Mental Health Counselling & Psychotherapy Services

Mood Disorders: Conditions affecting emotional state, like depression, bipolar disorder, causing extreme mood swings.

• Bipolar Disorder: Involves extreme mood swings, from mania to depression
• Cyclothymic Disorder: A mild form of bipolar disorder with periods of hypomania and depression
• Major Depressive Disorder (MDD): Characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and loss of interest in activities
• Mood Disorder Due to Medical Condition: Mood symptoms caused by a medical condition or treatment
• Persistent Depressive Disorder (PDD): A chronic form of depression that lasts for years
• Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD): Severe mood symptoms related to menstrual cycle
• Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Depression that occurs during specific seasons, typically winter
• Substance-Induced Mood Disorder: Mood symptoms caused by substance use or withdrawal

Anxiety & Fear-Related Disorders: Excessive fear, anxiety, or avoidance, like phobias, panic disorder, social anxiety.

• Agoraphobia: Fear of being in public places or situations where escape might be difficult
• Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD): Excessive and persistent worry about everyday things, even when there's no apparent reason to worry
• Health Anxiety / Illness Anxiety Disorder (Hypochondriasis): Excessive worry about having a serious illness, despite medical reassurance
• Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Recurring, intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions)
• Overthinking & Rumination Patterns: Persistent and excessive thinking about problems or worries
• Panic Attacks / Panic Disorder: Recurring panic attacks, often with intense fear or discomfort
• Phobias & Specific Phobias (heights, driving, flying, blood, medical procedures): Irrational fears of specific objects, situations, or activities, such as heights, driving, flying, blood, or medical procedures
• Separation Anxiety Disorder: Excessive fear or anxiety about separation from attachment figures
• Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia): Fear of social situations due to feelings of embarrassment or judgment
• Stress & Adjustment-Related Concerns - Adjustment Disorder: Difficulty adjusting to significant life changes or stressors, leading to anxiety, depression, or other symptoms

Trauma & Stressor-Related Disorders: Responses to traumatic events, like PTSD, acute stress disorder, adjustment disorders.

• Acute Stress Disorder: Symptoms following a traumatic event, similar to PTSD but shorter duration
• Adjustment Disorder: Difficulty adjusting to significant life changes or stressors, leading to anxiety, depression, or other symptoms
• Childhood Trauma: Traumatic experiences in childhood, such as abuse, neglect, or loss, that can impact development and relationships
• Complex PTSD (CPTSD): Results from prolonged, repeated trauma, often involving interpersonal harm.Symptoms include emotional dysregulation, dissociation, and complex trauma symptoms.Can impact identity, relationships, and overall functioning
• Complex Trauma: Symptoms resulting from prolonged and repeated trauma, such as emotional abuse or neglect
• Developmental Trauma: Trauma that occurs during critical periods of development, such as early childhood or adolescence, and can impact emotional, social, and cognitive development
• Dissociative Disorders: Disconnection from thoughts, feelings, or experiences, often resulting from trauma
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Symptoms following a traumatic event, including flashbacks, nightmares, and avoidance behaviors
• Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD): Difficulty forming healthy relationships due to early trauma or neglect
• Survival Responses: Fight, flight, or freeze responses, Hyperarousal, Dissociation
• Trauma-Related Symptoms: Hypervigilance, Avoidance behaviors, Intrusive memories, Emotional numbing, Increased arousal

Somatic & Psychosomatic Disorders: Physical symptoms linked to psychological distress, like somatic symptom disorder, conversion disorder.

• Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Preoccupation with a perceived flaw in appearance, causing significant distress or impairment
• Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Disorder): Neurological symptoms (e.g., weakness, tremors) that can't be explained by a medical condition
• Factitious Disorder: Falsifying or inducing physical or psychological symptoms, often to gain attention or sympathy
• Illness Anxiety Disorder: Excessive worry about having a serious illness, despite little or no medical evidence
• Pain Disorder: Chronic pain that's not fully explained by a medical condition, often with significant emotional distress
• Somatic Symptom Disorder: Excessive thoughts, feelings, or behaviors related to physical symptoms, causing significant distress or impairment
• Somatization Disorder: Multiple, recurrent physical complaints (e.g., pain, fatigue) with no clear medical cause

Psychotic Disorders: Distorted reality, hallucinations, delusions, like schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder.

• Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome: Mild psychotic symptoms, often seen as a precursor to psychotic disorders
• Bipolar Disorder with Psychotic Features: Bipolar disorder with hallucinations or delusions during mood episodes
• Brief Psychotic Disorder: Sudden, brief episode of psychotic symptoms (e.g., hallucinations, delusions)
• Delusional Disorder: Persistent delusions, often with no other psychotic symptoms
• Major Depressive Disorder with Psychotic Features: Depression with hallucinations or delusions
• Postpartum Psychosis: Severe psychotic episode after childbirth, often with hallucinations or delusions
• Psychotic Disorder Due to Another Medical Condition: Psychotic symptoms caused by a medical condition (e.g., brain tumor, infection)
• Schizoaffective Disorder: Combination of schizophrenia symptoms and mood disorder symptoms (depression or mania)
• Schizophrenia: Chronic psychotic disorder with hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and negative symptoms
• Schizophreniform Disorder: Schizophrenia-like symptoms lasting less than 6 months
• Shared Psychotic Disorder (Folie à Deux): Psychotic symptoms develop in a person influenced by someone with a psychotic disorder
• Substance/Medication-Induced Psychotic Disorder: Psychotic symptoms caused by substance use or medication

Personality Disorders: Enduring patterns of thought and behavior, like borderline, narcissistic, antisocial personality disorder.

• Avoidant Personality Disorder (AvPD): Characterized by social avoidance, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to criticism. Individuals with AvPD may struggle with intimacy, trust, and self-esteem.
• Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): Characterized by unstable emotions, impulsive behavior, and intense relationships. Individuals with BPD may experience emotional dysregulation, fear of abandonment, and self-destructive tendencies.
• Dependent Personality Disorder: Characterized by a pervasive need to be taken care of, clitical thinking, and a fear of abandonment. Individuals with Dependent Personality Disorder may struggle with decision-making, self-confidence, and assertiveness.
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD): Marked by grandiosity, a need for admiration, and a lack of empathy. Individuals with NPD may exhibit arrogance, entitlement, and a tendency to exploit others for personal gain.
• Obsessive–Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD): Marked by a preoccupation with order, control, and perfectionism. Individuals with OCPD may exhibit rigidity, a need for control, and a tendency to be overly critical.
• Other Personality Disorders: Marked by pervasive distrust, suspiciousness, and a tendency to perceive threats. Individuals with Paranoid Personality Disorder may exhibit hostility, defensiveness, and a lack of empathy.
• Paranoid Personality Disorder: This category includes other specified personality disorders, such as: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Schizoid Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorde

Eating & Body-Related Disorders: Disturbed eating habits or body image, like anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder.

• Anorexia Nervosa: Restrictive eating, leading to significantly low body weight, with fear of gaining weight
• Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID): Lack of interest in eating or avoidance of certain foods, leading to inadequate nutrition
• Binge Eating Disorder: Recurring episodes of excessive food consumption, often with feelings of guilt or shame
• Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Preoccupation with a perceived flaw in appearance, causing significant distress
• Bulimia Nervosa: Recurring episodes of binge eating, followed by purging or compensatory behaviors
• Muscle Dysmorphia: Preoccupation with being insufficiently muscular, often leading to excessive exercise or steroid use
• Orthorexia Nervosa: Unhealthy obsession with healthy eating, leading to restrictive eating and social isolation (not officially recognized)
• Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OSFED): Eating disorders that don't meet full criteria for other specific disorders
• Pica: Eating non-food substances, often with potential health risks
• Purging Disorder: Recurring purging behaviors (e.g., vomiting, laxatives) without binge eating
• Rumination Disorder: Regurgitation and re-swallowed food, often with weight loss or malnutrition

Behavioural & Impulse-Control Disorders: Trouble controlling actions, like kleptomania, pyromania, intermittent explosive disorder. n

• Anger Disorder: Difficulty managing anger, leading to aggressive behavior or outbursts
• Conduct Disorder: Persistent pattern of behavior that violates rights of others or societal norms, often involving aggression or destruction
• Disruptive Behaviour Disorder: Persistent pattern of behavior that disrupts daily life, often involving aggression, defiance, or impulsivity
• Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD): Persistent irritability and temper outbursts, often with severe mood swings
• Excoriation (Skin-Picking Disorder): Recurring, compulsive behavior involving skin picking, often resulting in skin damage
• Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED): Recurrent outbursts of aggressive behavior, often disproportionate to the situation
• Kleptomania: Recurring inability to resist urges to steal, often without personal gain or motive
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD): Pattern of negative, hostile, and defiant behavior, often towards authority figures
• Pathological Gambling (Gambling Disorder): Persistent and problematic gambling behavior, despite negative consequences
• Pyromania: Recurring, impulsive behavior involving setting fires, often without clear motive
• Trichotillomania (Hair-Pulling Disorder): Recurring, compulsive behavior involving hair pulling, often resulting in noticeable hair loss

