Unique Therapy Opportunities and Navigating Life's Challenges
Empowering personal growth through therapy
At Dearborn Therapy, we understand that life can sometimes feel overwhelming. Counselling and psychotherapy offer a supportive space to explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, encouraging personal growth and healing. Whether you're dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship issues, or just feeling stuck, our approach is tailored to help you navigate life's challenges, develop coping strategies, and enhance your overall well-being.
At Dearborn Therapy we understand that it can be hard to take the first step. We offer unique therapeutic opportunities to our clients such as Equine Assisted Therapy, Home Visits, and Walk & Talk Therapy. Reach out to learn more about these services and how to access them.
Adult Psychotherapy
Check with your benefit provider to ensure it covers REGISTERED SOCIAL WORKER, REGISTERED SOCIAL SERVICE WORKER through OCSWSSW, REGISTERED PSYCHOTHERAPIST through CRPO OR REGISTERED NURSE through the CNO.
This may include modalities (but is not limited to)
-DBT -CBT -Narrative -Solution Focused -Brainspotting -The Flash
Training and Presentations
Uniquely tailored to your teams needs
Our expert team of professionals who practice psychotherapy brings a wide variety of experience, knowledge, and training that they can share with your team.
Our Social Workers, Nurses, and Psychotherapists can come to you in person, meet with your team virtually, or connect over the phone to share their knowledge, expertise, and wisdom.
Direct Billing
Service providers
We are connected to many different funders for direct billing. Check in with your clinician or Admin upon intake to see which clinicians are linked with your funders.
Current direct-billing funders include: NIHB, MMIW, Day School and Indian Residential school, VQRP, MPI, Blue Cross, and Metis.
Brainspotting
Brainspotting can be helpful for individuals experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, and other emotional or physical issues
- A therapist guides the client to find a "brainspot" – a specific spot in their visual field that is linked to a traumatic or painful memory.
- By focusing on this spot while addressing their feelings, the client can access and process deep-rooted emotions and sensations.
- Brainspotting aims to tap into the body's inherent self-healing mechanisms.
The FLASH technique
The Flash Technique (FT) is a recently developed evidenced-based therapeutic intervention for reducing the disturbance associated with traumatic or other distressing memories. Unlike many conventional trauma therapy interventions, FT is a minimally intrusive option that does not require the client to consciously engage with the traumatic memory. This allows the client to process traumatic memories without feeling distress. As an adjunct to the EMDR preparation phase or any exposure-based treatment, it makes it possible to process memories that would otherwise be intolerable or overwhelming to the client.
Solution Focused Therapy
What is SFBT?
Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT): is a goal-directed collaborative approach to psychotherapeutic change that is conducted through direct observation of clients' responses to a series of precisely constructed questions. Based upon social constructivist thinking and Wittgensteinian philosophy, SFBT focuses on addressing what clients want to achieve without exploring the history and provenance of problem(s).[SF therapy sessions typically focus on the present and future, focusing on the past, only to the degree necessary for communicating empathy and accurate understanding of the client's concerns.
SFBT is a future-oriented and goal-oriented interviewing technique that helps clients "build solutions." Elliott Connie defines solution building as "a collaborative language process between the client(s) and the therapist that develops a detailed description of the client(s)' preferred future/goals and identifies exceptions and past successes". By doing so, SFBT focuses on clients' strengths and resilience.
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
What is DBT?
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a type of talk therapy (psychotherapy). It’s based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), but it’s specially adapted for people who experience emotions very intensely.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a type of talk therapy that helps people understand how thoughts affect emotions and behaviours.
“Dialectical” means combining opposite ideas. DBT focuses on helping people accept the reality of their lives and their behaviours, as well as helping them learn to change their lives, including their unhelpful behaviours.
Dialectical behaviour therapy was developed in the 1970s by Marsha Linehan, an American psychologist.
Cogntitive Behavioural Therapy
What is CBT?
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on modifying dysfunctional emotions, behaviours, and thoughts by interrogating and uprooting negative or irrational beliefs. Considered a "solutions-oriented" form of talk therapy, CBT rests on the idea that thoughts and perceptions influence behaviour.
Feeling distressed, in some cases, may distort one’s perception of reality. CBT aims to identify harmful thoughts, assess whether they are an accurate depiction of reality, and, if they are not, employ strategies to challenge and overcome them.
CBT is appropriate for people of all ages, including children, adolescents, and adults. Evidence has mounted that CBT can address numerous conditions, such as major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and many others.
