Our Occupational Therapists use evidence-informed approaches.
This helps clients develop practical skills for managing symptoms, improving daily functioning, and building confidence in their ability to participate in everyday life.
Anxiety & Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Anxiety can affect far more than how you feel emotionally. It can interfere with concentration, sleep, energy, decision-making, work, relationships, and everyday activities.
Occupational Therapy can help you identify how anxiety is affecting your daily routines and develop practical strategies to manage symptoms and improve participation.
Interventions may include:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)-informed strategies
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)-informed strategies
- Mindfulness based relaxation strategies
- Identifying and modifying unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns
- Stress and anxiety management techniques
- Developing healthy routines and activity patterns
- Pacing and energy-management strategies
- Strategies for improving concentration and task completion
- Gradual re-engagement in activities that have been avoided because of anxiety
- Building confidence with work, social, household, and community activities
Depression & Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
Depression can make even familiar activities feel difficult. Changes in motivation, concentration, sleep, energy, and mood can significantly affect work, self-care, relationships, and participation in activities that once brought enjoyment.
Occupational Therapy focuses on helping you reconnect with meaningful activities while developing practical strategies to support day-to-day functioning.
Treatment may include:
- Activity scheduling and behavioural activation strategies
- Establishing sustainable daily routines
- Identifying barriers to participation
- CBT-informed coping strategies
- ACT-informed approaches
- Building routines around sleep, self-care, work, and leisure
- Developing strategies to manage fatigue and reduced motivation
- Gradually increasing participation in meaningful activities
- Supporting a sustainable return to work or school
Trauma-Informed Support
Traumatic experiences can affect how a person feels, thinks, behaves, and participates in everyday life. Occupational Therapy can help address the functional impact of trauma while creating a structured and supportive path toward increased participation.
Care is individualized to your needs, goals, and current level of functioning. Where appropriate and within the clinician’s training and scope, evidence-informed trauma approaches may be incorporated into treatment.
Our Focus
The goal is not simply to reduce symptoms. It is to help you build the skills and confidence needed to participate in the activities that matter to you — at home, at work, in your community, and in your personal life.