Art therapy combines creative therapeutic processes and psychotherapy to enhance self-exploration, healing, and understanding. Through using various art-making materials, clients may express thoughts and feelings that might otherwise be difficult to express through language alone.

At State of MIND, we have a team of compassionate and highly competent counsellors who offer specialized counselling services for neurodivergent individuals.

Child-Parent Relationship Therapy is a play-based treatment program for young children presenting with behavioral, emotional, social, and attachment concerns. At the heart of CPRT is the premise that a secure parent child relationship is the essential factor for children’s well-being.

COS helps caregivers connect with the children in their lives. The Circle of Security focuses on helping caregivers reflect upon children’s attachment needs in order to promote secure attachment with a child.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective for a range of problems including depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug use problems, marital problems, eating disorders, and severe mental illness.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a form of therapy that builds on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and mindfulness as a foundation. DBT has been successfully used to help people move forward from being stuck in unregulated mood and thoughts, into a life worth living.

Treats both the parent and infant/young child together. It addresses all levels of these interacting factors: the parent’s health and needs, the baby’s health and needs, their relationship, and their family system.

EFFT focuses on restoring connections and promoting resilience in family relationships. The principle goal of EFFT is to re-establish more secure family patterns where attachment and caregiving responses are effective and emotional bonds are repaired.

ERP is a therapy that stems from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) principles and has been shown to be an effective treatment for anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

EMDR is a structured therapy that encourages the patient to briefly focus on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories.

The Gottman method can be used as an effective treatment to improve marital relationships, adjustment, and intimacy.

Grief counselling focuses on working through the grieving process related to a major loss.

Hypnosis is usually considered an aid to  therapy, because the hypnotic state allows people to explore painful thoughts, feelings, and memories they might have hidden from their conscious minds. In addition, hypnosis enables people to perceive some things differently, such as blocking an awareness of pain.

Mindfulness is a practice that involves paying attention to the present moment with non-judgmental awareness. It can help you cultivate a deeper connection with your inner self, others, and the world around you.

Narrative therapy views people as the experts in their own lives.

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Perinatal mental health refers to any mental health issue experienced “around” pregnancy.

Person-centered therapy identifies that each person has the capacity and desire for personal growth and change within themselves.

Play Therapy Play therapy is a form of psychotherapy which provides children with a developmentally appropriate way of expressing themselves. Toys are language to children and play provides the forum for them to communicate and express their feelings.

Sand tray therapy uses sand, water, and a variety of miniatures to create stories that represent a person’s inner world. It may help the person become aware of unknown past or current challenges in life.

Solution-focused brief therapy places focus on a person’s present and future circumstances and goals rather than past experiences.

Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) addresses the mental health needs of individuals suffering from the destructive effects of early trauma.

WWW is a child led psychotherapeutic approach that specifically and directly uses the infant’s spontaneous activity in a free play format to enhance maternal sensitivity and responsiveness, the child’s sense of self and self-efficacy, emotion regulation, and the child-parent attachment relationship.