Mental health and addictions support that meets your needs.
What Happens During a Consultation?
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What are you looking for?
Your journey begins with a thorough consultation to understand your history, goals, and current challenges. This allows us to create a safe, personalized, and informed foundation for care.
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Personalized suggestions.
Based on your intake, we provide tailored recommendations and approaches that fit your unique needs — whether that includes psychotherapy, integrative mental health support, addictions care, or advanced therapies like ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. The care plan might involve more specialized testing or referrals to specialists as deemed appropriate by the NP.
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Get Solutions.
Together, we implement the strategies and treatments that best support your healing and growth. Our approach is collaborative, guided, and focused on practical, sustainable results.
FAQs
How is Integrative Medicine Different?
Integrative medicine, often referred to as integrative or holistic medicine, combines conventional Western medicine with alternative or complementary therapies. The key difference lies in its approach, which focuses on treating the whole person—mind, body, and spirit—rather than just the symptoms of a specific ailment or disease.
Here are a few ways integrated medicine differs from conventional medicine:
Holistic Approach: Integrative medicine looks at the patient as a whole, considering their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. It aims to address the root causes of health issues rather than just treating symptoms.
Combination of Therapies: It incorporates various treatment modalities from both conventional medicine (such as medications, surgeries, and diagnostic procedures) and complementary approaches (like acupuncture, herbal medicine, massage therapy, mindfulness, yoga, etc.).
Personalized Care: Treatment plans are often tailored to the individual, taking into account their unique needs, preferences, and lifestyle.
Prevention and Wellness: Integrated medicine often emphasizes preventive measures and lifestyle changes to promote overall health and well-being, not just focusing on curing diseases.
Collaborative Approach: Practitioners in integrated medicine often work in interdisciplinary teams, collaborating across different specialties to provide comprehensive care.
Patient-Centered Care: The patient is actively involved in decision-making regarding their health, encouraged to take responsibility for their well-being and participate in their treatment plans.
Emphasis on Evidence-Based Practices: While some alternative therapies lack extensive scientific evidence, integrated medicine often seeks evidence-based complementary approaches that have proven effectiveness or show promise through research.
Mind-Body Connection: Integrated medicine acknowledges the interconnectedness of mental, emotional, and physical health, promoting therapies that address this mind-body relationship.
This approach can be beneficial for individuals seeking a more comprehensive and personalized approach to their health care. However, it's important to consult with qualified practitioners and discuss any integrated treatments with your primary care provider to ensure safety and effectiveness, particularly if combining treatments from different approaches.
Learn about Ketamine
What kind of Services do you provide?
Individual and Couples Counseling
We provide individual psychotherapy for adults in a safe, supportive environment. Sessions are designed to help you navigate life’s challenges, enhance self-awareness, and build resilience.
Integrative & Mind-Body Support
When appropriate, we complement psychotherapy with biofeedback to assist individuals who need additional mind-body regulation support, particularly when meditation or breath work are insufficient or unsuitable.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
We now offer ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for mental health, trauma, and addiction support. Please inquire during your session if you would like to explore this option.
Addictions & Integrative Care
Beyond psychotherapy, we provide integrative care for individuals navigating substance use or addiction recovery. Our approach combines clinical support, harm reduction, recovery planning, and psychotherapy to meet clients where they are and support sustainable change.
Why do we charge fees directly to patients?
Most private insurance providers locally cover our services with submission of a receipt!
While Nurse Practitioners in Ontario offer excellent access to fulsome services, they cannot directly bill OHIP for their time or services provided to patients. Therefore, we need to directly bill our patients for our time and overhead expenses. Any lab tests, referrals to specialists or diagnostic imaging is covered by OHIP.
We encourage everyone to contact our local MPP to advocate for Nurse Practitioners in Ontario to be included in OHIP insured services.
Can I email or text the clinic with medical questions?
I respect your privacy and want to provide the safest care possible, so clinical questions are only addressed during in-person or virtual sessions, not by text or email.
Given we are a small clinic without administrative support, we have made the decision to not to offer this service. We ask that if patients have any medical questions, require prescription refills or have questions about their care plan, that they book a follow up appointment with their NP.