Virtual Therapy In Ontario, Canada In Person Therapy in Hamilton & London
Our team at Vital Minds Psychotherapy will make you feel comfortable talking about the innermost fears in your life. After all, we know how brave and deeply intimate it can be to step into therapy for the very first time.
We have experienced therapists who understand, hear, and walk with you every step of the way. Our evidence-based practices bring together experienced and compassionate therapists. We remain firmly committed to a safe space in which you experience total healing.
We believe at Vital Minds Psychotherapy in nurturing a person inside and out. This will positively impact the mind and body. We instill evidence-based therapeutic modalities with deep attention to nervous system regulation. This allows us to create a comprehensive path toward healing and growth for you.
We strive to put you in the center of our therapeutic approach. Our experienced therapists use many evidence-based models, including things like:
We use these approaches to create a treatment plan best suited for your needs and goals.
We believe each person’s story is unique. Because of this, we have diverse approaches to therapy that are tailored to each specific need and person.
Call us at Vital Minds Psychotherapy to book an in-person or online therapy as per your convenience.
Our practice blends traditional therapeutic methods and modern approaches like somatic psychotherapy and Internal Family Systems.
By focusing on formats like nervous system regulation, we help you build resilience from within. This physiological approach to healing syncs well with traditional psychotherapy. With this form of therapy, we can drive a deeper and more sustainable transformation. You will get the insights and resources needed to heal and grow into your fullest potential.
We are adept at facilitating all-round comfort, online or in-person when meeting with us. Our therapists are aware that vulnerabilities demand trust, and we strive to earn that through constant, professional, and compassionate care.
Our commitment to your well-being extends beyond our sessions. We give you practical tools and strategies you can apply in daily life. These are bound to make a positive impact in short-term support through a hard time or for a longer journey of self-discovery.
Respect, understanding, and expertise await you when you opt for Vital Minds Psychotherapy.
Specialists in many modalities like Somatic Psychotherapy and CBT. This ensures that we can provide you with the specific match of either therapist and treatment approach to serve your needs best.
Through the understanding and growth we enable, you can experience lasting changes after you engage Vital Minds.
Our therapists are committed to ongoing professional development and guarantee that you will have the best current and most effective therapeutic techniques. Healing is different for every individual at their own pace, we understand this and respect the time needed.
We offer online therapy across Ontario, Canada. Our clinic at Hamilton also ensures face-to-face sessions. Our inclusive practice welcomes individuals of all backgrounds, beliefs, and experiences.
Connect with our team at Vital Minds Psychotherapy. We believe in providing access to quality mental health care. With a bit of our assistance, you will feel respected and understood.
FAQ
As humans, feeling anxious is normal from time to time. Some signs that one may need to seek therapy for anxiety include symptoms of feeling overwhelmed, irritability, restlessness, struggle to maintain or build relationships, heart palpitations, and fatigue. If you notice that any one of these signs is getting in the way of your basic lifestyle, it is important to reach out and talk to a professional for help and guidance.
Burnout, chronic stress, and emotional exhaustion can come in different forms and to all individuals undergoing work-related, personal, social, physical, or mental stress. Burnout is often associated with compassion fatigue and moral stress. Oftentimes, burnout occurs when work stress is combined with additional stressors that exceed the ability to cope, further resulting in mental and physical distress. The results of poor coping with burnout and chronic stress can lead to worsened symptoms as well as addiction, depression, and more. Stress and burnout have become increasingly common around the world. Treatment for chronic stress and burnout involves multi-faceted approaches such as CBT strategies, lifestyle adjustments, mindfulness, emotion-regulation practices, and a strong support system. Making that first step to seek help and support is crucial to getting on the right path to further alleviate and address such factors and symptoms of stress and burnout.
CBT is an evidence-based psychological treatment that is proven to be effective in the treatment of a variety of problems including anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, substance use problems, mental illness and eating disorders.
CBT’s core principles include viewing psychological problems as a result of unhelpful thinking patterns and learned behavior. The cognitive aspect of treatment involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and restructuring thoughts into more adaptive thinking. The behavioral aspects include strategies to change behavior and improve coping skills.
Clients can expect to learn new skills that can be practiced in everyday life to help challenge and change their negative thinking and problematic behavior and emotions.
The CBT therapist can help the client explore and monitor their thoughts so they can learn how their thoughts drive their emotions and behavior. Clients learn to identify various types of distortions in thinking that contribute to depression and anxiety in order to replace negative thoughts with more constructive thoughts. Changing negative thoughts to more accurate and balanced thinking can help reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and improve mood and outlook on life.
CBT treatment for OCD involves a combination of cognitive restructuring with Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). This consists of providing psychoeducation to the client about communication problems between the front part of the brain and the deeper parts. In OCD, the brain provides false information and sends a “danger” signal, which elicits the obsession or compulsion as a protective response. The only way to change how the brain functions is to practice doing something different. By slowly introducing the person with OCD with the situations or objects that trigger their compulsions and obsessions and teaching the client to delay their response to the trigger, clients can gain a sense of control. Through the exposure, clients learn that the messages they are receiving that are contributing to the obsession and compulsion are incorrect. ERP can assist clients to better cope with their anxiety understanding that they are experiencing sensations which are not dangerous, which allows them to challenge the accuracy of their thoughts contributing to OCD. It is important to note that the treatment of OCD is paced in accordance with the client’s goals.