Mental Health Therapy
What We Do
- Triage & Screening to assess appropriateness of patient for engaging in a self-management program
- Identifies & completes screening and measurement tools that are evidence-based/best practice to help guide treatment plans for patients with mental health components and psychosocial factors impacting pain/pain management
- May be up to 15 sessions for treatment of trauma or emotional dysregulation
- Develops & delivers group education sessions relevant to mental health & persistent pain
- Uses a variety of counselling models & approaches including
- CBT (cognitive-behavior therapy)
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Emotional regulation
What We Do Not Do
- Formalized assessments, return to work assessments, function assessments
- Addictions treatment
- Certain types of trauma-treatment as there are other community agencies dedicated to this and is outside of the scope of the PPP (ex. Processing past sexual abuse)