Mental Health
The mental health team consists of a psychologist and mental health therapists responsible for providing psychological treatment to people suffering from a variety of cognitive, behavioral, and emotional ailments caused by anxiety, depression, mood disorders, reaction to various traumas, difficulties adapting to and managing stress, etc. Intervention is mainly through individual psychotherapy, group interventions and psycho-educational workshops. Marital therapy is also offered.
Eligibility: Individuals aged 17 and over residing in the counties of Prescott and Russell, Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry.
If you have any questions about our programs and services, please contact us by phone at the site of your choice.
The CSCE mental health team does not offer crisis services. In a crisis situation, if you need immediate assistance, you can contact the crisis line at 1-866-996-0991.
Services are offered both in-person and virtually.
Individual or Couples Therapy
These therapy services aim to calm, relieve and sometimes even cure emotional and psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, mood disorders and reactions to various traumatic events. They also seek to resolve behavioral problems, relationship problems and problems related to adaption difficulties and stress management.
Psychotherapeutic services are provided by professionals holding masters or doctorate degrees in the various fields of practice. Their work consists of supporting people suffering from psychological disorders. They help clients modify problematic thoughts, emotions, behaviors and lifestyles. During treatment, they can also take on the role or educator, facilitator or advocate.
The Centre de santé’s mental health therapists use recognized intervention approaches and strategies such as:
- A cognitivo-behavioral approach
- A humanist-existential approach
- A systemic approach
- Short therapy sessions: strategic therapy aimed at finding solutions, a narrative approach
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) method
- Pain and disability prevention
- Etc.
The most common reasons for mental health consultation are: Anxiety, depression, marital problems, grief, adaptation difficulties, relationship problems…
By appointment only
Support Groups
Depending on demand, mental health workers offer support groups where participants can meet and discuss their difficulties experienced in particular situations. Groups of this kind also include an educational component.
Examples of support groups available at the CSCE:
- Family caregiver support group
- How to survive the suicide of a family member
- Others
Therapeutic Groups
Group intervention and treatment by presenting and applying therapeutic strategies aimed at helping individuals manage certain psychological conditions such as anxiety. The advantage of the group process is that it allows for learning by “modeling”.
Anxiety Management
Based on cognitive behavioral therapy, this group intervention aims to help you better understand anxiety. This approach enables you to understand the link between our thoughts, emotions and behaviours, and offers tools for modifying them and learning how to manage anxiety.
Initiation to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Mindfulness
Cognitive-behavioural therapy is based on awareness of the links between thoughts and emotional and/or physiological states through observation. It aims to help you modify dysfunctional thoughts in order to improve your emotional state or coping skills by regulating the links between your thoughts, emotions and behaviours. The mindfulness approach will help you develop a distance from disturbing psychological events.
The sessions include both information and experiential learning. Exercises to practise at home are suggested each week.
Healthy sleeping habits
This workshop is part of the Initiation to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Mindfulness program. The workshop present information on healthy sleep habits based on cognitive behavioral therapy. It is useful for people who experience insomnia.
Living with Trauma
The workshops based on dialectical behaviour therapy consist of four different modules:
- Mindfulness,
- Emotion regulation,
- Distress tolerance,
- Interpersonal effectiveness.
During each module, several skills to manage intense emotions. This workshop is suitable for people who have experienced traumatic events and who live with the intense emotions caused by the memories linked to these events.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) group
The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) group aims to equip you to respond more effectively and deal with different sources of human suffering. The goal in ACT is to increase psychological flexibility, in other words, our ability to adapt to difficult situations by being present and engaged (especially in the presence of difficult thoughts and feelings).
ACT can help with any situation where difficult thoughts, feelings and emotions stop us from functioning and behaving effectively.
Hold Me Tight
A responsive, caring bond with your partner provides the emotional balance needed to deal with life’s challenges – from everyday problems to major crises such as a global pandemic. The Hold Me Tight program is the only program found to both improve relationship satisfaction and foster a more secure bond.The Hold Me Tight program can help you and your partner with better communication, conflict resolution and positive problem solving.
Down to Earth
Would you like to find alternative ways to increase your well-being, your self-knowledge and your connection to nature? This experiential nature intervention program includes therapeutic, psychoeducational and ecological modules. Several guests will be present to contribute to the program according to the interests of the participants. The following sporting activities will be practised: hiking, mountain biking and yoga.
Requirements: Favourable health conditions to practise hiking, mountain biking and Yoga.
Please check the calendar to see if the group you are interested in is currently available.
Don’t hesitate to contact our workers if you wish to have a presentation given on a mental health related topic.
Here are some ideas for subjects that might be discussed: stress management, grief, family caregivers, self-esteem ….