Taking Care of Your Mental and Emotional Health
About Behavioural Health
Behavioural health conditions are not only among the most common illnesses in any community, they can also have the most severe impact on our daily functions and quality of life. Like all health care consumers, people in need of behavioural health services represent every group you can possibly imagine—they’re our families and friends, our colleagues and neighbours.
Behavioural Health Services strives to address the diverse mental health needs of the communities we serve by providing a continuum of high-quality psychiatric services and behavioural health resources. These include outpatient services for people 18 years and older suffering from a variety of psychiatric disorders. Our services include new client evaluation, medication management, and psychotherapeutic evaluation and management.
Recognizing that behavioural health is a concern across the lifespan we partner with clients and families as we build for tomorrow’s community behavioural health needs.
Working collaboratively across the health care system, we aim to continually identify and create optimal treatment environments and options, providing the necessary mental health services that keep our communities healthy and improve lives.
Conditions We Treat
Anxiety disorders
Anxiety disorders are conditions in which the sufferer experiences extreme, often disabling, fear or anxiety. They can be understood as a pathological version of normal fear and are the most common of the mental disorders.
Mood disorders
Mood disorders, sometimes called affective disorders, refer to a category of mental health problems that include all types of depression and bipolar disorder.
Personality disorders
Personality disorders comprise a group of conditions in which sufferers display rigid and maladaptive thoughts, emotions, and behaviours that can often disrupt their personal, professional, and social lives.
Phobias
A phobia is an uncontrollable, irrational and persistent fear of a specific object, situation or activity. The fear experienced by people with phobias can be so great that some individuals go to extreme lengths to avoid the source of their fear.
Postpartum depression
Perinatal psychiatric disorders, including postpartum depression, are among the most common complications of childbearing. Postpartum depression is characterized by a moderate to severe depressive episode that a mother experiences after the birth of a child.
Related Programs & Services
Paediatric Behavioural Medicine
Paediatric Behavioural Medicine is a specialty that treats children and teens for a variety of mental health, emotional, behavioural, and school and family problems. Services include new patient evaluation, medication management, and psychotherapeutic evaluation and management.