Individual Therapy

Anxiety can be a normal occurrence as we navigate life, but when anxiety becomes unmanageable and begins to interfere with everyday life, it may be time to seek help. The intense and often relentless physical, emotional, and cognitive symptoms of an anxiety disorder can be addressed and alleviated through evidence-based therapies. Anxiety Lies… But with therapeutic support, you can learn not to listen to it.

We often experience stress in life as a normal occurrence, but when that stress becomes “Chronic” and your body is reacting physically, mentally, and emotionally to the challenge of a continuous stress response, we find ourselves left overwhelmed and unable to cope. Symptoms of chronic stress and overwhelm are; difficulty concentrating, extreme irritability, fatigue, headaches, digestive problems, trouble sleeping, changes in appetite, loss of sexual desire, disorganized thoughts, and more. Stress and Overwhelm can be managed through proven techniques including CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) mindfulness, sleep, exercise, and more, relieving the mind and body of these adrenaline-inducing responses to stress through empathetic and structured therapy options that can bring back balance to your overall mental health.

We all experience trauma at some point in our lives. Some of us are more sensitized to these types of experiences and some events are so intense that we struggle to cope afterward. Trauma can bring about mental health issues including Anxiety, Depression, Dissociative Behaviours, and more. When our Trauma response has jeopardized our mental health and interferes with our daily life it becomes important to seek professional help. A clinical therapeutic plan specific to the experienced trauma can alleviate the uncomfortable symptoms of a trauma response.

You may not always think of Counselling for help in navigating your career path. But given that most of us spend a good part of our daily life working, it is important to have a safe space to explore those workplace stressors, relationships, goals, and career plans. Our workplaces can be complex and rewarding. Finding and building on strengths, learning to manage the day-to-day, and creating careers that fit us best can make all the difference as we build a favorable and healthy work-life balance.

Addiction, Financial, Perfectionism, Compulsion, and Reaction are just a few behavioural issues that can be worked through hand in hand with clients to change. Learned behaviours, coping behaviours, and stress-related avoidance behaviours are all responses to something that has overwhelmed us. Taking the time to learn and work through each individual's experience to help identify the “why” can guide us to navigating personalized treatment plans.

The death of a loved one is the most common association we have with grief. Grief in itself is a normal human experience that allows us to process what we have lost and all that goes with it. When we lose a person we also lose goals, dreams, plans, financial security, connection, identity, and more. Grief is a complex experience that at times can find us needing more than just family and friends to lean on. Grief therapy is an empathetic therapy that allows for a safe place to grieve and speak of the loss in a safe non-judgemental space. It also provides some very practical tools to assist with the process.

Grief is defined as mental or emotional suffering or distress caused by loss or regret. The loss does not have to be defined by death, but more so a loss that is greatly significant and causes an emotional suffering response. Grief can be the loss of a job, relationship, partner (divorce or separation), a way of life, health, and more. When we experience a significant loss we can also experience grief. Grief has a place in our life experience. Working with a counsellor in a safe space to assist in the experience of grief can be comforting and practical as you learn to live and accept the change in your life.

The complexity of being a woman in today's world can take its toll. Women have issues that are very individual to our sex and often are brushed by or overlooked by a society that doesn’t always value or allow for our natural responses to life. Learning to honour our experiences, normalize our emotions and needs and build a space for ourselves where we feel supported, secure, and empowered can bring about a sense of well-being in a world that doesn’t always leave us feeling any of that. Wellminded Counselling provides that safe space that honours the work that women do and the complex issues that we navigated throughout our lives. Examining belief systems, supporting our choices, and being empowered to enhance our self-care are all part of the therapeutic process around women's issues. Women’s issues include abuse, gaslighting, post-partum, miscarriages, infertility, coping with unrealistic societal ideals, career issues, raising children, mid-life evaluation, relationships with adult children, and more.