Treatment for Anxiety
An anxiety disorder can develop in a number of ways. It is important for mental health professionals to develop targeted treatment for your anxiety.
Day Programs
Art
If you enjoy creative expression and art to work through emotional and psychological issues, this program is useful. You will find it easier to engage with others in more structured sessions. If you have art experience, more advanced techniques may be learned.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
This Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) program helps you to understand and change unhelpful thinking that may be negatively affecting your day-to-day life. CBT deals with the ‘here and now’ - how your current thoughts and behaviour affects you, now.
Exercise and graded exposure
This program promotes healthy living and aims to help you integrate both psychological and physical recovery. You will discuss nutrition, diet, exercise, balanced lifestyle, motivation, goal setting and mindfulness. Graded exposure will be incorporated via providing opportunities for experiences with external access to community services.
Successful Sleep
This is a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) based program to help people with sleep difficulties including chronic insomnia, interrupted sleep, sleep apnoea and related mental health conditions. You will keep sleep a sleep diary, to monitor your sleep for entire program, and track changes in you sleep after applying the skills you learn.
Relapse Prevention
North West Private delivers a program to help patients learn to be able to identify triggers, understand and build tools to prevent relapses.