Mental Health
Drop In School Counselling
The purpose of the program:
- Lunch hour program that provides an opportunity to engage with students for mental health and wellness.
- Increase therapeutic relationship with students and health centre
- Increase mental health and wellness access to students
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
The purpose of the program:
Introduce and practice DBT Exercises for learning mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotional regulation and distress tolerance
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) is a practical, short-term form of psychotherapy. It helps people to develop skills and strategies for becoming and staying healthy.
CBT focuses on the here-and-now—on the problems that come up in day-to-day life. CBT helps people to examine how they make sense of what is happening around them and how these perceptions affect the way they feel.
CBT:
- is structured
- is time-limited (usually 6-20 sessions)
- is problem-focused and goal-oriented
- teaches strategies and skills
- is based on a proactive, shared therapeutic relationship between therapist and client
Psychotherapy
Here at MBCHCH, we contract with Round Table Healing out of Thunder Bay to offer Psychotherapy services. Psychotherapy, also known as talk therapy, involves working with a trained therapist to explore thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in a safe and supportive environment. It aims to help individuals understand and manage mental health issues, cope with stress, heal from trauma, improve relationships, and foster personal growth. Psychotherapy can be tailored to different needs, including individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, and group therapy.
Support Groups
Support groups bring together individuals who share a common issue, such as mental health challenges, chronic illness, addiction, grief, or life transitions, providing a safe space to connect, share, and learn coping strategies.
Harm Reduction
Harm Reduction is an evidence-based, client-centred approach that seeks to reduce the health and social harms associated with addiction and substance use, without necessarily requiring people who use substances from abstaining or stopping. Included in the harm reduction approach to substance use is a series of programs, services and practices. Essential to a harm reduction approach is that it provides people who use substances a choice of how they will minimize harms through non-judgemental and non-coercive strategies in order to enhance skills and knowledge to live safer and healthier lives.
Harm reduction acknowledges that many individuals coping with addiction and problematic substance use may not be in a position to remain abstinent from their substance of choice. The harm reduction approach provides an option for users to engage with peers, medical and social services in a non-judgemental way that will ‘meet them where they are.