceptance and body-positivity
• Building self esteem or confidence
• Developing an internal sense of worthiness and self-validation
• Nurturing self-compassion and acceptance
• Assertive communication
• Expressing your authentic self
• Overcoming people-pleasing
• Setting and holding healthy boundaries
• Goal-setting, motivation, and accountability
• Creating and maintaining healthy habits
• Practicing self-care
• Overcoming procrastination
• Healing perfectionism
• Athletic mindset work and sports psychology
• Forgiveness of self or others
• Letting go and moving forward
• Navigating life transitions and change
• Developing mindfulness
• Learning to manage stress, practice relaxation techniques
• Creating healthy relationships
Let us help you on your journey, whether you’re taking your first step, or your next step.
Healing from Trauma
Healing is possible!
Trauma is the lasting emotional, mental and physical response that can result from experiencing deeply distressing events. There are a wide range of common responses to traumatic events.
If you have been suffering with the impact of trauma, there is hope. We will gently and constructively walk alongside you on your path to recovery and resilience.
Using evidence-based techniques, our specialized therapists are trained and qualified to assist you in overcoming:
• Abuse (physical, emotional, psychological, financial, sexual, spiritual)
• Attachment trauma (wounds from challenging relationships, unmet needs, neglect, rejection or abandonment)
• Life-altering events, accidents, natural disasters, or crime
• Traumatic grief and loss
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Intergenerational Trauma
• Discrimination and/or oppression (racial, religious, cultural, or gender-based)
We also offer Critical Incident Debriefing Services for Workplaces that have experienced critical (traumatic) events.
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All of our therapists are trauma-informed. We draw from effective, evidence-based therapies to support each client, and we tailor our approach to your individual needs and goals.
Substance Use & Addiction
ADDICTION COUNSELLING OTTAWA: individual, couples and family therapy for addiction
We will meet you where you’re at; using a non-judgmental harm-reduction approach in assisting clients at any stage readiness or change.
Our Substance Use and Addiction therapists have extensive clinical experience and training in this field. We take a trauma-informed, client centered approach, ensuring to offer care that helps clients feel respected, dignified and treated with unconditional positive regard.
We work collaboratively with our clients to ensure your treatment plan is right for you!
We know that substance use and addiction is layered – change isn’t a simple matter of “willpower” or “discipline”. We recognize that addiction may be your current coping mechanism, whether that’s to find relief, stimulation, or escape.
Maybe you’ve been wondering if you’re dependent on a particular substance or habit, leaning on one or two “vices” to cope or take the edge off. Maybe your loved ones have voiced their concerns and you’re having difficulty making changes, or maybe you’ve been battling addiction for years, or are on the verge of losing something important to you.
We’re here for you.
We offer compassionate, specialized services for addiction, including but not limited to:
• Therapy for substance use: alcohol, mis-used prescription medication, illicit substances, marijuana, nicotine products
• Therapy for addictive habits: gambling addiction, internet addiction, gaming addiction
• Therapy for loved-ones: families, partners or care-givers
Our therapists use evidence-based therapies for substance use and addiction, which may include:
• Motivational Interviewing (MI)
• Rational-Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT)
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Trauma-therapies: EMDR, ITATM, IFS, Cognitive Processing Therapy
We also offer:
• Addiction-related screening and assessments, including the GAIN-Q3 and OCAN (which are required for entry to residential treatment programs)
• Urine screening and reports to third parties (if requested by clients)
• Referrals to community-based supports and/or residential treatment centers (if requested by clients)
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If you are wrestling with shame or stigma, know that you are truly not alone in your experience. You’ve taken an important step in researching your options. We would be honoured to support you in your journey.
Chronic Pain or Illness
We can help you find relief
If you experience pain or illness, therapy may have been recommended to you. This does not mean that your condition or symptoms are “all in your head”.
We know what you’re experiencing is real, and hard.
We have training and experience in helping clients manage, reduce, and find relief from chronic pain, or cope with chronic illness, through various therapeutic processes and techniques.
We hold space for you to share openly and honestly about your experiences and the impact of your illness on your life. Living with pain or chronic illness can feel frustrating or devastating, you may feel alone, grieve the way life used to be, or worry about the future.
We can help.
In our practice, we commonly support individuals who have:
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome or other digestive issues
• Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes
• Fibromyalgia
• Arthritis
• Chronic pain, or pain post-injury or accident
• Women’s health concerns
THERAPY ISN’T A ONE SIZE FITS ALL APPROACH.
We’re dedicated to finding the right-fit therapist and therapeutic approach for you!
Our trauma-informed therapists draw from a variety of therapeutic modalities, often taking an integrative (eclectic) approach. We individualize the process for each client, and value our client’s feedback to create effective processes and strategies for you.
We utilize therapies which are shown to help clients with anxiety, depression, grief, and more. Some of these therapeutic approaches include:
CBT, DBT, Mindfulness, Solution-Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Parts Work, as well as Art Therapy
LGBTQ-AFFIRMING THERAPY IN OTTAWA
We provide a safe, inclusive and affirming space, where everyone can feel welcome, seen, heard, and accepted.
