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A social worker who provides psychotherapy or a registered psychotherapist are therapists who employ a “talk therapy” approach with clients in order to establish rapport for the purpose of working toward improvement in quality of life, relationship satisfaction, healthy and rewarding functioning in work, home and play, general health and well-being. They may work with individuals, couples, families, and/or groups.
SOCIAL WORK
Counselling can help to sort through thoughts and feelings in a safe environment, and to find strategies to help one cope with difficult situations.
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Counselling can help to sort through thoughts and feelings in a safe environment, and to find strategies to help one cope with difficult situations.
Psychotherapists use a range of treatment techniques that are evidence-based, and may include:
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Motivational Interviewing
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
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Cognitive Processing Therapy
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Exposure Therapy
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
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Somatic Experiencing
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Couple’s Therapy
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The following are issues that people frequently discuss in counselling:
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Anxiety/depression
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Grief and loss
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Adjustment to illness or injury
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Relationship/family issues
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Anger/stress management
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Major Life Transitions
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Feeling as though “things could be better”
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Counselling can help to sort through thoughts and feelings in a safe environment, and to find strategies to help one cope with difficult situations. Your counsellor will not tell you what to do but rather, will work with you to find a strategy that may help you to improve your situation or change the way in which one may relate to a negative situation.
