Mental Health is mental well-being;
Your ability to overcome problems and flex as change happens.
Your comfort with social connections, and your ability to find purpose in your life.
At Alpine You can Optimize Your Mental Health in Two Ways
With Counselling and/or Direct Neurofeedback
With the right support and tools, anyone can live well and find meaning in their life, and work towards their goals.
We offer sessions in office, online or over the phone
We See Children 5+, Teens, Young Adults, Adults & Families For Counselling & Direct Neurofeedback
No Wait List, Book Now, In Person Sessions
Contact us today to be matched with the right counsellor for you.
We have 25 Very Experienced Counsellors To Help You
9:00 am – 8:00 pm Monday to Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Saturdays and 10:00am – 5:00pm Sundays.
Text or Call: 604-732-3930 …or… Email: info@alpinereply.ca
Hi Alpine Front Desk, ……. I want you and your colleagues to know how ridiculously and brutally efficient, professional, and welcoming you and everyone that we’ve been in contact with at Alpine have been! It’s incredible and I have been blown away (in only the most positive of ways, of course!). I’ve rarely had a customer/client experience as positive – in any context – like this one. Truly. And I’m a tough cookie when it comes to these things. I’ve copied Isabelle (counsellor) on this message, because this sentiment also very much applies to her, and I am hoping that she can convey my message of appreciation and satisfaction to the CEO of the clinic. D.V. 2 weeks ago.
Mental Health and You
‘Mental Health’ and ‘mental illness’ are often thought to mean the same thing, but they are not.
Everyone has mental health, just like everyone has health.
As the World Health Organization famously says, “There is no health without mental health.”
Over the course of a lifetime, not all people will experience a mental illness, but everyone will struggle or have a challenge with their mental well-being (i.e., their mental health) just like we all have challenges with our physical well-being from time to time.
Mental Health isn’t like an on/off switch. There are different degrees of health. People move on a continuum ranging from great or good health to so-so health to poor health to illness or disability.
Questions that are Often Asked:
“Why Can’t I Get Over My Anxiety, Depression or PTSD?”
“What’s with this constant tension?”
“Why do my Panic Attacks keep happening?”
Because it’s NOT All in Your Mind.
It is also in Your Nervous System.
To successfully treat Anxiety, Depression or PTSD and a number of other states, you MUST attend to your physiology as well as your psychology.
How we experience the events and people in our day-to-day life is based on how well our nervous system can respond.
When we are either stuck in the Freeze State, where we feel shutdown and overwhelmed – this is the depressed state.
OR stuck in the Fight or Flight State and feel “ON” and hyper-vigilant – this is the Anxiety state.
Then we can’t properly process the stimuli around us.
With PTSD you can be stuck in either state.
Mental Health Counselling
At the Alpine Clinic, our Counsellors understand the necessity to consider what happens in your body as well as in your mind.
We provide Counselling that helps address both the way, whatever is affecting you is trapped in the body and how it affects your mind in order to help you reclaim your sense of self-confidence and well-being.
Many of our clients combine Counselling with Direct Neurofeedback.
Mental Health and Direct Neurofeedback
Direct Neurofeedback is a brain technology that calms your brain and helps reset your nervous system.
You can think of Counselling as working on your mind, while the Direct Neurofeedback works on your brain.
By sending imperceptible micro-signals, to your brain, Direct Neurofeedback helps to get you out of stuck and frozen patterns of thinking and reacting.
Claire Maisonneuve, Director
Looking For Someone You Can Trust?
TESTIMONIAL – Dr. David Dyment MD, CCFP says,
“As a family physician in Burnaby B.C., I have been referring patients to Claire Maisonneuve for the past 27 years. The feedback I have received has been remarkable. She gets results and I would strongly recommend Ms Maisonneuve for anyone seeking couples or individual therapy.”
TESTIMONIAL – Dr. Karen Nordhal MD, says,
“I have sent my patients to the Alpine Counselling Clinic for over 20 years. Their approach to counselling has helped my patients with anxiety, depression as well as trauma related to ICBC accidents. I would highly recommend their services to my colleagues and patients.”
Our Team of 25 mental health specialists have helped clients make break-throughs in their lives for over 30 years.
#1 Anxiety and Stress Specialists in Vancouver since 1991
What Are You Looking For Help With?
Mental Health
Mental health means feeling good about who you are, having balance in your life and in your thinking, and responding constructively to life’s highs and lows.
Talking to a professional about what’s bothering you can really help.
Counsellors can help you by teaching you how to work through your issues and identify your “thinking traps.”
Thinking traps are unhelpful ways of thinking that make it difficult to problem-solve or handle different situations.
Mental Health Text or Call 604-732-3930
Transformational Therapies Used at the Alpine Clinic
IFS: Internal Family Systems
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing
BSP: Brainspotting
SP: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
EFT: Emotionally Focused Therapy
DBT: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
CBT: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
ACT: Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
And much more…
DIRECT NEUROFEEDBACK (DNF)
To help rest the Nervous System
A safe and easy brain technology to help you get to your stuck patterns of thinking and reacting
DNF works on your physiology to help you out of your fight/flight/freeze
Results are very quick and lasting
What is Direct Neurofeedback 5:48
Panic Attacks – what happened? 2:47
- – Anxiety, stress, panic, & depression reduced.
- – Calms the mind quickly.
- – Reduces mental tension.
- – Brain fog lifts – greater clarity.
- – Greater comfort in social situations.
- – Boosts confidence.
- – Sleep easy and long.
- – Energy improves.
- – Take more risks.
- – The brain learns how to function more optimally and continues to improve itself.
- – Results are exceptional.
- – Benefits are lasting.
Testimonial – Direct Neurofeedback
“After many years in business, I had suddenly developed some performance anxiety at work. I began feeling a great sense of nervousness over routine presentations and meetings. The problem became so challenging I started considering retirement, but didn’t want to. I am a skeptic at heart. When someone told me they would be sticking wires on my head and I’ll be better, I thought to myself “Ya, right!”. However, after about 10 sessions of Direct Neurofeedback, I went out and bought two new suits! I started feeling like I was “back in the game”. I have an improved sense of confidence again.” S.W.
Client Describing his Addiction and Overcoming the Underlying Anxiety.
From Addiction to Peace of Mind – a Testimonial.
Overcoming the underlying anxiety, with Direct Neurofeedback, that caused him to drink.
A Client’s Experience – getting her life back after some great difficulties.
Got my life back! – a Testimonial.
Describes how Direct Neurofeedback helped her get back on track after a major life crisis.
Claire Maisonneuve MA RCC
Director, Alpine Counselling Clinic
For over 30 years I have explored and implemented different approaches and strategies with my clients. My approach to therapy is holistic in that I address your issues from all aspects of your being, including your mind, body, emotions and spirit. I draw on years of work with advanced techniques of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, training in body centered therapies and on Psycho-spiritual principles. My methods are scientifically validated and evidenced based.
"I would like to give 10 stars."
"They did a great job for me. My anxiety, negative thoughts, stress are all manageable right now."
"My energy level has increased. My concentration is getting better. I am very happy."
"I highly recommend Claire and her team."
"Thank you Claire you changed my life."
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Mental Health Text or Call 604-732-3930