STRESS

As we move through the human experience, we develop meaning, habits, tendencies, beliefs, and we respond from those places.  Therapy helps unpack the way we organize our experience around current situations and life experiences - positive or negative stressors.  Often, this unpacking tracks back to earlier times - places in which or experiences through which we took in meaning and developed responses.  We can explore the way a person sees, feels, senses, moves, and considers a current situation - this processing can provide clarity, flexibility, a greater sense of self-awareness.

REPRODUCTIVE MENTAL HEALTH

Reproductive Psychological Health and Wellness is a very unique area of mental health care and refers to the psychological well-being related to reproductive processes and issues and challenges: Fertility and Conception Concerns; Perinatal (antenatal and/or postpartum) Anxiety/Depression (PMADs); Parenting; Birth Trauma; Perinatal Loss; Pregnancy After Loss; Termination; Termination for Medical Reasons; and other Reproductive Related Concerns. Clients benefit from a non-judgmental, contained space in which to share the complex emotional, physiological, cognitive, social, and or spiritual experiences associated with reproductive challenges.

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ANXIETY

Everyone experiences varying levels of anxiety at some point - anxiety over life transitions, public speaking, new experiences, shifts in beliefs or meaning, being in a situation with too much or too little stimuli.  The experience of anxiety may bring difficulties with the mind - thoughts and perception, and distress in the body, from mild to severe.  We often develop strategies to deal with our presentation and organization of anxiety.  Sometimes these strategies help, until they don't.  And, sometimes, these strategies unknowingly reinforce anxious behaviour or create more anxious feelings.

CARE-PARTNERS OF A PLwD

Caregiving for a Person Living with Dementia and Dementia-related Illness can be a rewarding and taxing role and responsibility.  The caregiving role comes with the complexity of ambiguous loss; navigating support; learning about illness, expectations, strategies, and developing skills for care; and, often, working through family dynamics and or confronting unresolved wounds.  All this made more complicated by the Care Partner's existing responsibilities, e.g. children (sandwich generation), partnerships, career and goals, and other needs, e.g. health, self-care.  Clients benefit from having a safe and contained space to share difficult thoughts and unravelling distressing emotions, including grief and guilt.

TRAUMA

During moments when we are overwhelmed, our ability to integrate what is happening is diminished.  Trauma may be the result of stressors which threaten your sense of security, sense of self, and self-agency and the stress of which exceeding your ability to cope, make sense of, and move forward from that experience.  At the core of trauma are often feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and a continued sense of threat, risk, insecurity, or danger.  This may lead to unhelpful emotional, perceptive, cognitive, behavioural, interpersonal, and physiologic functioning which is persistent and causes distress in an individual’s life.  Trauma may generalize and show up in ways the sufferer does not expect, using SP for processing identifies trauma symptoms, expressions, reactions and responses, parts of self related to the trauma.