Psychological Services
1 | Individual Therapy
Individual therapy will allow you to discuss your unique difficulties in a warm, emotionally safe, and confidential setting. Therapy sessions are tailored to the specific challenges you may be facing and involve working collaboratively with Dr. Zalan to set and accomplish personalized treatment goals. Individual therapy plans can include but are not limited to: enhancing understanding and awareness of your experience, identifying how to change your relationship to unhelpful thoughts and feelings, coping strategies, activating a personal growth mindset, and creating new behavioural responses that help you to live a valued life.
Dr. Zalan provides evidenced based treatment, using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and integrating techniques from Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Using an integrated lens, Dr. Zalan will ensure that your treatment plan is tailored to your unique needs and preferences. To inquire about setting up a therapy session with Dr. Zalan, please click here.
2 | Couples Therapy
Couples therapy aims to help you and your partner improve the way you communicate, enhance emotional connection and intimacy, and overall improve commitment and trust in the relationship. This type of therapy will help you to: 1) gain better insight into the challenges you may be facing as a couple 2) develop tools and skills to approach relationship situations more adaptively and 3) develop a framework to discuss and work through challenging situations with the support of a trained clinician. Dr. Zalan works with couples using the Gottman Method and Emotion Focused Therapy. To inquire about setting up couples’ sessions with Dr. Zalan, please click here.
3 | Diagnostic Assessment
Diagnostic assessment involves a semi-structured clinical interview that will serve to comprehensively understand the mental health symptoms you are experiencing, and will evaluate if these symptoms meet criteria for diagnosis of a psychological disorder(s). This assessment process will also include supplementary psychological self-report measures (if applicable) as well as treatment recommendations provided by Dr. Zalan. Diagnostic assessments can be provided at the onset of treatment, or as a stand-alone psychological service.
4 | Consultation
Dr. Zalan provides professional consultation services to health care professionals related to therapeutic techniques (i.e. CBT) and/or specific clinical presentations (i.e. OCD).