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Structured recovery

Work towards recovery that fits your life and lasts beyond a break.

Therapy helps you understand what is keeping you exhausted and make manageable changes to rest, boundaries and the demands you face. We also work with mental overload and difficult emotions.

What this page explains

Recovery is more than rest

Rest can reduce acute strain, but durable recovery also requires changing the patterns and conditions that repeatedly consume capacity.

✓ Stabilize sleep and physiological recovery
✓ Reduce cognitive and emotional overload
✓ Change the patterns that recreate burnout
Private & confidential

Information is not shared without consent except where required by law

Secure video

Available across Saskatchewan

$225

Structured recovery · 60-minute session

No physician referral

No physician referral required to request care

Three treatment levels

We consider your health, habits and circumstances

Your treatment plan reflects your needs and may address several connected parts of your life.

Body and brain

Restore capacity

Sleep, pacing, settling after stress and rebuilding activity, with attention to medical conditions or medication that may be contributing.

Behaviour and emotion

Understand habits that keep pressure high

Perfectionism, over-responsibility, avoidance, rumination, emotional suppression and difficulty disengaging.

Work and environment

Make recovery sustainable

Boundaries, workload, role design, communication, leave or return-to-work planning and predictable pressure points.

When rest is not enough

Why exhaustion can return after a break

Temporary relief can be lost when the same demands and coping patterns return unchanged.

01

Capacity drops

Sustained demands exceed recovery and functioning becomes increasingly effortful.

02

A pause creates relief

Time off or reduced demands lower immediate activation and symptoms improve.

03

Old patterns resume

The person returns with the same workload, standards, boundaries and compensations.

04

Depletion returns

Relief is mistaken for recovery, and the cycle restarts with less reserve.

Treatment phases

Three phases to guide your recovery

Structured recovery sessions are $225 per 60 minutes, with individualized practice materials and scheduled progress reviews. The number and pace of sessions are agreed together; you do not need to buy a package. Enhanced sessions include a 60-minute appointment, up to 15 minutes of focused preparation and a brief written action plan. This option is agreed in advance and is available when that additional support is useful. Enhanced sessions are $350.

Phase 1

Stabilization plan

Choose where to begin, establish manageable sleep and rest routines, and plan how to pace yourself during demanding periods.

Phase 2

Understanding what keeps you exhausted

Explore the demands, surroundings, expectations and coping habits that keep pressure high and leave too little time to recover.

Phase 3

A plan for boundaries and ongoing recovery

Develop delegation and workload decisions, communication scripts, protected recovery, early-warning indicators and a plan for future peak-demand periods.

Methods used

What treatment may include

Your clinician chooses methods with you based on your concerns, goals and what we learn during treatment.

CBT

Work with beliefs that keep pressure high

Work with rigid standards, threat predictions, all-or-nothing rules and behaviours that keep pressure high.

ACT

Increase flexibility under pressure

Clarify values, reduce struggle with internal experiences and choose actions that are sustainable rather than merely urgent.

Applied planning

Translate insight into work decisions

Create concrete experiments around workload, communication, recovery, boundaries and role expectations.

Program fit

Clinical and practical questions

How long does treatment take?

Length depends on severity, overlap, goals and workplace context. A focused plan and review points are established rather than promising a fixed number of sessions.

Will treatment tell me to quit my job?

No. The purpose is to improve decision quality and functioning. Work changes are considered collaboratively and may range from small boundary changes to leave or role transition.

Can treatment coordinate with my physician?

Yes, with your consent and when clinically useful. Medical assessment remains important where physical illness, medication or severe sleep disruption may contribute.

Is this suitable while I am still working?

Often yes. Treatment can begin while working, on reduced duties, on leave or during staged return, depending on safety and capacity.

When you are ready

Recovery can mean having more energy for daily life and a clearer sense of what needs to change.

A confidential intake can clarify the treatment focus and whether the program fits your current needs.