What is Psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy is used in psychology to describe therapy provided by clinical psychologists. Psychotherapy is a structured approach to help people cope with mental disorders and emotional difficulties. In addition to improving life quality, psychotherapy can increase a person's well-being and meaningful recovery.


As clinical psychologists, we deliver therapy methods to help individuals build a healthy state of mind and feelings. Therapy is a collaborative treatment based on the rapport between a client and a psychologist. We provide a supportive and empathic environment that fosters experiential learning, emotional growth, self-awareness, capacity building, and recovery from psychological pain, mental blocks, relational impasse, and trauma.

What types of psychotherapy does Red River provide?

•    Individual therapy for children, adolescents and adults

•    Interpersonal therapy

•    Expressive and narrative therapies

•    Play therapy for children

•    Sand tray therapy


What should I expect?

What children and youth can expect:

Therapy with children and adolescents is a healing relationship that is different from its adult version. Children and youth often rely on playing and art-making activities to express themselves and share their experiences. Children and adolescents experience the world through their families, peers and play. Children and youth who attend psychotherapy can expect to spend time with their therapist playing, doing art, and engaging in hands-on activities.

What adults can expect:

Therapy is a healing relationship that fosters change through exploration and understanding of the dynamics underlying difficulties. Instead of simply managing symptoms, the goal is to treat the psychological causes. The therapist and client together engage in learning through experiences to facilitate meaningful recovery and rehabilitation. Changes first made in the therapeutic relationship can then generalize to other “real” relationships outside of therapy.

We provide counselling and assessment in:

• Depression

• Anxiety

• Relationship and Family Issues

• Self-Esteem

• Stress Management

• Adolescent/Teen Issues

• Women’s Issues

• Self-Harm

• Suicide

• Grief & Loss

• Healing from Abuse and Trauma

• Effects of Intergenerational trauma on First Nations and Métis communities

• Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

• Oppositional Defiant Disorder

• Learning Disorders

• Parenting

• Psychosocial difficulties 

• Emotional and behavioural difficulties

• Neurodevelopmental Disorders