Prevailing Minds

When you're dealing with challenges it's essential that your therapist or counsellor has the education, training, and experience needed to help you. It is also almost always helpful to know that the person who is helping you through your struggles has had some relevant experiences of their own. We understand that lived experience with challenges is an asset in therapy and counselling. Our therapists are open with their history of challenges while maintaining their professional boundaries and skill set in order to provide you with an unparalleled, effective counselling experience. SERVICE USERS: Through assessment and open conversation we will work together to understand your challenges and to identify concrete, action-based goals that can help you overcome your challenges. Each week we will review goals and revise and advance them as necessary. We treat issues like depression, anxiety, phobias (including agoraphobia), eating disorders (including restrictive-type eating disorders such as anorexia, purging-type eating disorders such as bulimia, binge eating disorders, emotional overeating, and food aversions), and other issues. We use modalities such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT), mindfulness, exposure therapy/systematic desensitization, and existential approaches. We also offer affordable short courses on self-help topics that use the modalities described above. SERVICE PROVIDERS: We will help you improve client-centred care, give you strategies to centralize the experiences of service users in your services, and learn ways of sharing with them aspects of decision-making related to service development and delivery. We will help you to incorporate Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology to ensure your services are truly client-centred. Learn how to implement participatory projects yourself, or get us to design a custom project for you.