Specialized Anxiety & OCD Mental Health Care

Feel like you're constantly fighting your own mind? Tired of feeling like your mind is always racing? Struggling with constant worry and stress?
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Our therapists can help you feel more in control of your thoughts, and find calm and clarity in your daily life.
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What you can do

Anxiety & OCD Assessment

Do you feel like you're always on edge, waiting for something to go wrong? Is it hard to relax, even when there's "nothing to worry about"? If you're exhausted from overthinking, checking, or second-guessing yourself, you may benefit from an anxiety or OCD assessment. Clarify a diagnosis, and discover your next steps toward feeling in control of your thoughts, and at peace in the moment.

Anxiety & OCD Counselling

Does anxiety keep you from enjoying the present moment? Are you exhausted by the "what-ifs" or the need to be "perfect" in every situation? Imagine living without the weight of constant anxiety or obsessive worries. Evidence-based treatments like CBT,  and Exposure & Response Prevention can help you break free from the cycle of stress and overwhelm. The first step is reaching out.

Anxiety & OCD Informed Couples & Family Therapy

Do constant worries or compulsions lead to tension in your relationship? Feeling like your partner doesn't understand the stress of your anxiety or OCD? Imagine feeling supported and understood even on tough days.  Couples counselling can help.

Anxiety & OCD Focused Youth Counselling

Does worry or obsessive thinking make school and friendships harder for your child? Do they feel like no one gets how much their anxiety takes over, or why they do certain things? Therapy can help youth feel less alone, and more confident in themselves.

Anxiety & OCD Therapists

1 in 4 Canadians experience an anxiety disorder in their lifetime.

Online therapy can help.

About Anxiety & OCD

Anxiety disorders are the most common of all mental health problems. The good news is, anxiety disorders can be successfully treated–by better understanding anxiety and learning how to better manage symptoms, you can find the relief you need and live the life you want.  So it’s important to be able to recognize when you might be experiencing anxiety that is causing you distress or creating a barrier to enjoying the life you deserve.

Symptoms of Anxiety Disorders & OCD

Everyone experiences anxiety sometimes. But over 20% of Canadians experience an anxiety disorder.  Learn more about recognizing the signs and symptoms of anxiety and OCD.

When anxiety causes excessive fear, worry, or distress that is out of proportion to your actual situation, you might be suffering from an anxiety disorder. With an anxiety disorder, your brain might interpret real or imagined events as far more dangerous or risky than they really are, causing intense feelings of unease and likely interfering with personal, academic, or professional aspects of your life, and can even impact physical health conditions. 
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Anxiety disorders can affect adults and children alike, and often co-occur with other mental health challenges such as depression, eating disorders, or substance use. The good news is that anxiety disorders are successfully treated with appropriate mental health care, once recognized. A first important step is developing a better understanding of what you’re experiencing.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Persistent and excessive fear or worry about various day-to-day events or situations, often with difficulty concentrating, or controlling the worried thoughts, even when you or others label them as "unreasonable" for the situation.

Separation anxiety

Fear, worry or nightmares about being away from home, a parent, or someone or something special to you, and severe distress when you get separated can happen in childhood or adulthood. 

Social anxiety

An extreme fear of social situations, excessive worry about potential criticism or rejection, can lead to isolating and avoidant tendencies.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Recurring obsessions (e.g. persistent thoughts, urges, or images that cause anxiety or distress) and attempts to suppress them through unrealistic or excessive compulsions (e.g. repetitive, rigid behaviours or mental acts).

Specific phobia

Extreme fear of exposure to something specific like an animal (e.g. snake, dog), environment (e.g. heights, water), medical procedure (e.g. needles), or situation (e.g. flying, small spaces).

Panic attack

A sudden surge of fear, distress, and perceived loss of control that may come with physically feeling nauseous, dizzy, sweaty, or like you're dying.

Online Counselling Treatment

Treatment for Anxiety and OCD can be highly effective to help you find sustainable relief, and learn how to manage symptoms.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) are some of the most common therapeutic approaches used in counselling for the successful treatment of anxiety disorders. CBT can involve helping you approach and work through your anxious thoughts and feelings so that you can shift toward more rational ones. ERP can involve gradual and controlled exposure to anxiety-provoking thoughts, or situations in a safe way, so that you become increasingly able to respond to those thoughts, objections, or situations, with less distress or anxiety. 

These approaches can help you develop a sense of internal mastery when it comes to your ability to self-regulate, so that you can confidently come to a state of greater ease and physiological relaxation, regardless of the situation at hand. This might include safe and controlled exposure to the anxiety provoking thoughts, feelings, or situations, and relearning strategies that support physiological relaxation. These strategies work by helping your body and mind better cope with anxiety-provoking content, and can lead to the sustainable prevention of recurring distressful automatic reactions that can lead to intense anxiety or panic attacks. Can you imagine what your life might be like without the barrier of intense anxiety?

​An important first step is to clarify whether you might be experiencing an anxiety disorder. From there, match with a qualified mental health therapist with expertise in treating anxiety disorders, so that you can confidently work toward sustainable relief and start living the life you want.

Other Related Areas of Expertise

OCD and Anxiety disorders can often co-occur with other mental health concerns, including depression, and trauma or stressor related issues. 

Depression

Trauma

An expert on your side makes anxiety and OCD easier to face

From determining an accurate diagnosis to supporting you through specifically tailored treatment, we are committed to helping you find real, sustainable, and meaningful relief from OCD, anxiety and panic. You can do it, we can help. The first step is reaching out.