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Individual Therapy
Are you dealing with anxiety, depression, anger management issues or PTSD? If so, then you’ve come to the right place. We’ll work to help support you in your current problems and improve positive thinking and behaviour. Our goal is to help you “re-frame” your reactions and provide you with valuable tools to cope with life’s obstacles.
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Children & Adolescent Therapy
Like adults, children have unique mental health needs that need to be looked after.
At RD Psychotherapy, we have therapists who specialize in working with children, and their parents to better understand these needs. Our therapists are trained in working with neurodivergent needs, trauma, ADHD, Autism, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and others.
Family counselling is incorporated with your child’s therapy in creating a functional plan to help you move forward in a healthy way. Creating a safe space for your child to talk is an important part of their development and growth.
At RD Psychotherapy, we understand the unique and complex needs of the developing brain, and are committed to quality care for your children.
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Family Therapy
We all know families can be frustrating and wonderful all at the same time. For the moments when we don’t see eye to eye, family therapy can come into effect. Family Therapy sessions help families develop positive attitudes towards life’s most complex and challenging circumstances that occur within our household (and without).
In order to help provide greater support to all family members, Family Counselling sessions with more than four (4) family members requires two (2) therapists and will be held in conjunction with the family.
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Relationship & Couples Therapy
Couples counselling is a form of therapy where guidance and advice are focused on problematic issues within the relationships rather than the individual partner themselves. Couples counseling is short-term problem-oriented therapy which may include a variety of approaches to confront the areas of concern. Couples counseling is emotionally focused on improving relationship satisfaction and conflict resolution in a couple.
The goal of couples counseling is to gain insight into the relational dynamics creating the problem. Understand the roles of each partner in the dysfunctional interactions, and help change the way they perceive the relationship and each other. Effective communication skills and problem-solving techniques are provided to both partners.
Unfortunately, not all relationships can be saved, and couples therapy is necessary at times to help part ways amicably. Sometimes a significant amount of damage has occurred in the relationship where restorative treatment is no longer viable. When maladaptive relational patterns have already become embedded, the emotional bond of the couple is severely broken due to resentment from past conflict. Couples therapy can be useful in helping to settle these wounds and learning how to move on without each other.
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Premarital / Cohabiting Counseling
Premarital counseling or cohabiting counseling is a form of therapy to assist couples in preparing for long, healthy, marriages or moving in together. Premarital / cohabitation counseling is designed to help the couple consider and communicate their thoughts about various topics that often arise in a cohabiting space.
Premarital counseling is suggested for all couples before their wedding day or before moving in together. This type of counseling is not just for couples who are struggling, but for those who are in a good place and need techniques to keep a relationship stable. Premarital / pre-cohabiting counseling will deal with the Four Pillars that all relationships are based on; Friendship, Trust, Communication, and Sex. The goal is to guide the couple through these Four Pillars in order to establish proper coping skills when life challenges arise.
Premarital / pre-cohabiting counseling will also cover beliefs, values, finances, family of origin/background, creating your own family, roles within the relationship, and more. This type of counseling also works for those with a previous relationship with children, and are looking to blend the families together once married/living together.
Religious pre-marital counseling is also available. Please note this in the comment section when booking your session.
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Sex Therapy
Sex therapy is a form of psychotherapy designed to help individuals and couples address factors impacting sexual satisfaction. The goal of sex therapy is to help people move past physical and emotional challenges to have a satisfying relationship and pleasurable sex life. Sex therapy can also help those who are currently not in a relationship deal with any sexual issues or concerns they might have by building coping skills and building blocks.
The goal is with your therapist, to work on coping mechanisms to help improve your responses in the future for a healthier sex life. With each session, your therapist will continue to push you toward better management and acceptance of your concerns that may be leading to sexual dysfunction.
If your therapist suspects a medical dysfunction is the result of a physical sexual concern, they may refer you to a medical doctor. Your therapist and the doctor can consult about your signs and symptoms and work to help find any physical concerns that may be contributing to greater sexual problems.”
Sex therapy is not treatment for sex addiction. For sex addiction please book under general psychotherapy
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Dating Coach
A dating coach will help you identify patterns that are not in alignment with your relationship vision to guide you to where your prospects are more viable. A dating coach’s job is to work with your overall image in order to present the best version of you. Four main areas will be targeted in order to find your dating style and suit your dating needs.
- Mental Health
- Physical Image
- Personality/Character
- Preferences
While a dating coach cannot help anyone to fall in love with you, they can help guide you to identify love in your life. The goal of a dating coach is to teach you to be your authentic self. To help bring your “inner game” out so you can present yourself in a competent and confident holistic fashion.
