Do you think you may be living with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? Were you recently diagnosed? ADHD can impact our day to day lives and looks a little different for everyone. Therapy for ADHD can support the client in understanding their symptoms better and finding coping tools that work for them. While Jody does not diagnose, she can support you through the process as it can be confusing. There can be a lot of feelings to unpack, especially with late diagnoses.

Are you feeling worried or anxious all the time? Have you started avoiding certain people, places, or things? Anxiety can present with physical symptoms and prevent us from doing things we love. Anxiety can feel scary, and even result in panic attacks. Therapy can help with understanding your personal anxiety symptoms, find individualized coping tools and even provide treatment.

Do you feel angry all the time? Are your actions or behaviors impacting your personal or professional life? Are you finding it difficult to move past certain events or arguments? Therapy can help you understand your anger and what is behind it. CBT and DBT are often utilized when supporting clients with anger management.

Are you feeling stuck, unmotivated or undervalued at work? It is almost impossible to distinguish career counselling from personal therapy-we spend so much of our lives at work. Our work can influence our lives at home, and vice versa. This type of therapy may look at interview preparation, interpersonal communication, skills training, career modification or alteration, and even retirement planning.

Have you gone undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for years? Have you struggled with your pain management? If you are living with an auto-immune disease it can be extremely challenging for others to understand that while you "look okay", you are impacted everyday. Chronic pain can impact our lives in many ways, outside of the pain itself. Therapy can assist in understanding ourselves better and planning for our future. EMDR is an evidence based therapy that can also be utilized as part of a treatment plan for chronic pain.

Living with depression can make you feel hopeless, and worthless. Sometimes it sneaks up on you, and you may not even remember when you started feeling unlike yourself. Depression can drain your energy and often result in racing thoughts over the past, bringing up feelings of guilt, and shame. It can also be marked by fatigue, even when sleeping a lot. There are many treatment options available for depression, including EMDR.

Dissociation is often a symptom of traumatic events and can feel very scary. This is our bodies way of protecting us from overwhelming experiences that are "too much, or too fast". While this protection can be helpful, it might not be serving us any longer. There are three different dissociative disorders, and wide ranges of symptoms in between. Jody has specialized training in trauma and dissociation and can support you through this.

Are you tired of using unhealthy coping skills like substance use, or anger? Do you find it hard to adapt to unexpected events? If you are having trouble regulating your emotions, therapy can help. By looking at patterns and taking a look at the feelings beneath our emotions we can start to change our habits. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT tools will likely be used, and focusing on the mind body connection can also be helpful.

Do you recognize that your family has unhealthy communication? Maybe you want to break the intergenerational cycle. Therapy for problems with our family may include conversations about parenting, divorce, blended families, division of labour, grief, infidelity, medical problems, cultural or religious differences, spirituality, and finances among other concerns.

First Responders and Military members or Public Safety Personnel (PSP) experience more traumatic incidents than the general public, due to the very nature of their work. Firefighters, Active Military and Veterans, Correctional Officers, Police/Sheriff/Peace Officers, Paramedics, Nurses, and Emergency Dispatch Operators are all apart of their own unique cultures. Having a therapist with specialized training, an understanding of these professions and the trauma that impacts them is integral.

Did you know that grief takes many forms? Grief can be felt in the passing of our loved ones, our beloved pets, and even those we are estranged from. We can also feel grief with life transitions such as the end of a career or relationship, and moving. There can even be a mourning period for changes like pregnancy- it is normal and okay to be both excited for the future and grieve our old lives. Counselling can support you through the process of grief.

Dating, marriage can be as hard as they can be fulfilling. Love and relationship topics may include trust, betrayal, ghosting, online dating, infidelity, finances, infertility, LGBTQ2Ia+S relationships, alternative relationship styles (non-monogamy, swinging) communication, family matters, parenting, culture, respect, religion, or spirituality to name a few. Therapy can help you navigate these concerns by yourself, or with your partner, in a more healthy way.

OSI's are experienced by Public Safety Personnel (PSP) and often result from their day to day responsibilities (trauma, burnout, grief, combat, or other high stress incidents). These injuries are psychological and may include PTSD, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse among other mental health problems. Contact us if you think you may be living with an OSI.

Are you struggling to trust yourself? Do you feel the need to people please and talk down to yourself often? If you are struggling with self-worth and value, therapy can help. Low self-esteem can impact our sleep, work, and relationships with others and ourselves. Decreased self-confidence can also be addressed with a counsellor to improve your belief in yourself. Jody loves to help clients in finding their self-love!

Do you find yourself exhausted throughout the day, and then unable to sleep at night? Are you staring at the clock watching the minutes tick down, counting the hours before you need to wake up? Problems with sleeping can include difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep or both. Therapy can help take a look at your sleep hygiene to improve your habits. Alternatively there may be other stressors impacting your sleep, that the therapist can help with.

Stress looks so different for everyone and can stem from both negative, and positive life events (marriage, kids, buying a house, travelling). Counselling for stress will likely include some form of CBT, problem solving and examining current coping skills. Come to therapy to explore your stress and find unique to you solutions.

No-one is exempt from trauma, and it can happen to anyone. Many people mistake trauma for only being the "big things" like war, violence, physical or sexual abuse, accidents, or natural disasters. Many other events can be considered traumatic such as divorce, infidelity, betrayal of any kind, or even financial issues. As a trauma-informed therapist, Jody is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. EMDR is an evidence based trauma-treatment that can help you heal. For more information on trauma, check out Jody's blog.