Addiction & Habit-Related Conditions: Substance abuse or behavioral addictions, like gambling, internet addiction. n

• Alcohol Dependence: Physical or psychological dependence on alcohol
• Behavioural Addictions: Compulsive engagement in activities or habits that disrupt daily life, relationships, or well-being.
• Gambling: Compulsive gambling despite negative consequences
• Gaming: Excessive gaming, often affecting daily life
• Internet Addiction: Excessive internet use, affecting daily life
• Pornography Addiction: Compulsive viewing of pornography, often affecting relationships
• Compulsive Habits or Patterns: Repetitive behaviors (e.g., nail biting, skin picking) that interfere with daily life
• Substance Abuse/Drug Addiction: Dependence on substances like alcohol, opioids, or stimulants, leading to negative consequences

Self-Harm, Suicidality & Crisis Concerns: Intense emotional distress that may involve self-injury, suicidal thoughts, or psychological crises.

• Crisis & Distress Episodes: Acute emotional overwhelm requiring immediate support and stabilization
• Self-Harm Behaviours: Intentional injury to cope with emotional pain or distress
• Suicidal Thoughts / Suicidal Ideation: Thoughts about death or ending one’s life, ranging from passive to active

Sexual & Psychosexual Paraphilic Disorders: Unusual sexual interests causing distress, like pedophilia, exhibitionism.

• Exhibitionistic Disorder: Compulsion to expose genitals to unsuspecting people
• Fetishistic Disorder: Sexual arousal from non-genital body parts or objects
• Frotteuristic Disorder: Rubbing against others for sexual arousal
• Pedophilic Disorder: Sexual attraction to prepubescent children
• Sexual Masochism Disorder: Desire to be humiliated or hurt for sexual arousal
• Sexual Sadism Disorder: Inflicting pain or humiliation for sexual arousal
• Transvestic Disorder: Cross-dressing for sexual arousal
• Voyeuristic Disorder: Spying on others for sexual arousal

Other Psychiatric & Emotional Conditions: Conditions not fitting other categories, like adjustment disorders, dissociative disorders.

• Chronic Stress: Persistent stress affecting daily life
• Emotional Dysregulation: Difficulty managing emotions, leading to intense mood swings
• General Mental Health Counselling: Support for overall mental well-being
• Low Self-Esteem, Shame, Guilt Patterns: Negative self-perceptions and self-blame
• Mixed Anxiety & Depression: Co-occurring anxiety and depressive symptoms
• Other Psychiatric Disorders (with multidisciplinary support): Various conditions requiring multidisciplinary support

Gender Dysphoria: Distress due to mismatch between gender identity and assigned sex.

• Gender Dysphoria: Distress with one's sex or gender
• Hyper sexuality: Excessive preoccupation with sex
• Sexual Addiction: Compulsive sexual behavior

Neuro - Communication Disorders: Issues with communication, like stuttering, language disorders.

• Childhood-Onset Fluency Disorder (Stuttering): Difficulties with speech fluency, affecting communication
• Language Disorder: Difficulties with language acquisition, comprehension, or expression, affecting communication
• Speech Sound Disorder: Difficulties with speech sound production, affecting communication
• Dyslexia (Reading Disorder): Difficulties with reading, affecting academic performance
• Dyscalculia (Mathematics Disorder): Difficulties with mathematics, affecting academic performance
• Dysgraphia (Written Expression Disorder): ifficulties with written expression, affecting academic performance
• Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder: Difficulties with social communication, affecting relationships and interactions

Sexual Dysfunctions: Problems with sexual desire, arousal, or satisfaction, like erectile dysfunction, low libido.

• Delayed Ejaculation: Difficulty ejaculating
• Erectile Disorder: Difficulty achieving or maintaining erection
• Female Orgasmic Disorder: Difficulty achieving orgasm
• Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder: Lack of interest or arousal
• Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder: Pain during intercourse
• Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder: Low sexual desire
• Premature Ejaculation: Ejaculating too quickly

Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Conditions affecting development, like ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disabilities.

• ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder): Persistent pattern of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, affecting daily life and relationships
• Autism Spectrum Disorder – emotional/psychiatric support: Difficulties with social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication, and repetitive behaviors or interests
• Tourette’s & Tic Disorders :

Neuro - Motor Disorders: Problems with movement, like Tourette's syndrome, tic disorders.

• Developmental Coordination Disorder: Difficulties with motor skills, affecting daily life and activities
• Stereotypic Movement Disorder: Repetitive, purposeless movements, affecting daily life
• Tourette's Disorder (Tourette Syndrome): Vocal and motor tics, affecting daily life and relationships