Anxiety
Yes, anxiety sucks the happiness out of you. You can live a better life where you are not fighting with your anxious thoughts all the time to be able to make a phone call. You and I both know that you can totally make that phone call, only anxiety takes away your agency.
At Mississauga Psychotherapy Centre, our expert therapists give you actionable tools and pointers for analysis that are based in evidence based techniques such Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
We also help you explore the root of that anxiety to work towards long term relief.
Trauma/Abuse
Gentle reminder: This is your world, this is your life, you are not at the mercy of your disturbing experiences. You can still take the wheel. The stories you are telling yourself are holding you back. Let’s change that narrative because guess what; you are important and how you are feeling is real; your safety is paramount.
At Mississauga Psychotherapy Centre, our therapists are equipped with tremendous experience and training to serve your sensitive needs around trauma or ongoing abuse. We use techniques like Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Hypnotherapy, Schema Work and Narrative work alongside Inner Child Work to help you talk to yourself better; and to nurture and heal yourself.
Life Transitions
Nothing triggers your anxiety and other heightened emotions as much as a change, all the more an unpleasant unprecedented change. Yea, no one likes the sound of it. Reality check: change is the only constant. We understand how challenging it can be to make a move, moving houses, moving jobs, moving cities or changes in your family structure, changes in relationship dynamics or even quite known transitions like fall to winter. Every transition is multi-layered and impacts our body and mind more than we realize.
Unknown transitions, loss of a loved one, loss of a child, loss of a relationship, loss of a friendship, financial challenges; these events put you in a place where you do not know how to move ahead. The overwhelm, the guilt, it feels like a never ending freefall with nothing to hold onto. Hold onto us.
No matter where you are in the trajectory of your adjustment, it can be overwhelming; that becomes a road block. Your emotions don’t need to restrict your adjustment to your new unknown life. Let us help you build a tool kit that will be a solid support for a lifetime of transitions. At Mississauga Psychotherapy Centre, we use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to prepare you in the best way possible for all that is to come. Invest in being prepared for anything that might come your way, because it can all change very quickly.
Workplace challenges and Burnout
Work environments have complex challenges of their own, and can bring about tremendous stress. Our expert therapists can provide a safe space to determine underlying causes and help you identify sources of stress and develop coping mechanisms to work through them. We help you learn to reframe negative thought patterns, manage anxiety, and reduce feelings of helplessness by helping you develop strategies and set boundaries to prevent further burnout. By addressing both the mental and emotional aspects of stress, we help you regain a sense of control, improve your well-being, and ultimately enhance your relationship with work without sacrificing your mental health.
The way to turn burnout around is not a holiday or some time off. It is about setting boundaries at work, setting the tone and adjusting expectations from your own self at work. You can do it. A better work life balance awaits you.
Identity Challenges
Identity challenges can crop up when you are discovering who you are, and guess what, we do that our entire life. There is no one in your life you spend more time with than yourself. When you feel confused, you want to be this one person but you need to be this other person who is so unlike you, you are confusing your sense of self and your nervous system and your body. The way you experience the world around you and navigate your daily life is shaped entirely by your relationship with your thoughts, feelings, and your perception of self. Which is why it’s difficult when who you see in the mirror doesn’t reflect who you truly are. We believe that understanding and nurturing this relationship is key to living as your fullest, most authentic self.
At our clinic, experience a safe, supportive space facilitated by our expert professionals for you to explore the challenges and questions surrounding your sense of identity. Whether you’re grappling with self-doubt, facing a life transition, or seeking a deeper sense of purpose, we provide the guidance and tools to help you redefine and take charge of your personal story. Our work together will empower you to gain clarity on your values, desires, and goals. Because we know you deserve to live your life confidently, and truly know—and love—who you see in the mirror.
Grief and Loss
Grief is multifaceted, and can manifest in many ways—sadness, anger, guilt, or even numbness. It is hard to accept the loss of a loved one or even loss of an aspect of your life. We provide a supportive space to process these emotions and offer tools to help navigate the complex challenges of the pain grief brings. Whether it’s the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, or any significant life change, it can be traumatic. Therapy, provided by our licensed therapists, helps you embrace the grieving process, fostering emotional resilience, offering new perspectives, and guiding you toward acceptance and peace in your own time. Just remember that grief is a journey and it gets easier, eventually, but you do not have to do it all by yourself.
