Mental Health Counselling
We are all human and feel deeply. Sometimes we are faced with difficult situations. It is healthy to talk with a professional to help you through those times.
Rates:
Video Conferencing and Telephone Sessions - $200 per 50 minute session
In-Person Session - $200 per 50 minute session
Anxiety
What Is Anxiety?
As humans we all want to live happy fruitful lives that are free of tension, stress, and worry. When your body is in a persistent state of tension, stress and worry it effects hormones that are released in the brain, the nervous system, the circulatory system, and the digestive system. Being in an anxious state is a healthy response to danger, but when it is part of daily living, it is not necessary. Anxiety is a false alarm that happens as a response to stress. It can occur with unproductive repetitive thoughts, feeling emotionally overwhelmed and, a perceived physical state of danger. Counselling can help you sort through the causes and symptoms of anxiety.
What Can Anxiety Feel Like?
- Worrying thoughts of “what if” can consume moments of happiness as you feel worried something bad will happen.
- You think in worst case scenario most of the time, which can prevent you from living your life.
- Thoughts of “I should be” at a certain stage in your life, have already accomplished certain things, and thinking negatively about yourself, your achievements, and your goals.
- Distorted thinking can lead to self isolation and avoiding people, even the people that mean the most to you.
- You have difficulty relaxing because you have racing thoughts that make you feel emotionally overwhelmed. These thoughts keep you up at night, prevent you from concentrating or distract you.
- When you think of others, you compare yourself and worry that they think about you
- Feeling the need to stay busy physically or mentally to distract yourself so that you do not think or feel about past or future events.
How I Can Help With Anxiety
We can work together to learn about how your body reacts to anxiety. Learning to identify how stress, tension and worry manifests in your body is important to identifying pre states of anxiety. When we learn to identify the pre states of anxiety we can then learn to control the anxiety itself. Thoughts, feelings, and actions are all interconnected. We can work together to identify where the negative thoughts are, when they happen, and how they make you feel so that you can take charge over your anxiety and master it.
Benefits Of Anxiety Counselling
Proceeding with counselling for anxiety can be a liberating experience. It is a fantastic journey that will help you get to know yourself better. You will learn to identify how you react to situations, thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations so that you can begin to master self control.
Depression
What Is Depression?
Depression is a medical condition that causes persistent states of sadness and or loss of interest in previously enjoyed activities. Depression ranges form mild to severe and if not treated it can lead to a variety of emotional struggles and physical problems. The symptoms of depression can negatively impact daily life inhibiting ability to fulfill social obligations such as work or school. Depression can happen at any age and may not be related to any one event. There are many reasons why a person may be depressed, some of which may relate to a specific incident, social problems, biological/physical changes, or past negative events or trauma, and negative environmental influences.
What Can Depression Feel Like?
- Feeling sad, fragile, depressed, hurt, powerless or empty.
- A dark cloud negatively impacting moments that would normally be positive for you.
- Experiencing changes in appetite – weight gain or loss
- Disrupted sleep schedule such as sleeping too much or being unable to sleep.
- Have a difficult time thinking, concentrating, or making decisions.
- Have thoughts of self harm, death, suicide.
If you are currently experiencing immediate thoughts of suicide,
please call 9-1-1 or your local health care professional.
How I Can Help With Depression
You don’t have to go through this alone. We are here to listen and understand your struggles. We can open conversations about what makes you feel depressed and identify your feelings and thoughts. We can do work around your depressed states and what happens before and after them. We can share a space that allows you to feel however you want. It is okay to feel sadness, there is no pressure at The Healing Space to put on a happy face and pretend. Let’s do this together!
Benefits Of Depression Counselling
There is a life outside of your depression waiting for you. You will learn tools to work through negative thinking and tools for days that you don’t want to get out of bed and participate in life. Having those tools in your tool belt will help you navigate future depressive episodes before they become severe. You will learn that it is okay to feel like this and we will learn about feelings together (negative and positive) so that you can experience them in healthy ways.
Acute Mental Disorders
Acute mental disorders include bipolar, borderline personality disorder and schizophrenia. Living with any of these disorders can be challenging. We have years of experience working two psychiatric hospitals and have a vested interest in assuring that people with an acute mental illness get treated fairly, with dignity, and respect. Psychotic symptoms can be challenging, and the medications can be confusing. We offer for us to work together to help you maintain predictability in life, and work together to help you maintain your healthy baseline. We will take the time to hear your thoughts and work through distortions, and help you make goals for the future because the world is your oyster! Having an acute mental illness does not have to hold you back. Let’s work on this together, we got this!
