.png)
TRISH STEPHENS
Registered Psychotherapist
MA Counselling Psychology
Working from an integrative and tailored perspective, Trish Stephens uses a combination of evidence based therapies (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR Therapy), Behavioural Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, and Mindfulness Techniques) to assist her clients.
Trish's approach to therapy is a collaborative one. Together, she and her clients establish a strengths-based foundation and build towards awareness, growth, empowerment and change. She is committed to listening, understanding, and supporting her clients through all of their experiences, past, present, and future.
Her therapeutic process is gentle yet practical, and always down-to-earth.
Trish achieved her Masters in Counselling Psychology (MACP) and also holds a Masters of Arts in English. While completing her MACP, Trish worked with individuals diagnosed with critical mental illness at the North Bay Regional Hospital. She helped her patients to cope with depression, anxiety, addiction, trauma, stigma, anger, loss/grief, self confidence, and social interaction. She also supported her patients in cultivating healthy relationships, establishing personal boundaries, and developing the skills for wholesome living.
Trish feels incredibly privileged to work in the mental health community, and is grateful to those who share their vulnerabilities, helping us to understand that we are never alone.
If you are currently struggling with negative thoughts throughout your day, leading to stress, anxiety, or depression, click this button to gain immediate access to a tool you can use to help to train your thinking and ultimately improve your life.
AREAS OF TREATMENT
Our mental health is in constant ebb and flow, throughout the course of life.
Here is a list of the common and natural struggles that any individual may experience.
ANXIETY
ANXIETY:
The feeling of anxiety can be defined as a sense of worry, nervousness, or unease. Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental health disorders in Canada. Typically, problems with anxiety are characterized as being chronic, lasting at least 6 months, and likely to get progressively worse without treatment. However, many people experience anxiety acutely and can benefit from therapy.
DEPRESSION:
Depression affects up to 20% of Canadians within their lifetime, although this number is thought to be underreported. Depression is episodic in nature, lasting weeks, months, or even years. Symptoms of depression are usually experienced for most of the day, nearly everyday. Many episodes of depression are considered a highly treatable, usually through talk therapy and sometimes supplemented through pharmacology.
DEPRESSION
SELF-ESTEEM
SELF-ESTEEM:
The degree to which one feels valuable, confident, and worthy of respect is called self-esteem. The development of self-esteem starts in early childhood and usually tends to fluctuate throughout the course of life. Experiences such as bullying, abuse, being compared to others, spending time on social media, having relationships end, poor eating habits, overly critical people, and even bad posture, all have the ability to rob a person of their self-esteem.
TRAUMA:
The traditional definition of trauma as defined by the DSM-5 limits
trauma to being an actual or threatened physical experience of death,
serious injury, or sexual violence. While this definition can certainly be useful, it excludes a form a trauma that has been well documented and researched: psychological trauma. Now, trauma is understood to be ANY event which is extremely upsetting, temporarily overwhelms an individual’s internal resources, and produces lasting psychological symptoms.
TRAUMA
STRESS
STRESS:
Stress can be experienced in many different areas of our lives. Work, finances, family, friends, parenting, school, travel, sex, and hundreds of other situations have the potential (and indeed likelihood) of contributing to the amount of stress experienced in one’s life. Evolutionarily, the human stress response helped us to survive dangerous situations. Today, our bodies are still wired with these reactions to actual or perceived threats, causing us to feel stress when the demands and challenges in our lives increase beyond our capacity to cope.
HEALTHY LIVING:
Many people strive for healthy living but are never able to achieve
their goal. What a lot of people don’t realize it that healthy living
requires a change in lifestyle, a new way of thinking, and the
development of new habits. Each of these things take TIME. and comes from a long-term commitment that you make to one person, and one
person only: YOU.
