It's Normal to Experience Life Challenges

You don't need to suffer. 

Trained therapists can help you gain insight into the root cause of what you are experiencing and help you create a plan to resolve those issues. You can feel better, in control, and able to handle life's challenges.

DO YOU AND YOUR PARTNER

  • Keep having the same argument?
  • Never seem to resolve any issues?
  • Reach the same communication impasses no matter what the topic?
  • Have thoughts about separation or divorce?
  • Lost that sparkle in your relationship?
  • Fight in front of the children and even your adult children?
  • Wonder if your relationship will survive?
  • Worry you will left alone on old age?
  • Struggle to let go of past disagreements?
It’s normal that distressed couples have more difficulty expressing their needs. This in turn makes it difficult for you to solve your conflicts. Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) developed by Susan Johnson is a validated couple therapy with a 70-75% recovery rate. Couple or marriage counselling can reduce the conflict and lead to more harmonious relationship and better communication.

In couple’s counselling, the therapist creates a safe haven for both partners to reveal their feelings and needs about past and present events. The therapist facilitates the dialogue between the couple and guides the partners to look at the feelings beneath the negative patterns. The goal of EFT is to strengthen the relationship bond in order to create friendship, security, intimacy, and pleasure. Couples’ counselling creates a safe environment for you to explore your relationship and create a new love story. Talk with a trained EFt couples' therapist today and learn how you can revitalize your relationship. 

DO YOU FIND IT DIFFICULT TO CONNECT WITH OTHERS?

Do you experience any of the following?
  • Thoughts of suicide?
  • Loss of interests in previously enjoyable activities?
  • Lack of energy?
  • Difficulty sleeping or staying asleep?
  • Lack of Appetite
  • Feeing you're being punished?
  • Trouble concentrating?
  • Restlessness or Irritability?
  • Feelings of hopelessness and never ending sadness?
  • Difficulty making simple decisions?
  • Lossing or gaining weight without trying?
  • Crying a lot of being unable to cry at all?
Depression isn’t a passing mood swing or a sign of personal weakness. It’s a serious medical condition, which impacts you in so many different ways and can interfere with your daily life. Speaking with a trained therapist can provide you with insight and the path to overcome your feelings of sadness and hopelessness. Other illnesses may occur before depression, may cause it, or be a consequence of the depression. It's important to get the help and care you need to overcome your depression. If you or someone you know and care about shows signs of depression please help them get the care they need. Calls us today, talking to a trained therapist can help you trough this difficult period. 

DO YOU FIND YOURSELF FEELING..... ANXIOUS?

·   Avoiding certain situations?
·   Unable to enjoy yourself because you worry a lot?
·   Always late or behind on tasks due to procrastination?
·   Feeling vulnerable? 
·   Your muscles are always tense or you can't seem to relax?
·   Easily startled or jumpy?
·   Think too much or expect the worst possible outcome?
·   Experience unexplainable tummy aches/ nausea?
·   Clammy or sweaty hands?
·   Is your child clingy and needs constant reassurance?
·   Do you feel your heart is racing or it's in your throat?
·   Does your anxiety interfere with your work, school, or home life?

Most people do feel nervous or tense when they face a stressful situation like a job interview or an exam. Anxiety and worries can be adaptive when they assist in identifying of real threats. Anxiety can help you stay motivated and attentive.  But when anxiety and worries occur so frequently that you develop ineffective coping responses to fear and it prevents you from engaging in everyday activities you may wish to explore the causes of your anxiety. You don't have to live with anxiety. Call today and learn how a therapist can help guide you to a more peaceful state of mind. 

HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED TRAUMA OR LOSS?

·  Have you lost a loved one or a family member?
·  Have you experienced child birth loss or a miscarriage? 
·  Have you experienced an abortion? 
·  Months afterwards are you still in shock over your loss?
·  You avoid sadness even when you are alone?
·  Do you keep busy to avoid the hurt and pain of loss?
·  Do you escape the pain of loss through avoidance?
·  Have you experienced a loss your dreams? 
·  Have you experienced a  job loss?
·  Do you experience a feeling of being overwhelmed?
·  Do you or others feel you've been unable to move forward with life?
·  Do you have a sense that your grief is just getting worse? 
·  Do you avoid thinking or talking about your loss because its so painful? 
Grief counselling is here to help you cope with intense grief, & mourning following the death of a loved one, or with major life event which has impacted your ability to cope with everyday life. Everyone experiences and expresses grief in thier own personal way. Your expression of grief is shaped by how your family or culture honours loss. Therapy can assist you in adjusting to life after a loss or tragedy. Together we can explore how to adjust to the variety of changes that can occur within yourself after a loss or trauma. 
Call us today to book your appointment.
Family-Therapy.ca   
300 March Road, Suite 205, Ottawa, Ontario
613-287-3799