What is psychology?
Psychology is both an applied and academic field that studies the human mind and behavior. Applications of psychology include mental health treatment, performance enhancement, self-help, and many other areas affecting health and daily life.
Psychology session has a number of benefits. Psychology sessions may provide a fresh perspective and help manage personal growth, interpersonal relationships.
Other benefits of psychology sessions are:
- Understanding yourself better
- Developing skills to resolve cope with stress, anxiety and improve your relationship
- Help break unhealthy emotional patterns and develop new ones
- Improve your communication skills, self-esteem and manage emotional pressures.
What can psychology help with?
Psychologists are experts at helping people find their way through life’s difficulties including such common sources of distress as relationship problems, career and family conflicts, physical illness, work stress, substance abuse and addiction and the anxiety and depression that can accompany these and other challenges. A session with a psychologist can help clients better understand their thoughts and feelings, and then make decisions on how to deal with these emotions and cognitions. As a result, individuals can feel more in control of their life.
During the initial consultation, our psychologist will engage in an exploration of your goals for therapy and determine which treatment approach best meets your needs. Our registered psychologist provides treatment for both children and adults.
Counseling for problems in children:
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Counseling for problems in adults:
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Individual Counselling Sessions
Individual counseling sessions is aimed to help increase an individual’s self-awareness by understanding the influence of past experiences and the influence with yourself and your relationship towards others.
Individual counseling sessions may improve your ability to identify and reduce painful emotions as well as self-defeating behaviors.
Individuals often come to counseling because they:
- Feeling depressed and/or anxious
- Want to cope more effectively with stressful situations
- Struggle with personal and professional relationships
- Confused about their emotions
- Desire to help resolve past and present family conflicts
- Find it difficult to communicate with significant others in their lives
- Feel guilty about past and/or current behaviors
Couple Counseling Sessions
Couple Counseling Sessions is focused on the relationship. The goal is to help improve couples communication with each other and reestablish a respectful emotional and help identify, understand and resolve conflicts in your relationship. The process is to develop and implement a positive vision and communication to help create a fresh emotional connection in which both partners can increase intimacy and emotional connection in your current relationship.
Couples who seek counseling maybe:
- Frequently angry with one another
- Unable to resolve grievances
- Feel unheard and not respected
- Considering separation and/or divorce
- Feel distant and alienated from each other
Areas of Expertise
Areas of Expertise
- Pre and Postpartum Depression
- Learning Problems
- Parent – Child Conflict
- Relationships
- Anxiety and Depression
FAQs
What can I expect from a session with our psychologist?
The initial session, is focused on gathering information from the client (what brings you in for counseling and how long you have been dealing with the issue, etc.) and also in developing a relationship. Following sessions focus on helping the client gain better understanding of their emotional and behavioral patterns and problem-solving strategies.
How long does psychological treatment take?
Determining the duration of treatment is often difficult to do, as it is based on an individual basis. A number of factors are taken into consideration prior to being able to comment on how long the sessions may take. Factors such as the presenting issue, clients expectations, how the individual would like to approach their situation (coping strategies or in-depth exploration) and how long the individual has been dealing with the problem.
For those who have adjustment problems tend to show improvement in eight to twelve sessions and usually complete treatment within twenty session or less. Moderate problems or intermediate problems usually takes sixteen to thirty sessions and may last a full year. Especially if the problem is ongoing or additional complications arise. For those who have more serious problems (chronic depression, stress responses, personality problems, caring for an ill family member) may often require treatment for one year or longer.
Sessions are scheduled weekly, biweekly or monthly depending on the need of the client.
What is the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist?
A psychologist has a graduate degree (either a master or doctorate) in clinical or counseling psychology. A psychiatrist has a medical degree and is able to prescribe medications.
Do insurance companies cover psychologist?
Most extended health benefits have coverage for treatment by a Registered Psychologist. Please check with your insurance provider.
Is the information you provide confidential?
Your information is not to be disclosed without written permission. However, there are a number of exceptions to the rule. Exceptions include:
- Suspected child, dependent or elder abuse
- Client is treating serious bodily harm to another person
- Client is intends to harm themselves
Meet Our Registered Psychologist
Petra Spletzer, PH.D.
Special Interest: Anxiety & Depression (including Prenatal and Postpartum), stress/ anger, couples counseling, parenting. read profile
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