Psychotherapy, or talk therapy, is a way to help people manage and cope with their mental health conditions. Psychotherapy can help eliminate the symptoms that affect a person so that they are able to function better and can increase well-being and healing.
Below are a few examples of therapies used by our psychologists:
Behavioral therapy is an umbrella term for types of therapy that treat Behavioral health disorders. This form of therapy seeks to identify and help change potentially self-destructive or unhealthy behaviors. It functions on the idea that all behaviors are learned and that unhealthy behaviors can be changed. The focus of treatment is often on current problems and how to change them.
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a type of psychotherapy that involves a combination of cognitive therapy, meditation, and the cultivation of a present-oriented, non-judgmental attitude called "mindfulness. It promotes psychological flexibility that encourages healthy contact with thoughts, reconnection with the here and now, realization of personal values, and commitment to behavior change.
Group therapy is a form of psychotherapy that involves one or more therapists working with several people at the same time in a group setting. This type of therapy is widely available at a variety of locations including private therapeutic practices, hospitals, mental health clinics, and community centers.
Couples counselling is a form of psychotherapy used to treat relationship distress for both individuals and couples. The purpose of couple’s therapy is to restore a better level of functioning in couples. The reasons for distress can include poor communication skills, incompatibility, or a broad spectrum of psychological disorders. The focus of couple’s therapy is to identify the presence of dissatisfaction and distress in the relationship, and to devise and implement a treatment plan with objectives designed to improve or alleviate the presenting symptoms and restore the relationship to a better and healthier level of functioning. Couples therapy can assist persons who are having complaints of intimacy, sexual, and communication difficulties.
Family therapy is a type of psychotherapy that helps family members improve communication and resolve conflicts. It tends to view change in terms of the systems of interaction between family members. It emphasizes family relationships as an important factor in psychological health.
Solution-Focused Therapy is an approach to psychotherapy based on solution-building rather than problem-solving. Solution-focused brief therapy is conducted only for a limited time, however the technique is often incorporated into other long-term therapy types and effects can be long-lasting.
This approach focuses on changing problematic behaviours, feelings, and thoughts by discovering their unconscious meanings and motivations. Psychodynamic psychotherapy can be characterized by a close working partnership between the therapist and client. Clients learn about themselves by exploring their interactions in the therapeutic relationship.
It is a psychotherapeutic approach that integrates psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and interpersonal conceptual models and techniques. The objective of the therapist is to reinforce the patient's healthy and adaptive patterns of thoughts and behaviors in order to reduce the intra-psychic conflicts. In supportive therapy the therapist engages in a fully emotional, encouraging, and supportive relationship with the patient as a method of furthering healthy defense mechanisms, especially in the context of interpersonal relationships.