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We use evidence-based practice to guide our treatment. This approach integrates the best available research evidence with clinical expertise and client values.
Anxiety
Anxiety is the body’s physical response to a perceived threat. It can cause a pounding heart, rapid breathing, butterflies in the stomach, and a burst of energy and mental responses such as excessive fears, worries, or obsessive thinking. Everyone experiences anxiety but symptoms can vary. Anxiety often develops in relation to everyday concerns such as your health, loss, injury, shame, aggression, or guilt.
Relationships
While the need for human connection appears to be innate, the ability to form healthy, loving relationships is learned. Some evidence suggests that the ability to form a stable relationship starts to form in infancy, in a child’s earliest experiences with a caregiver who reliably meets the infant’s need for food, care, warmth, protection, stimulation and social contact. These relationships are not destiny but the theory states that establishes deeply ingrained patterns of relating to others. Relationships dynamics discussed in therapy could be:
- Couples counselling
- Relationship issues
- Separation / divorce
- Family issues
- Parenting difficulties
- Improving
Mood Disorders
Mood disorders are conditions that disturb our mood to the point where it becomes difficult to function in relationship or at work. People’s lived experience with mood disorders varies greatly. Mood disorders can make a person withdraw from social contact or hide their real feelings from people close to them. These conditions are can be understood in therapy:
- Depression
- Bipolar Disorder
- Anger management
- Sleep difficulties
Self-esteem and Body image
Body image is both the mental picture you have of your own body and how you see yourself when you look in the mirror. Body dissatisfaction occurs when you have persistent negative thoughts and feelings about your body. It is an internal emotional and cognitive process and is influenced by external factors such as pressures to meet a certain appearance ideal. Body dissatisfaction can drive people to engage in unhealthy weight-control behaviours, particularly disordered eating. This places them at heightened risk for developing an eating disorder.
Self esteem dictates how you value and respect yourself as a person which can impact on every aspect of life and contribute to happiness and wellbeing.
In the therapy setting we discuss:
- Eating disorders
- Body image and appearance-related concerns
- Weight loss goals
Life Stressors
When one evaluates environmental demand as beyond his/her ability to cope successfully, he may feel stressed. This may include elements of unpredictability, uncontrollability, and feeling overloaded. Life stressors will diminish when people learn how to manage adjustments to changes in life, both good and bad. Life stressors may appear in situations like:
- Family major events
- Workplace stress and burnout
- Bullying
Grief and Loss
Grief is a natural response to loss. It’s the emotional suffering you feel when something or someone you love is taken away. The more major the loss the more intense the grief seems to be.
Grief can be expressed in many ways and it can affect every part of your life such your emotions, thoughts and behaviours, beliefs, physical health, your sense of self and identity and your relationship with others. Grief can leave you feeling sad, angry, anxious, shocked, regretful, relieved, overwhelmed, isolated, irritable or numb.
Trauma
Trauma could be defined as a physical injury, a wound, a hurt, a defeat, or/and an unpleasant experience that causes abnormal stress.
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. defines trauma as “not the story of something that happened back then, but the current imprint of that pain, horror, and fear living inside.” Such events may leave us stuck in a state of helplessness and terror, and it results in a change in how we see danger.
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