Welcome to Branching Out Mental Health Services. If you are new here and not sure where to start book a FREE 30 minute Discovery Call with Tabi. She will discuss with you the Mental Health and Wellness Services offered here and together you will be able to find supports for your current needs. We believe in meeting people where they are and fostering a safe and supportive environment for healing and growth.

Neurodiverse men can face a distinct set of challenges that can significantly impact their mental health. These challenges may include difficulties with social interactions, sensory sensitivities, executive functioning, and emotional regulation. In addition, societal expectations and stereotypes surrounding masculinity can further escalate these struggles, leading to feelings of isolation, anxiety, and depression. Our Registered Social Service Workers strive to create a safe, open, judgement free space, welcoming you to freely discuss strengths and challenges while working towards self-care and building supports for daily life.

Living with a neuro diversity or disability means you process the world differently. Sometimes systems and routines are challenging to navigate; and having aligned support people to empower you to find ways to address activities of daily living with comfort and ease is essential. Life Skills Coaching is a supportive, relationship based way to have virtual check-ins with a coach who understands the unique challenges that neuro diverse people can face in their daily lives.

In this virtual hour you can explore barriers, strategies and solutions to challenges you are facing in community and home settings. You can set goals and have a support person to help you create a plan to reach your highest potential outcome! Your coach will co-create ideas with you about topics of YOUR CHOICE like: budgeting, scheduling, creating routine, hygiene or personal care, self-care, employment skills, getting involved in your community or self advocacy. There are times in all of our lives we need a coach in our corner to empower, support and mentor: we are here for you.

ADHD coaching is a specialized form of support designed to assist individuals with managing the challenges associated with ADHD. Coaches work collaboratively with clients to identify their unique strengths and weaknesses, and then tailor strategies to address specific areas of difficulty. Together you will develop enhanced executive functioning skills, improve time management, and develop effective strategies for organization and productivity.

The intersectionality between neurodiversity and addictions is acute. Often from years of masking, facing extreme accessibility barriers or being denied diagnosis or support can lead to the numbing behaviours of addiction. This is common and you are not alone. In addition, caregivers of people with brain differences can often face a huge amount of caregiver stress and also turn to substances. Although these dynamics can be tough to process and recover from – we believe it is possible to find healthier strategies to manage stress, anxiety and trauma. Be brave – reach out.

2SLGBTQ+ Expertise: At BOSS we have mental health practitioners who offer support and affirming care and counselling to individuals within the 2SLGBTQ+ community. Our practitioners with lived experience in the 2SLGBTQ+ community understand the intersectionality of identities and neurodiversity. Our practitioners are aware that a great deal of trauma can take place when a neurodivergent person is exploring and understanding their own sexuality. We are here to provide safe, trauma informed constructs that allow you to work through challenges and triumphs in space that honors who you are.

During a counselling session with one of our Registered Social Service Workers practitioners will work with you to address current struggles at a pace that is safe and comfortable for you. Our RSSW's have extensive knowledge and training in a variety of formats like Talk Therapy, Narrative, CBT Informed and DBT Informed. Our RSSW's are here to support with, but not limited to, health care systems trauma, grief and bereavement, anxiety, emotional regulation, self esteem/self confidence, conflict resolution and disability awareness. Some of the techniques and constructs used are:

Anger Management (Emotional Regulation)
ABC’s (Activating event, Beliefs, Consequences)
Where we learn our anger style from
Identifying types of anger given context (explosive or passive)
Becoming Assertive
Self-Reflection / regulation
Trigger Warning signs
Anger responses
Becoming mindful
Action and addressing the feelings
Maintenance
Relapse prevention
Goal Setting and Action Plan Making (Follow Up)

As a human services professional you are supporting a lot of people - but who's supporting you?

In a full hour zoom session meet with Kim to discuss how YOU are doing in your work with clients, work through sticky issues you are encountering in your practice/ role and process techniques and strategies to better take care of yourself.

Part of an ethical practice is examining your own stuck points and tensions. Kim takes a trauma informed approach to be a safe container for the unique needs of human services professionals. As a human services professional herself, Kim has a deep understanding of the layered and complex situations we can find ourselves in at work and volunteering.

Kim will make space for co-creation of strategies to support your work or simply be a listening ear and safe place.

Join facilitators Sara and Kim in a journey into learning, new ideas and inspiration. Our workshops can be done in person or on a virtual platform with your teams, to family groups, businesses and municipalities. We also love to work with educational institutions like high schools, colleges and universities to enrich curriculum with our niche material. Whether you are looking to expand your business to be more inclusive, provide relevant training that supports your teams or enhance your clinical work with people with neuro diversities we would love to engage with you.

Once you learn with us, you will never look at the world in the same way! Come to our workshops expecting to think outside the box, open new conceptual doors and leave with a liberation mindset.

Please reach out to talk about all the possibilities and opportunities.