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Services

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Clinic

Struggling with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (also known as OCD)? OCD causes people to experience unwanted thoughts, images, or urges that make them feel worried, guilty, or even shameful, and causes them to feel like they have to do "something" in order to get rid of the feelings! People might wash their hands, count, check, seek reassurance or many other behaviours to try to get rid of their distress. Often, the distress from OCD bothers people so much that they find it difficult to spend time with family and friends, pay attention in school, get to important places like school or work, or be in public spaces. The OCD can even draw in family members, and can cause issues with how the family functions.

 

If some of this sounds like what you are struggling with then you have come to the right place!

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Blooming Minds offers specialized treatment for OCD symptoms with the gold standard of treatment called Exposure and Response Prevention. At Blooming Minds both Intensive and Non-Intensive treatments are provided (please contact for details).

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Treatment

We treat all sub-types of OCD

  • Washing/Contamination: ​Worries about dirt, germs, contamination, chemicals etc. and will wash, clean or avoid.

  • Ordering/Arranging/Symmetry: A need to have things even, balanced or "just right" and will order/arrange things. 

  • Counting/Repeating: Magical numbers; a sense of "incompleteness" or urge to repeat action if it is not done a certain amount of times and will count, repeat, tap, etc. 

  • Checking: Worries that they have harmed self or others, being responsible for something bad happening etc. and will check things, or avoid. Example: Jenna worries that she may leave the front door open and the dogs will run out of the house so she constantly checks to see if she has closed the door all the way.  

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  • Scrupulosity: Intrusive sexual thoughts or urges, violent thoughts or urges; excessive religious or moral doubt; a need to tell, ask, confess etc. and will pray, confess, ask, or seek reassurance. 

Please note that people often struggle with more than one of the sub-types of OCD.

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Psychotherapy Clinic 

Are you a child, teen, young adult or adult with mental health symptoms that get in the way of having fun, hanging out with friends, going to school or work, being away from home, being away from your parents, getting along with your children, parenting, controlling your emotions, controlling your behaviours, dealing with emotions in a healthy way, getting along with others (i.e. parents or romantic), having healthy relationships, sleeping, or eating? If so, then you have come to the right place!
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Blooming Minds offers services that help with a variety of different mental health issues through secure Video Counselling and in-home or community sessions. In addition, Blooming Minds provides parent coaching, and parent support for parents of children and teens with mental health issues. 

Treatment

Each Individual Therapy session is 60 min

Primary Modalities of Treatment: 

  • Emotion Focused Therapy

  • Attachment Based Interventions

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy 

  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

  • Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy

  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

 Services will be offered to treat the following issues: 

  • Body Focused Repetitive Behaviours (hair pulling, skin picking) 

  • Depression 

  • Anxiety (Generalized Anxiety, Separation Anxiety, Social & other Phobias) 

  • Grief

  • Anger

  • Situational Crisis (divorce, separations, break ups)

  • Life Transitions

  • Self Harm

  • Parent-Child Conflict 

  • Difficulty in relationships (romantic, parent, friendships etc.) 

  • Stress

  • Difficulty tolerating, and managing emotions

  • Low Self-Esteem

  • & More!

Approach

Blooming Minds is dedicated to offering the best care in a respectful, supportive and caring manner for clients living with mental health issues. Here at Blooming Minds there is ongoing collaboration with clients during the entire treatment journey to ensure that clients feel heard, and a strong therapeutic relationship can be built. 

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The clinical approach used for the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Emetophobia is based on a type of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and is the leading treatment for OCD. The CBT treatment is called Exposure and Response Prevention.  

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The clinical approach used for Body Focused Repetitive Behaviours such as Excoriation Disorder (skin picking) or Trichotillomania (hair pulling) etc. is Habit Reversal Training (HRT).  

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The clinical approach for the Psychotherapy Clinic is based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Attachment Based Interventions. Symptoms are assessed and treatment plans are formulated based on the following theoretical frameworks: Attachment Theory, Positive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Neuropsychology, Self-Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Attachment Theory, and Ecological Systems Theory.  

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