For all clients over 14-years-old, we will ask you to complete a brief questionnaire at every session. This takes about 30secs to 1min to complete. The questionnaire asks specifically about symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress and is intended to be a measure of a person's current distress. We hope to see your distress decrease across your sessions and your psychologist will track your results across your sessions to help better understand whether the treatment is having this effect.

 

If your distress decreases - fantastic! the therapy seems to be having the effect we would hope it would have. You and your psychologist can talk about what is working and how you can continue to maintain this progress. You might also start to talk about when you no longer need to continue with therapy. You would, of course, be welcome to return to therapy in the future.

 

If your distress doesn't change significantly after a few sessions - your psychologist will likely talk to you about how the therapy is going and whether it is having the effect you had hoped it would have. Together, you can discuss what could be changed about the therapy to improve your outcomes. You might also talk about whether there are other options for support or therapy that might be more likely to give you the outcome you had hoped.

 

If your distress increases - this may be due to external factors, but you would likely be having a discussion with your psychologist, similar to the one above, about what can be done to ensure the therapy has the best chance of being effective.