
Explore Therapies Tailored to Your Symptoms
Healing starts with understanding. Our clinicians use evidence-based approaches to help you navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions with clarity and confidence.
Choose the symptoms below that best describe what you’re experiencing to explore personalized, evidence-based treatments designed to support your healing and well-being.
Please note that this tool is educational, not diagnostic.
Anxiety
What It Feels Like
Anxiety is excessive worry, fear, or unease that disrupts daily life. It can feel like restlessness, racing heart, trouble focusing, or panic. While normal under stress, it becomes a disorder when persistent and overwhelming. Anxiety disorders are common and highly treatable.
Evidence-Based Treatment Options
• Psychological Assessment
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Accelerated Resolution Therapy
• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
• Physiotherapy Assessment
• Physiotherapy Treatments
• Therapeutic Yoga & Mindfulness
Chronic Pain
What It Feels Like
Chronic pain is persistent discomfort lasting over 3 months, often continuing after an injury heals or without clear cause. It can feel like aching, burning, stabbing, or throbbing in muscles, joints, or nerves. Unlike acute pain, it disrupts sleep, mood, and daily function. Chronic pain is common and manageable with the right approach.
Evidence-Based Treatment Options
• Psychological Assessment
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Mindfulness-Based Therapy
• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
• Physiotherapy Assessment
• Physiotherapy Treatments
• Therapeutic Yoga & Mindfulness
• Holistic Nutrition
Depression
What It Feels Like
Depression is a persistent low mood that lasts most of the day, nearly every day, for at least two weeks. It can feel like deep sadness, emptiness, hopelessness, or loss of interest in activities once enjoyed. Symptoms include fatigue, changes in sleep or appetite, trouble concentrating, and thoughts of worthlessness or death. Depression is common and highly treatable with the right support.
Evidence-Based Treatment Options
• Psychological Assessment
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Accelerated Resolution Therapy
• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
• Therapeutic Yoga & Mindfulness
• Holistic Nutrition
Diet/Nutrition Issues
What It Feels Like
Diet or nutrition issues involve persistent struggles with eating patterns, body image, or food relationships that harm physical or emotional health. It can feel like intense fear of weight gain, binge eating, restrictive rules, guilt after meals, or using food to cope with stress. These patterns often lead to fatigue, digestive problems, mood swings, or social withdrawal. Nutrition-related concerns are common and treatable with compassionate, evidence-based support.
Evidence-Based Treatment Options
• Psychological Assessment
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
• Holistic Nutrition
• Therapeutic Yoga & Mindfulness
Grief & Loss
What It Feels Like
Grief is the deep emotional response to losing someone or something meaningful; a loved one, relationship, health, or identity. It can feel like waves of sadness, emptiness, anger, guilt, or numbness that come and go unpredictably. Symptoms include tearfulness, loss of appetite or sleep, trouble focusing, or yearning for what was lost. Grief is a natural process, but prolonged or overwhelming grief is common and treatable with support.
Evidence-Based Treatment Options
• Grief Counselling
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Accelerated Resolution Therapy
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
• Therapeutic Yoga & Mindfulness
Mood Swings/Bipolar
What It Feels Like
Mood swings or bipolar disorder involve intense shifts between emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression). Manic phases feel like racing thoughts, little need for sleep, risky behavior, or grand ideas; depressive phases bring deep sadness, fatigue, and hopelessness. These cycles disrupt work, relationships, and safety. Bipolar disorder is lifelong but highly manageable with early treatment and support.
Evidence-Based Treatment Options
• Psychological Assessment
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Accelerated Resolution Therapy
• Therapeutic Yoga & Mindfulness
• Holistic Nutrition
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
What It Feels Like
OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) is marked by intrusive, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) that trigger intense anxiety, and repetitive behaviors or mental acts (compulsions) performed to neutralize that anxiety. It can feel like relentless doubt, fear of harm/contamination, or “stuck” mental loops, with rituals like checking, washing, or counting that temporarily relieve distress but dominate daily life. OCD is common, exhausting, and highly treatable with the right therapy.
Evidence-Based Treatment Options
• Psychological Assessment
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Accelerated Resolution Therapy
• Therapeutic Yoga & Mindfulness
Panic
What It Feels Like
Panic is a sudden, intense surge of fear or discomfort that peaks within minutes. It can feel like a racing heart, shortness of breath, chest pain, dizziness, trembling, or a terrifying sense of losing control or dying , even when there is no real danger. Episodes often strike without warning and may lead to avoiding places or situations. Panic attacks are common, frightening, but highly treatable.
