Michal Regev

Phone: 604-261-7209
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At least 10% of the adult population have had or will have Depression in their lifetime.
You cannot simply "snap out" of Depression, but psychotherapy can help you recover.
A combination of medication and psychotherapy is the most effective way to treat Depression.
Panic Attacks can be very scary and unpleasant, but they are not dangerous.
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy is the most effective way to treat Panic Disorder.
Postpartum Depression affects one in every 10 recently delivered women.
Postpartum Depression is a highly treatable condition.
OCD can be very distressing as well as debilitating, but there are effective treatments that can help.
OCD affects 2.5% of the population. This means that millions of people around the world suffer from this disorder.
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy can correct abnormalities in the brain that are implicated in OCD, Depression and Anxiety.
Learning to manage you Stress better can prove to be a remedy for a variety of health problems.
Marital Conflict negatively affects the emotional and physical well being of children.
Couples Therapy can be highly effective in alleviating marital conflict.
75% of _parents say that the Transition to parenthood was the most significant change in their lives.
The birth of a child often has a profound effect on the Marital Relationship.

Stress Management

The word stress has been used so often in the past two decades that it almost sounds redundant. The formal definition of stress, is a situation whereby the person perceives the demands of a situation to be larger than the resources that a person has. In simple words, stress is the feeling that one may not be able to cope with the demands of the situation he/she is facing. Everyone experiences stress. Whether it is work related, child-care related, financial or relationship related, or other, you cannot avoid it. Stress can emerge from either negative or positive experiences. For example, getting fired can be stressful, but so can getting married.

Stress comes from 3 basic sources: your body, your mind and the environment. Your body may be a source of stress when it is going through changes, such as adolescence, pregnancy, menopause, as a result of an accident, illness, lack of exercise or poor nutrition. The environment can be a source of stress when it requires you to adjust to things like noise, air pollution, extreme weather conditions, time pressure, etc. Finally, your thoughts may be a source of pressure, when you constantly try to make sense of your world and interpret it, in order to know how to react to it. Your mind continuously appraises the different situations you are in. This is a survival mechanism, which allows you to know when it is required to engage in a fight or flight response, i.e. to flee a situation or to fight an enemy in order to survive. Some people tend to appraise situations as stressful or dangerous even when most people would not. These people are prone to a stress response, i.e. feeling panicky, overwhelmed or altogether unwell.

It is important not to dismiss stress just because many of us experience it. Stress, especially when ongoing, has been found to be related to a variety of health problems, such as: hypertension, heart conditions, anxiety, reproductive problems, diabetes, and asthma, to name a few. Scientists now believe that stress may also accelerate the aging process. Moreover, feeling stressed out takes away from a sense of well-being.

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