Psychotherapy is a form of mental, emotional, somatic, and relational healthcare treatment, provided by a qualified mental health clinician. In Ontario, Canada, “Registered Psychotherapist” (RP) is the designation given to a fully licensed therapist by Ontario’s regulating body, called the CRPO (College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario).

Via rigorous regulatory practices, the CRPO exists to protect the public by ensuring that RPs are providing evidence-based ethical care to their clients. RPs are often trained to address a vast array of presenting symptoms, and many are also trained to address more specific presentations.

We encourage potential clients to become familiar with a therapist’s advertised areas of expertise, and if promising, to be in touch with the therapist for a brief, free consultation to see if the therapist is the right fit. 

Confidentiality is essential to the therapeutic process. It means that whatever you choose to share in therapy will be kept privately and securely by your therapist, according to a code of ethics and laws designed to protect your privacy.

In Ontario, the law protecting your privacy is called the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA). When you know that your personal information is being protected, it can create a sense of safety from which to share honestly.

If you wish, your therapist can share your personal health information with people important to you, but they will not do so without your written consent. There are a few exceptions to confidentiality, which your therapist will inform you of prior to engaging in therapy. 

Therapy begins with a chance for us to get to know each other. We will explore and seek to understand what is moving you to seek therapy, how you’ve tried to manage so far, and what you need to feel safe and supported (even if you might not know yet, which is very common).

By the end of our first session, we will make a loose blueprint together to guide our following sessions toward your hopes.

Each of our subsequent sessions will be intentionally tailored to address what feels most important to you.

As we move along, it is part of the therapy process to track how things are feeling and changing for you over time, to ensure you are getting what you need.

We believe that therapy can address anything from short-term and specific concerns, to longer-term and more complex work. Therapy can also be for personal growth—to amplify what already feels good, rather than focusing only on the hard stuff. 

Like most things that are meaningful and worthwhile in life, you can expect the therapy process to include some level of both benefit and risk.

After we meet together and begin to understand what brings you to therapy, we can decide together if the potential benefits of therapy seem to outweigh the potential risks.

For example, therapy almost always requires us to approach and experience challenging and sometimes painful or overwhelming feelings.

While this can feel risky, there is a deep well of research that confirms that engaging in this process with someone who can guide you through it can be immensely beneficial for your life—even freeing, and deeply healing.

With that said, and although research suggests benefits are likely, there is no guarantee that you will experience benefits. 

Length and frequency of therapy varies for several reasons, depending on things like severity of presenting concerns, capacity, goals, availability, and finance.

The most important thing to us is that you feel supported, which means that you get to decide how often and for how long we meet.

If you need help figuring out frequency and duration, we can help you find the sweet spot for your care. To give you an idea, research literature shows us that people tend to start noticing positive changes to their lives after anywhere between 6-20 sessions, but this is not an exact science.

For example, people seeking therapy to address the impact and effects of trauma tend to need comparatively more time (but not always!). Finally, and of course, you have the choice to start or stop therapy at any time.

Clinical supervision is a professional relationship in which an experienced or senior practitioner (supervisor) provides support, guidance, and feedback to a developing or junior practitioner (supervisee).

The purpose of clinical supervision is to undo clinical aloneness, promote professional growth, enhance clinical skills, ensure ethical practice, provide case consultation support, and foster the emotional wellness of the supervisee within their practice.

All relational systems (i.e. any configuration of interpersonal relationships that live or work together as an intentional group) inevitably experience collective stress or conflict.

Be it workplaces, businesses, management hierarchies, community groups, schools, religious communities, or other collectives, stress and mental health related challenges can create a sense of disconnection, low morale, and productivity-based dysfunction.

Lantern’s Consulting services are equipped to provide assessment, education, support, and hands-on navigation tools to relational systems experiencing these challenges.

This may seem like a wide-ranging offer, and it is! Every relational system is unique, and yet there are also evidence-based universalities to relational dynamics that can be trusted to foster positive change, regardless of their structure.

Drop us a line to see how we might be able to help.