Narcissistic Abuse
Narcissistic abuse is a form of emotional abuse that involves behaviours such as emotional manipulation, gaslighting, intimidation, and isolation. Abusers use these techniques to control their victims, leaving them confused and powerless, questioning what is really true and disconnecting them from their true selves and even from their loved ones. This leaves deep, lasting emotional and psychological scars, even long after the relationship has ended. It can be perpetrated by anyone—romantic partners, family members, and even bosses and coworkers.
Speaking with one of our trauma focused therapists about your experiences provides a safe space to validate your trauma and acknowledge, understand, and process your scars. We offer guidance to help you reframe negative thought patterns, regain your sense of identity, and heal with resilience and self-compassion. Our therapists hold relevant training like EMDR, Hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems to support you in the best way possible on your journey to feel whole again. Let the healing begin.
Sexual Abuse
Healing from sexual abuse is a deeply personal and complex journey. At MPC, you will define safety for yourself, because right now your nervous system does not know what is safety, sexual abuse shakes up your ability to believe that you can keep yourself safe, you feel your body betrayed you, howcome you could not stop this, why did you let it happen and so many more questions that make you wonder why did it happen the way it happened? This is a non-judgemental space to help you understand and work through the impacts of your trauma. Suramya is someone who comes with over 10 years of specialized experience in dealing with complex trauma, her team is going to be your biggest support when you are looking to live more freely and meaningfully. Lets make your life about you. We help you rebuild your sense of self-worth by helping you recognise and reframe negative thought patterns and trauma responses such as anxiety or anger. Mindfulness practices help you regain control over your thoughts and emotions, so you can heal and move forward toward a future of resilience and peace.
Emotional Abuse
Emotional abuse, even though harder to detect than physical abuse, can still take many forms and leave deep scars. You can often feel worthless, fearful, or confused. While you might be doing your best, giving your best but the abuse still manages to be the bigger victim and it turns out to be your fault. It becomes more and more confusing because there might be so many overlaps with the kinds of abuse you might be experiencing. As Suramya always says, you don’t need to better define what kind of abuse itnwas, you need to better define how you felt through it. Let our therapists help you foster a safe environment where you can recognise and untangle the effects of your trauma. Once we have helped you recognize the cycle of abuse you’ve endured, we guide you in rebuilding your sense of self and creating healthy boundaries. You can break those loops and have a deeper sense of affiliation with your own self, do not forget that this is your world.
Non-physical Abuse
The all-encompassing nature of non-physical abuse makes it hard to detect, but just as damaging as physical abuse. When you experience physical violence, leaving an apparent, visible, physically painful proof for the injury, it is easy and obvious that you would take steps to heal yourself. But when you experience non physical violence, you are left feeling confused with a non-apparent psychological wound where you tend to invalidate your own need to recover from that injury. The non-physical violent acts can manifest in several different ways, such as financially, emotionally, or psychologically, and are often done to undermine victims’ sense of personal autonomy and self-worth. Identifying and understanding non-physical abuse is the crucial first step in learning to heal from it.
Therapy at Mississauga Psychotherapy Centre can help you recognise the subtleties of non-physical abuse and the lasting effects it has on your self-esteem. We help you to regain a sense of control and set healthy boundaries, empowering you to heal, rebuild trust in yourself, and foster healthier relationships in the future. Healing from abuse is complex and non-linear, but is possible with time, the right tools and the expert professional support.
Neurodivergence
Neurodivergence, such as ADHD, autism, or dyslexia, can shape a person’s experiences, strengths, and challenges in unique ways. Our evidence based techniques in therapy can help neurodivergent individuals navigate the world and build strategies tailored to their needs. At Mississauga Psychotherapy Centre we give you actionable tools to help with your challenges. We create a supportive environment that helps empower neurodivergent individuals to thrive and flourish, helping you to build confidence and lead a meaningful, fulfilling life. Additionally, we are also able to work in collaboration with Psychiatrists to help you with assessments and medication management.
Adult ADHD/ADD
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) or ADD ( Attention Deficit Disorder) can significantly impact many areas of life, including work, relationships, and self-esteem. Adults with ADHD/ADD often struggle with time management, organization, maintaining focus, and impulsivity. It is easy to go into loops of guilt, self doubt and low self esteem. These challenges can lead to feelings of frustration, shame, and a sense of underachievement. Outsource the organization to us, outsource the overwhelm to our experts and take actual pieces you can act upon to feel more in control and empowered.
We help you understand how ADHD/ADD affects your daily functioning and assist in developing practical coping strategies. By building self-awareness, providing tools for focus and organization, and fostering self-compassion, therapy helps you feel more empowered, confident, and in control of your life.
