Intensive Treatment Program
Treatment services tailored to your unique needs integrated within weekly individual therapy sessions; coached calls, and group therapy
Evidence-Based Treatment
Combination of CBT skills, symptom management, values-integration, emotional resilience, motivation, & building healthy supports.
Intensive Care to Meet Your Needs
Treatment plans that go beyond the usual therapy model with individual therapy sessions, coached calls, and group therapy
Compassionate Care
Care is aimed at fostering emotional healing, resilience, and well-being through the cultivation of compassion.
Personalized Holistic Care
OICBT addresses the whole person, considering physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions, and tailoring interventions to meet a client’s unique needs and circumstances. We embrace an inclusive client-centered care that integrates a variety of modalities and treatment interventions to support individuals in achieving optimal wellness aligned with their authentic self.
Stepped Care
Our intensive treatment program goes well beyond the standard service delivery model of a single, 1 hour weekly therapy session which can greatly underserve the needs of many clients who are struggling with severe and/or chronic difficulties. Our unique programming allows you to participate in a much higher “dose” of therapy in a shorter period of time to get you back into living a life that is meaningful to you.
Intensive Treatment Program
Our intensive treatment program is based on best-practice models for the treatment of severe anxiety disorders (social anxiety disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, and Agoraphobia), Mood Disorders (depression and bipolar), trauma-related disorders (including PTSD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Substance misuse, Eating Disorders, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder . This program is based on evidence-based CBT practice, motivational interviewing, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and emotional resilience skills. With these interventions, we aim to help you overcome your symptoms and impact on important life goals so they can feel empowered and re-engage in valued activities.
This is a comprehensive treatment program involving weekly individual therapy sessions, coach therapy sessions, group therapy, interpersonally-based sessions and/or family accommodation. Our team includes psychologists, social workers, behavioural therapists, and occupational therapists. Our intensive programs integrate a stepped-care approach, tailoring intensity level based on clients’ needs and progress.
Outline of the Intensive Treatment Program:
Clients are involved with the program anywhere between 3.5 hours/week to 11 hours/week, for an average of 12 weeks.
This program involves:
- A tailored case conceptualization and treatment plan based on your presenting issues and therapy/life goals.
- Weekly coached sessions (therapy sessions focused on the application of skills)
- Weekly individual therapy sessions with a primary therapist (therapy sessions with the lead therapist focused on treatment planning, progress, obstacles, and application of skills)
- Weekly Group Therapy: Emotions, Acceptance, and the Art of Coping.
- Aims of the Group Include:
- A review of the CBT model; how willingness & acceptance facilitate behavioural change aligned with our values; appropriately matching our coping to circumstances; impacts of behaviour on our mood and anxiety
- core principles of exposure therapy, emotional awareness, letting go of emotional suffering,
- opposite action to unpleasant emotions, distress tolerance, and tolerating uncertainty with compassionate action.
- Aims of the Group Include:
- Interpersonally-based sessions focusing on topics such as self-esteem and interpersonal patterns.
- Family can be integrated into treatment with the goal of helping them to recognize and interrupt compulsions through the active reduction of reassurance and accommodation behaviours
- Home and community-based visits can apply to target symptoms in the environments in which they interfere the most
Frequently Asked Questions: Intensive Treatment Program.
Understanding the difference between services can feel overwhelming. We are here to help! Please keep reading to see our answers to some common questions about our Intensive Treatment Program.
This maximizes the effectiveness of treatments by optimizing the frequency, timing, and intensity of service delivery.
All services are carefully selected and all are a required aspect of your care to allow you to best gain from treatment; however, the integration of Family into individual sessions is not a requirement.
This appointment is intended to review the functioning and policies within the Intensive Program (including a review of the consent form) to ensure the intensive program is aligned with your goals, and if applicable, schedule your treatment team
Yes, we have varying scheduling options (9-5 pm). Each treatment team does have a set schedule (typically across 3-4 days) that is maintained week to week.
For a list of all our service fees, please see our Current Fees page.
