Depression clinic

Comprehensive health assessments include the patient’s history, a physical examination, and vital signs. This is used frequently during regular health visits and preventative care situations. Focused health assessments are more detailed assessments that relate to a current medical condition or patient complaint.

Detoxification or detox is when a person removes all traces of drugs and alcohol from their body, ensuring that they are physically stable to seek addiction therapy. Our medical team will be supporting the client during this process.

Treatment is focused on how thoughts and beliefs influence your actions and moods. It often focuses on clients’ current problems and how to solve them. The long-term goal is to build thinking and behavioural patterns that help the client to achieve a better quality of life.

Psychodynamic therapy focuses on unconscious processes as they are manifested in the client’s present behaviour. The goals of psychodynamic therapy are client self-awareness and understanding of the influence of the past on present behaviour. A psychodynamic approach enables the client to examine unresolved conflicts and symptoms that arise from past dysfunctional relationships and manifest themselves in the need and desire to abuse substances.

 Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is an action-oriented approach to psychotherapy that stems from traditional behaviour therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy. Clients learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with their inner emotions and, instead, accept that these deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations that should not prevent them from moving forward in their lives. With this understanding, clients begin to accept their hardships and commit to making necessary changes in their behaviour, regardless of what is going on in their lives and how they feel about it.

This approach is designed to meet the formidable challenges of challenging difficulties within addiction. The method combines CBT and explores self-defeating patterns. This method will also help the individual to address challenges around co-dependency.

Anger management  is a method based on CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy). This involves finding new ways to handle challenging situations. Clients will be supported to get a better understanding of how thoughts, feelings and behaviours work together and to be able to divert from an impulsive behaviour to a more controlled and productive outcome. Clients are supported in the process of challenging thoughts and trying new behaviours. The process enables the individual to understand that when one can control impulses, one is able to avoid conflicts improving relationships with himself and others.

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a counselling approach. It’s a directive, client-centred counselling method that is used to elicit behavioural changes, by helping the client explore and resolve ambivalence. This method is focused and goal- directed.

Coaching is a professional relationship between the coach and client person, clients get help to achieve personal or professional goals in an effective way.

 In coaching, we assume that everyone is an expert in their own life and has the best answers within themselves. We also assume that everyone has the power required to change what they want. In coaching, we focus on solutions and opportunities, and we highlight every client’s unique potential.

 Coaching is an effective tool that will help clients to understand; thinking, emotions and behaviour.

A therapy form with focus on social skills, and helps the client to go in depth to understand their own behavioural and how the client can change unwanted behaviours. The client gets help to identify and train on both easier and advanced skills.

12-step group and individual meetings.  Clients are encouraged to engage in socialising with other peers in recovery. 12-step recovery and gaining the tools that will help to maintain a sober life.

Psychoeducation teaches clients about their illness and how they’ll receive treatment. Psychoeducation also includes education for family, and friends. Coping strategies, problem-solving skills and how to recognize the signs of relapse is the primary focus. Family psychoeducation can often help ease tensions in the home and benefits the clients recovery.

Relapse Prevention is a skills-based, cognitive-behavioural approach that requires patients and their mental health counsellors to identify situations that puts the person at greater risk for relapse.

Group therapy can help address feelings of isolation and help people gain insight into their mental health condition. All therapy forms of individual treatment list is also used in group therapy.

TRE is an innovative series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma. The exercises safely activate a natural reflex mechanism of shaking or vibrating that releases muscular tension, calming down the nervous system. When this muscular shaking/vibrating mechanism is activated in a safe and controlled environment, the body is encouraged to return to a state of balance.

This is a deeply relaxing and effective treatment method for managing pain, stress, anxiety, physical and mental tensions. Reiki works with the body’s natural healing processes and replenishes the energy supply. Reiki is a form of healing and is a holistic treatment method, which assumes that the body and psyche are one. That is why the whole body is treated.

Reiki gives you a deep sense of relaxation and can improve your sleep, Reiki can help you release stress and tension and dissolve energy blockages. Reiki healing is emotionally soothing and balances the body’s energies and chakras.

Reiki releases emotions so that they come to the surface and dissolve. 

Reiki strengthens the immune system and the body’s natural ability to heal and cleanses the body of toxins.

Reiki can also relieve pain and discomfort caused by disturbances in bodily functions. It also replenishes the energy supply and increases and strengthens a positive energy flow.

Hypnosis is a method that changes the state of awareness and gives an increased relaxation, which benefits focus and concentration. It also is called Hypnosis is done with the guidance of a health care provider using verbal repetition and mental images. During hypnosis, most people feel calm and relaxed. Hypnosis can help the individual with behavioural changes and helps the individual to cope with anxiety or pain.

Art therapy is a tool to help clients interpret, express, and resolve their emotions and thoughts. Clients work with an art-therapist to explore their emotions, understand conflicts or feelings that are causing them distress, and use art to help them find resolutions to those issues.

Social and therapeutic horticulture is the process of using plants and gardens to improve physical and mental health, as well as communication and thinking skills

Meditation therapy is a method of relaxation and consciousness expansion by focusing on a mantra or a keyword, sound, or image while eliminating outside stimuli from one’s awareness. There are many types of meditation. Examples include mindfulness, body scan, loving-kindness, walking, Zen, mantra, and transcendental meditations. There is a meditation approach for everyone.

Yoga is a body and mind practice that can build strength and flexibility. It may also help to manage pain and reduce stress. Various styles of yoga combine physical postures, breathing techniques, and meditation. We offer general yoga practice, yin-yoga, kundalini-yoga and laughter-yoga.

We believe in the importance of training on having fun in recovery and in your healing process, and to find coping strategies to deal with emotions such as; boringness and loneliness, which are normal emotions during recovery. Fun in recovery helps the client to find new ways to enjoy a healthy life.