People of all circumstances and walks of life seek psychotherapy. It can be helpful when there is a positive therapist-client relationship and a good fit.
Rockmanor Mental Health and Psychotherapy Service Information and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Rockmanor Mental Health and Psychotherapy offers the following care services:
Where are you located?
How might therapy feel with my psychotherapist?
Who does Rockmanor Mental Health and Psychotherapy help?
What are psychotherapy approaches are offered generally?
Do I need to have a diagnosis to be a client of Rockmanor Mental Health and Psychotherapy?
What could services be for?
What specific types of psychotherapy do you work with?
What specific issues does Rockmanor Mental Health and Psychotherapy support with the cognitive behavior therapy?
What conditions can be treated at Rockmanor Mental Health and Psychotherapy?
Why do people seek therapy at Rockmanor Mental Health and Psychotherapy aside from mental disorders?
Click here to learn about service exclusions and limitations
Note: The above list is not exhaustive/inclusive of all reasons why people may come to Rockmanor Mental Health and Psychotherapy
- Service for non-urgent, non-emergency needs
- 1:1 Individual psychotherapy
Where are you located?
- Presently servicing clients online.
- In-person appointments may resume after Spring 2026. We are mobile. Flexible appointment locations across Ottawa for in-person appointments.
How might therapy feel with my psychotherapist?
- Everyone reacts and experiences things differently in therapy, with different clinicians, and depending on their starting point. Making an appointment is the best way to find out more about your psychotherapist at this practice.
- The psychotherapist has been described by others to:
- express themselves in a manner that balances of emotional warmth and practical structure
- aims to provide support collaboratively, and guides people through self-awareness, empathy, and action
- recognizes the nuances of personality differences and offers nonjudgmental, flexible tools to support harmony with the self and others
- values respect, connection, and curiosity over assumption, empowering others with emotionally intelligent communication and modeling it in the therapy session
Who does Rockmanor Mental Health and Psychotherapy help?
- Emerging adults, adults 18+, older adults
- Click here for more information on client-therapist "fit" or "match" in this practice
What are psychotherapy approaches are offered generally?
- Cognitive behavior therapy integrated with other techniques, supportive psychotherapy, and psychoeducation tailored for your needs.
- This practice does not complete assessments or reports for external parties (e.g., for disability claims), governmental groups or agencies.
Do I need to have a diagnosis to be a client of Rockmanor Mental Health and Psychotherapy?
- No, you do not need to have a mental health diagnosis.
- However, your therapist may recommend this before you start therapy after your assessment, or in the course of psychotherapy if it is indicated.
- You may be asked to seek this on your own where you would find a treating professional who can confer a diagnosis/complete an assessment, or you may sometimes be provided a referral if you consent to this, and if a suitable provider is known to your therapist.
What could services be for?
- Services for individuals with existing clinical diagnoses
- Services for individuals with no formal clinical diagnoses
- Services for general mental health needs
- Services for resilience building
- Services for well-being needs
What specific types of psychotherapy do you work with?
- There are different types of and approaches to psychotherapy. Your psychotherapist will usually use relational, compassion-first cognitive behavior therapy. This could be integrated with the following additional types of psychotherapeutic techniques:
- Humanistic
- Motivational interviewing
- Person-centered
- Relational
- Strengths-based
- Positive psychotherapy
What specific issues does Rockmanor Mental Health and Psychotherapy support with the cognitive behavior therapy?
- General CBT tailored to your specific needs
- CBT for depression
- CBT for anxiety
- CBT for chronic pain
- CBT for complex cases
- CBT for moving (or transition to a new housing situation voluntarily or involuntarily/unexpected displacement)
What conditions can be treated at Rockmanor Mental Health and Psychotherapy?
- Complex cases
- Psychotherapy for individuals who have tried psychotherapy in the past with another regulated professional, but would like additional support
- Adjustment disorder
- Anxiety
- Behavioral Issues
- Chronic pain
- Communication
- Depression
- Dissociative Disorders (non-acute, persistent symptoms)
- Dual Diagnosis
- Emotion Regulation
- Grief, loss, bereavement
- Intellectual Disability
- Loneliness
- Mental Disorders
- Mood disorders
- Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymic Disorder)
- Psychosis (non-acute, persistent symptoms)
- Racial Identity
- Schizophrenia (non-acute, persistent symptoms)
- Self Esteem
- Stress
- Thinking Disorders
Why do people seek therapy at Rockmanor Mental Health and Psychotherapy aside from mental disorders?
- a desire to gain self-awareness
- a desire to find purpose and meaning
- a desire to feel a sense of clarity/deal with uncertainty
- dealing with a personal internal conflict
- a desire for a person to be seen and understood as their own person
- desiring expertise of an individual who is neutral/detached from a problem situation
- desire for knowledge or psychoeducation related to mental health and well-being
- desiring greater thinking flexibility (cognitive flexibility)
- wanting to live a better life (as defined by a person)
- wanting to know how to cope with an issue or several issues
- life transitions
- wanting to feel a greater sense of belonging
- desire help to make an important decision
- realizing a need to feel heard, validated, understood
- realizing a need to feel heard, validated, understood after a period of stress, difficult experience(s), chronic stress
- Needs that emerge alongside coping with:
- anxiety
- depression
- serious mental illness
- complex/multiple diagnoses associated with mental and/or physical health
- adults with developmental disorders such as autism and attention deficit disorder
- psychosis
- complex or complicated death/bereavement
Click here to learn about service exclusions and limitations
Note: The above list is not exhaustive/inclusive of all reasons why people may come to Rockmanor Mental Health and Psychotherapy
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Rockmanor Mental Health and Psychotherapy implements a positive psychology and strengths- oriented approach
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Services are person-centered, evidence-based, recovery-oriented and rights-respecting
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Rockmanor Mental Health and Psychotherapy is neuroscience-informed
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Self-referrals accepted
Healthcare professional referrals accepted
Online or in-person service in the English language
Healthcare professional referrals accepted
Online or in-person service in the English language
