Seasonal Affective Disorder/Major Depressive Disorder With Seasonal Pattern
Individuals who report difficulties with SAD/MADS often describe feeling excessively tired, depressed, and irritable. Some other symptoms that individuals experience include difficulties concentrating, trouble sleeping, and muscle aches/pains.
According to Fiona Marschall and Peter Cheevers’ text, Positive Options for Seasonal Affective Disorder, light therapy combined with counselling is considered to be the most effective method for treating SAD/MADS symptoms. Marchall and Cheever’s suggest that SAD/MADS symptoms are thought to be caused by a biochemical imbalance in the brain (lack of serotonin). Research suggests that emotional stress during the winter months may trigger the depression associated with SAD/MAD.
If you’d like to find out more information about how our Vaughan or Maple counselling centre can help, please feel free to give us a call at 416-999-343 or fill out the appointment request form.
Phone & Online Counselling in Vaughan
Our treatment model over the telephone or skype is no different than our face-to-face model. We work together to create goals and develop a plan to help you meet them. Session by session we will monitor your progress to ensure that you are moving forward.
If you have any questions, and would like to schedule a time to speak with us, please feel free to call us at 416-999-3437.
We look forward to being a part of your success.
**Please Note**
Counselling Services for York Region is NOT an emergency crisis line. If you are experiencing an emergency (feeling suicidal), please go to your nearest emergency facility or call 911.
High School/College/University Preparation Counselling
Many of us have grown up with the expectation to perform well in school. However, many of us haven’t been taught how to actually prepare ourselves to succeed academically. We’ve created a program to help you prepare for meeting your academic responsibilities. Counselling specific to learning and memorization will teach you research based methods of improving your study skills and memorization techniques. We will work together to identify your areas of need and develop a strategy to help you meet your academic goals.
Our Vaughan and Maple counselling centres are here to help! For more information, please feel free to call us at 416-999-3437.
Social Anxiety Disorder - Counselling
Many individuals who experience difficulties with anxiety can often relate to feeling nervousness, self-consciousness, uncertainty, and dread when in a social situation. People may begin to feel nervous attending interviews, going on a date, speaking with their superiors, or even when engaging in casual conversation. These feelings of anxiety are actually quite common. Almost everyone experiences some form of social anxiety at some point in his or her life (i.e. experiencing ‘butterflies’ before a speech). However, for some of us, the anxiety overpowers us and we are unable to function as we'd like. Our counselling program for social anxiety is geared to help our clients understand how their environment, behaviours, thoughts, and feelings influence their anxiety. We help our clients create strategies to challenge, improve, and ultimately see success in meeting their goals for therapy. Many of our clients who participate in our social anxiety counselling program are better able to:
- Speak to others without feeling anxious
- Improve the relationships in their life
- Cope with other stressors in their life more effectively
- Expand their social network
- Reacquaint themselves with some type of ‘normalcy’ when speaking to others
Part of the program is introducing new skills for individuals who experience difficulties with social anxiety disorder. These new skills may be conversational awareness, tips to start a conversation, and learning body language. We will work on challenging your negative cognitive thoughts by educating you on specific cognitive distortions that are influencing your negative thinking. Once we do this, than we introduce you to carefully constructed challenges to help build your self confidence and build your skills. Most people in the program describe it as compassionate, motivating, and relatable. The goal is to work with you so you are doing the exposures at a pace you enjoy (there is no pressure on you to do anything you don't want to do).
Please feel free to call us or ask for any additional information regarding our program. We are here to help.
Located conveniently in Vaughan, Ontario, we are here to help! To book an appointment please call 416-999-3437 or fill out our appointment request form.
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