Shared from St. Joseph’s Care Group Behavioural Sciences Centre Newsletter
Psychotherapy Matters Virtual Clinic
Psychotherapy Matters is a virtual care system that connects psychotherapists and their clients with psychiatrists and family doctors. This service supports well-being and recovery through personable consultations delivered by client-centered psychiatrists.
Accessible support: You could receive a diagnosis and even medication recommendations or monitoring from the convenience of your therapist’s office.
Skip the wait: With their Virtual Physicians, PMVC works with your therapist, saving you excess commutes, appointments, and overall wait times
EFAP Complimentary Support Services
In addition to the traditional services offered in the EFAP, Behavioural Science Centre is now offering Complimentary Support Services to help you foster and maintain your personal and professional well-being. Our Complimentary Support Services are confidential, professional services that include, but are not limited to:
- Intake services
- Next-day single session services and system navigation
- Long-term supportive counselling
- Well-Being Check-ups
Our interns will start by providing a solution-orientated interview in order to collaboratively identify your concerns and a potential plan of action. Sessions will be approximately 50 minutes in length. From here you can choose to stay with the intern for additional sessions, or be referred to a core counsellor. Individuals will always have a choice as to whom they would like to see, and complimentary services do not count towards your allotted number of sessions annually.
What is a Well-Being Check-up?
You may go to the doctor to get regular checkups of your physical health, but what about your mental health? Everyone deals with tough times, but even happy events like a new job, a marriage, or a new baby can add stress. A well-being check up is much the same as a physical, but for your mind and can identify where stress is starting to take a toll on your overall mental health and well-being. The goal is to arm you with preventative strategies for managing and coping with stress.
This check-up takes roughly an hour to complete, with a short 20 min follow-up for your results. BSC staff will complete a questionnaire with you that reviews 10 domains of overall health and well being. Based on how you score yourself in these various domains, we will highlight what strategies you already use that work well, and navigate you with evidence based resources and tools in the areas you noted you would like some support.
The navigation is meant to take the guess work out of it for you. We have tried and tested many of the resources that are out there, and want to guide clients to tools that would be the best fit given their needs and goals.
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