Evidence-Based Treatment Options
• Psychological Assessment
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Accelerated Resolution Therapy
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
• Therapeutic Yoga & Mindfulness
Personality Disorders
What It Feels Like
Personality disorders involve enduring patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that deviate markedly from cultural expectations and cause distress or problems in relationships, work, or self-image. It can feel like intense emotional reactions, fear of abandonment, unstable sense of self, chronic emptiness, impulsivity, or rigid perfectionism that strain daily life. Symptoms often begin in adolescence and persist without help. Personality disorders are common, challenging, but treatable with specialized, consistent therapy.
Evidence-Based Treatment Options
• Psychological Assessment
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy
• Accelerated Resolution Therapy
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
• Therapeutic Yoga & Mindfulness
Phobia
What It Feels Like
A phobia is an intense, irrational fear of a specific object, situation, or activity (e.g., heights, flying, spiders, needles) that leads to immediate anxiety and active avoidance. It can feel like a racing heart, sweating, trembling, or overwhelming dread, even when the threat is minimal or imagined. The fear is disproportionate and disrupts daily life, work, or relationships. Phobias are common, highly treatable, and often resolved quickly with targeted therapy.
Evidence-Based Treatment Options
• Psychological Assessment
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Accelerated Resolution Therapy
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
• Therapeutic Yoga & Mindfulness
Physical Pain & Discomfort
What It Feels Like
Physical pain and discomfort involve persistent or recurring sensations of aching, burning, stabbing, tightness, or throbbing in muscles, joints, nerves, or organs. It can feel draining, unpredictable, or worsened by stress, movement, or weather. Symptoms include fatigue, sleep disruption, irritability, and reduced ability to work or enjoy life. Physical pain is common, often linked to emotional health, and manageable with integrated care.
Evidence-Based Treatment Options
• Psychological Assessment
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Accelerated Resolution Therapy
• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
• Physiotherapy Assessment
• Physiotherapy
• Therapeutic Yoga & Mindfulness
Relationship/Couples Issues
What It Feels Like
Relationship and couples issues involve recurring conflict, disconnection, or distress in intimate partnerships that erode trust, communication, or satisfaction. It can feel like constant arguments, emotional distance, walking on eggshells, jealousy, betrayal, or longing for closeness that’s missing. Symptoms include anxiety before interactions, resentment, loneliness despite being together, or fear the relationship won’t survive. Relationship struggles are common, deeply painful, and highly treatable with skilled support.
Evidence-Based Treatment Options
• Couples Therapy
• Accelerated Resolution Therapy
• Therapeutic Yoga & Mindfulness
Sleep Difficulties
What It Feels Like
Sleep difficulties involve persistent trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking too early, despite adequate opportunity for rest. It can feel like racing thoughts at bedtime, frequent night wakings, shallow or restless sleep, or waking unrefreshed. Symptoms include daytime fatigue, irritability, brain fog, low mood, and trouble focusing. Sleep problems are common, disrupt overall health, and highly treatable with behavioral and holistic strategies.
Evidence-Based Treatment Options
• Psychological Assessment
• CBT-I: Sleep and Insomnia Program
• Therapeutic Yoga & Mindfulness
• Holistic Nutrition
Stress
What It Feels Like
Stress is the body and mind’s response to overwhelming demands or threats, often feeling like constant pressure, tension, or being “on edge.” It can manifest as racing thoughts, irritability, muscle tightness, headaches, stomach upset, or difficulty relaxing. Chronic stress leads to exhaustion, poor focus, mood swings, and weakened immunity. Stress is universal, but when persistent, it’s highly treatable with practical tools and support.
Evidence-Based Treatment Options
• Psychological Assessment
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Accelerated Resolution Therapy
• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
• Therapeutic Yoga & Mindfulness
• Holistic Nutrition
Trauma/PTSD
What It Feels Like
Trauma or PTSD stems from exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or violence, including accidents, assault, abuse, or witnessing harm. It can feel like intrusive memories, flashbacks, nightmares, or intense distress at reminders. You may avoid people/places, feel emotionally numb, hypervigilant, or have exaggerated startle responses. Sleep, mood, and trust are often shattered. Trauma is deeply disruptive, but PTSD is highly treatable with trauma-focused therapy.
Evidence-Based Treatment Options
• Psychological Assessment
• Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Accelerated Resolution Therapy
• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
• Therapeutic Yoga & Mindfulness
• Holistic Nutrition