Additionally, we are also able to work in collaboration with Psychiatrists to help you with assessments and medication management.
Postpartum Challenges
For new parents, the postpartum period is rife with joys and challenges. Adjusting to life as parents can be an emotional rollercoaster. We work together with new parents in a safe environment to identify sources of stress and issues you face, including postpartum anxiety, depression, relationship changes, and isolation. Your sense of identity, adjusting to a brand new life, a fresh baby that totally depends on you, your parenting ideas being challenged by your own people; you don’t feel heard or seen. Through therapy, we help you gain the tools and support you need to feel empowered, grounded, and ready for the parenting journey ahead.
Suramya and her team, as they understand that while you want to feel rewarded as a parent, you also want to feel in control of your parenting journey that sometimes gets challenged even by your own partner. We can help you work through it all. In fact, we run a special program for new parents who feel a total lack of anything couple-like, you end up feeling more like roommates on bad terms just raising your child and fighting over how to do everything else in life. Imagine, you get rid of all that spite, become more affectionate and feel the wins together of parenting and other great things in your life.
Navigating Parenthood
At any stage of your child’s life, parenthood is both rewarding and overwhelming, well, mostly overwhelming. Whether it’s managing the high demands of raising young children, balancing work and family life, or coping with parenting stress, therapy offers a supportive space to explore the emotional and psychological challenges of parenthood. Our therapists at Mississauga Psychotherapy Centre understand the sensitivity of your situation and how you only want to do the best for your family but at what expense and that is what we wish to explore. We work with parents to address issues that can arise from being a caregiver, such as anxiety, guilt, and burnout, and help parents develop coping strategies to encourage better self-care and rebuild balance in your lives. Through research based therapy, we help you become more resilient and confident, leading to a more fulfilling family dynamic.
Mom Guilt
Guilt was enough and then we went ahead and recognized cultural guilt, religious guilt and mother of all, MOM Guilt. This feeling of guilt among mothers stems from the belief they aren’t meeting societal expectations or their own high standards as parents. It can present in many ways, including feelings of inadequacy, shame, or anxiety about work-life balance, not spending enough time with your children, or feeling that you’re not doing enough.
We validate your objective to provide the best for your children. Our therapists who hold significant experience and training to help with complex emotions and confusing objectives, can help you identify the root causes of your guilt and challenge preconceived, perfectionistic notions of what it means to be a parent. We work through these thoughts and foster self-compassion as you navigate through the parenting journey. You will be a better parent without that guilt.
Relationship Issues
Not simply reserved for couples in crisis. In fact, at any stage in a relationship, therapy can be an effective tool to help couples overcome obstacles they may face in a relationship and understand and connect with each other on a deeper level. The professionals at Mississauga Psychotherapy Centre come with specialized equipment and training to work with couples in a judgement-free, competition free environment to improve communication, resolve underlying conflicts, and strengthen conflict management, helping you to realise your true power-couple potential. Listen, there are always going to be problems, you can become an expert at managing them.
Stress Management
Stress is a natural part of life, but chronic stress can have lasting impacts on mental and physical health. All you need are the right tools to make stress your ally because that is what we actually need to thrive. Our therapists, with their expertise and training, can help you identify and address the underlying causes of your stress, whether they stem from work, school, relationships, or other external pressures, and develop healthy coping mechanisms for effective stress management. We take an individualised approach tailored to your needs, so you can effectively retake control of your life, reduce the impact of stress, and regain your balance.
School Refusal
School refusal is not merely “acting out”, and can in fact come from a vast array of emotional and psychological challenges, such as anxiety, depression, bullying, or academic pressure. This behaviour is often a symptom of other underlying issues that need further attention. We provide a safe and supportive environment for children and parents to explore these issues and develop effective strategies to address them, fostering an atmosphere that encourages building the confidence your child needs to ease the transition to return to school.
Immigrant challenges
Coming to a new country and immersing yourself in the culture can be as daunting as it is exciting, and it can be hard to navigate the emotional and psychological challenges of immigration. At Mississauga Psychotherapy Centre, most of our therapists have the lived experience of being an immigrant on top of their training to provide a safe, non-judgemental space for newcomers to open up about these feeling, process trauma, and develop coping strategies to better manage the anxiety that comes with such a large transition. Additionally, we are culturally sensitive and understand how that can set the tone of your emotions. We have had our journey, we can help you with yours.