Treatments
Evidenced-Based Psychological Treatment Services
We focus on providing compassionate care in the form of psychotherapy and cognitive rehabilitation to help adjust to changes related to brain injury, chronic pain, and other medical conditions. Below are some of the things we can help with:
- Adjustment and coping with health conditions and lifestyle change (chronic pain, obesity, diabetes, cardiac problems)
- Anxiety (panic, trauma, OCD, fears & phobias, social unease)
- Depression
- Stressful Life Events (infertility, death of loved one, job loss, caregiving stress, health problems)
- Pain Management
- Perinatal anxiety & postpartum depression
- Stress Management
Our Neurorehabilitation services:
1. Education: Further education for both client and family about (a) the clients specific cognitive problems, (b) lifestyle factors that might affect their thinking, (c) basics on how the brain works, and (d) the effects of medication and other medical or psychiatric conditions on cognition
2. Implementation of compensatory strategies: Practical implementation of strategies to help compensate for cognitive difficulties (e.g. practical guidance of diary/calendar use, use of alarms and wrist-watch reminders on a mobile phone etc, other memory and home/school organizational techniques);
2. Cognitive remediation: Guidance on internet-based computer games (most free) that are designed to enhance thinking skills and other activities that improve cognition (can later be done at home).
3. Concussion management: Education, baseline and post-injury cognitive testing, liaison with physicians on return to play guidance, neuropsychological assessment of persistent symptoms (must be referred by a physician or neurologist).
Our Fees:
Each therapy session lasts approximately 50 minutes and costs $155/hr. Accepted payments include cash, cheques, credit cards or INTERAC e-transfer. We do not currently accept debit cards.