* Please note that a dating coach appointment is not psychotherapy and therefore is not covered under your insurance plan. An Initial appointment is necessary in order to gather information on yourself and what you are looking for in a partner.
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Faith-Based Therapy
Faith-based therapy integrates evidence-based clinical theory into a therapeutic intervention that incorporates your spiritual beliefs. Faith-based therapy is not based on any particular religion or belief. Instead, it is how you see the world through your faith or the current struggles that might be confronting these beliefs.
Faith-based therapy, when used for individuals or couples counselling, can give you a better understanding of your current situation. It can help challenge your thinking when distorted or destructive emotions, thoughts, or behaviours begin harming who you know you should be.
Faith-based counselling is not meant to indoctrinate or changes beliefs and values. Rather, it is to help you align these beliefs and values with how you see the world, others, and yourself to improve your mental health, along with your relationships spiritually and socially. We are all a work in progress.
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LGBTQ2S+ Affirming Counselling
LGBTQ2S+ affirming counselling addresses the unique needs and experiences of LGBTQ2S+ identifying individuals from an intersectional lens. A safe space is provided to explore experiences and issues relating to coming out, self-love and acceptance, transitioning, questioning sexuality, questioning gender identity, internalized stigma, and gender non-conformity. LGBTQ2S+ are at higher risks of experiencing traumas, discrimination, and marginalization, in addition, to having higher rates of depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders. We provide mental health care using empirically supported treatment for queer and gender-diverse individuals to support them with their journeys toward healing.
We also provide LGBTQ2S+ affirming counselling integrated with faith-based counselling for individuals navigating their sexuality and/ or gender with their personal religious beliefs. We provide a safe space to help individuals process and honour these identities in a confidential environment free of judgment.
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NIHB Non-Insured Health Benefits
Are you Indigenous? Do you have a status card? If so, you are covered under Health Canada to receive up to 22 hours of psychotherapy if you are currently dealing with mental health and have a valid status card number.
We also service First Nations and Inuits residing in the Northwest Territories. A valid health card is required.
There is no need to suffer alone. Our practitioners are healthcare providers under this program. Call us to book your appointment.
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Executive Coaching
Whether it is a new entrepreneurial venture, promotion into a new position, or adjusting to unexpected changes and challenges, your answers involve integrative solutions.
From evidence-based assessments and one-on-one consulting to the facilitation of tailored workshops, our collaborative approaches respond to obstacles at the individual, team, and organizational levels.
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Holistic Pregnancy Program
Pre-Pregnancy, During Pregnancy, and Postpartum Care Program
Pre-Pregnancy: We address mental health concerns during family planning, from developing coping skills for new life changes, to working on dynamics between couples and their expected identity change into parenthood.
During Pregnancy: We aim to help new mothers through their pregnancy experience in allowing them to manage and understand their feelings and get prepared for the coming of the new baby through our “Bring Baby Home” program.
Post-Partum: We focus on navigating the postpartum journey that might involve depression, anxiety, rage, or self-identity. For new parents, we focus on identifying their roles of support in this journey and emphasize their relationship as a couple and parents.
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), Angela Saavedra, brings both professional skillsets as a therapist and experience as a mother to help support other mothers, their children, and entire families.
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IFHP Interim Federal Health Program
The Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) covers certain pre-departure medical services for refugees coming to Canada for resettlement. The IFHP provides limited, temporary coverage of health-care benefits to people in the following groups who aren’t eligible for provincial or territorial (PT) health insurance.
If you currently have IFHP support, services such as therapy sessions with registered psychotherapists and counselling therapists are covered. Contact us today to schedule an appointment.
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Naturopathic Medicine, Cupping and Acupuncture
Naturopathic doctors are trained to provide primary care services in diagnosing, preventing, and treating acute and chronic illness. Naturopathic Medicine treats patients by addressing their physical, environmental, lifestyle, attitudinal, and emotional aspects of their health. This allows ND’s to find and treat the cause of the disease using a variety of different therapies. Naturopathic Medicine uses natural remedies to help the body heal itself. It embraces many therapies, including herbs, massage, acupuncture, cupping, exercise, and nutritional counseling. Naturopathic Medicine does not replace regular medicine. Instead it helps to enhance the individuals healthcare by adding different components that regular medicine may not offer. When combined, at times, Naturopathic Medicine and regular Medicine can work together beautifully for the benefit of the patient.