Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a structured form of talk therapy that can help people with a wide range of issues. There are many forms of empirically-validated psychotherapy that exist to help with the following issues:
Depression
Anxiety
Substance use
Personality Disorders
Trauma, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Eating Disorders
Somatic and medically unexplained symptoms
Support with serious mental disorders such as psychosis or bipolar disorder
Issues such as issues of attachment
Relationship problems
Grief
Terminal illness
Finding purpose in one’s life
Anger management
Reducing criminal or deviant sexual behaviors
Behaviors that interfere with managing acute or chronic health conditions, including pain
Why do we suffer?
This may seem like a long list of issues, and in fact, it is. Our experience as people varies widely. The development of our relational patterns with others, and subsequently ourselves, cause different forms of psychopathology to develop in our lives. We often do not see our problems developing, but may see the portion of consequences of them in time.
Where do I start?
Psychotherapy starts with booking an assessment session. The initial assessment session is either two hours, or three hours (for trial therapy with Marcel), with the last twenty minutes for charting. Subsequent sessions are one hour, with the last ten minutes used for charting. These sessions will help better understand the purpose of coming to psychotherapy.
We provide individual psychotherapy for adolescents and adults in-person and online.
We will ask if patients are comfortable with having their sessions recorded, as we both work to review our sessions and seek out supervision to help improve our psychotherapy skills.
We work with Canadian Armed Forces, Veterans Affairs Canada, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police members
Couples and family counselling may be available in the future.