Birch Wellness Services
Working independently, yet collaboratively, the members of the Birch Wellness Center provide excellent care to their clients. The opportunity to meet together for consultation, referral, and support enhances the independent practices of the professionals working at the Birch Wellness Center. Clients of the Birch Wellness Center have access to a best-practices collaborative professional group that facilitates and promotes overall wellness, mental health, and personal growth.
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Addiction is a medical condition characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli, despite adverse consequences.
- Amber Dittberner (Alcohol/ Drug/ Gambling)
ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by excessive amounts of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity that are pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and otherwise age-inappropriate.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) : info…
Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine and a key component of traditional Chinese medicine, that involves pricking the skin or tissues with thin needles, used to alleviate pain and to treat various physical, mental, and emotional conditions.
Anger Management – is the process of learning to recognize signs that you’re becoming angry, and taking action to calm down and deal with the situation in a positive way.
Anxiety a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.
Attachment Disorder is defined as the condition in which individuals have difficulty forming lasting relationships. They often show nearly a complete lack of ability to be genuinely affectionate with others. They typically fail to develop a conscience and do not learn to trust.
Behavior Change ……..
Bipolar Disorder – formerly manic depression, is a mental disorder with periods of depression and periods of elevated mood. The elevated mood is significant and is known as mania or hypomania, depending on its severity, or whether symptoms of psychosis are present. During mania an individual behaves or feels abnormally energetic, happy or irritable. Individuals often make poorly thought out decisions with little regard to the consequences. The need for sleep is usually reduced during manic phases. During periods of depression there may be crying, a negative outlook on life, and poor eye contact with others.
Brainspotting – …………
Birth Trauma – ….
Body Image Issues – involve feeling unsatisfied with your physical appearance.
Child Abuse Trauma – Childhood trauma can occur when a child witnesses or experiences overwhelming negative events in childhood.
Child and Youth Therapy – (also called child counselling) offers children and adolescents a safe space and an empathetic ear while providing tools to bring about change in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Children receive emotional and goal support in their sessions.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy a type of psychotherapy in which negative patterns of thought about the self and the world are challenged in order to alter unwanted behavior patterns or treat mood disorders such as depression.
Coping Skills to invest own conscious effort, to solve personal and interpersonal problems, in order to try to master, minimize or tolerate stress and conflict. The psychological coping mechanisms are commonly termed coping strategies or coping skills. … That is strategies which reduce stress.
Chronic Pain is pain that lasts a long time. In medicine, the distinction between acute and chronic pain is sometimes determined by an arbitrary interval of time since onset; the two most commonly used markers being 3 months and 6 months since onset, though some theorists and researchers have placed the transition from acute to chronic pain at 12 months. Others apply acute to pain that lasts less than 30 days, chronic to pain of more than six months duration, and subacute to pain that lasts from one to six months. A popular alternative definition of chronic pain, involving no arbitrarily fixed duration, is “pain that extends beyond the expected period of healing”.
Depression is not a passing blue mood but rather persistent feelings of sadness and worthlessness and a lack of desire to engage in formerly pleasurable activities.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy – Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is a treatment developed by a psychologist named Marsha Linehan. This is a treatment that focuses on your goals, skills, and the future that you want to build. This treatment was developed to help clients who struggle with regulating intense emotions, anger, impulsivity, addiction, eating disordered behaviours, self-destructive and suicidal behaviour, trauma, and/or borderline personality disorder.
Divorce (or dissolution of marriage) is the termination of a marriage or marital union, the canceling and/or reorganizing of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage, thus dissolving the bonds of matrimony between a married couple under the rule of law of the particular country, state and/or province.
Domestic Abuse – is violence committed by someone in the victim’s domestic circle. This includes partners and ex-partners, immediate family members, other relatives and family friends. The term ‘domestic violence’ is used when there is a close relationship between the offender and the victim.
Dual Diagnosis is the term used to describe patients with both severe mental illness (mainly psychotic disorders) and problematic drug and/or alcohol use. Personality disorder may also co-exist with psychiatric illness and/or substance misuse.
Eating Disorders The three major eating disorders—anorexia, or voluntary starvation; bulimia, marked by bouts of bingeing followed by compensatory behavior such as purging; and binge-eating, marked by episodes of out-of control gorging—are common but complex conditions and often accompanied by depression and perfectionism.
EMDR Therapy Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy developed by Francine Shapiro that emphasizes disturbing memories as the cause of psychopathology. It is used to help with the symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Emotional Disturbance means a condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects a child’s educational performance: A. An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory or health factors; B. An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers; C. Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances; D. A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression; or E. A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems. The term includes schizophrenia. The term does not apply to children who are socially maladjusted, unless it is determined that they have an emotional disturbance (ED).
Gambling Addiction: is an urge to gamble continuously despite negative consequences or a desire to stop. Problem gambling is often defined by whether harm is experienced by the gambler or others, rather than by the gambler’s behaviour. Severe problem gambling may be diagnosed as clinical pathological gambling if the gambler meets certain criteria. Pathological gambling is a common disorder that is associated with both social and family costs.
Gender Identity is defined as a personal conception of oneself as male or female (or rarely, both or neither). This concept is intimately related to the concept of gender role, which is defined as the outward manifestations of personality that reflect the gender identity.
Grief, Loss & Bereavement is a multifaceted response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something that has died, to which a bond or affection was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions. While the terms are often used interchangeably, bereavement refers to the state of loss, and grief is the reaction to loss.
Indigenous Issues ……..
Inner Adjustment refers to the behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
Inner Child Work is our childlike aspect. It includes all that we learned and experienced as children, before puberty. The inner child denotes a semi-independent entity subordinate to the waking conscious mind.
Mental Health a person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) – is an anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations (obsessions), or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something (compulsions).
Osteopathic Manual Therapy (OMT) – Osteopathic Manual Therapists primarily work through the neuro-musculo-skeletal system, mostly on muscles and joints, using holistic and patient-centered approaches.
PTSD – Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event.
Pre and Post natal Depression –
Psychoeducation – (a portmanteau of psychological education) is an evidence-based therapeutic intervention for patients and their loved ones that provides information and support to better understand and cope with illness. Psychoeducation is most often associated with serious mental illness, including dementia, schizophrenia, clinical depression, anxiety disorders, psychotic illnesses, eating disorders, personality disorders, and autism, although the term has also been used for programs that address physical illnesses, such as cancer.
Relationship Issues – are situations and difficulties that have a negative effect on the short and long term success of an intimate relationship.
Self-Harming –
Self-Esteem – is confidence in one’s own worth or abilities. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs about oneself (for example, “I am loved”, “I am worthy”) as well as emotional states, such as triumph, despair, pride, and shame. Smith and Mackie (2007) defined it by saying “The self-concept is what we think about the self; self-esteem, is the positive or negative evaluations of the self, as in how we feel about it
Sexual Abuse also referred to as molestation, is usually undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another.
Sexuality capacity for sexual feelings.
Sexual Addiction: also known as sex addiction, is a state characterized by compulsive participation or engagement in sexual activity, particularly sexual intercourse, despite negative consequences.
Stress a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances.
Trauma emotional shock following a stressful event or a physical injury, which may be associated with physical shock and sometimes leads to long-term neurosis.
- Dr. Phoenix Gillis, Ph.D., C. Psych. (Child Abuse Trauma)
Unfinished Business in Relationships
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