What is Return-to-Work Therapy?
Return-to-work (RTW) therapy bridges clinical expertise with disability and workplace reintegration support.
When illness, injury, or disability leads to time away from work, recovery requires more than symptom relief. It takes a structured plan for reintegration, support for functional recovery, and collaboration with insurers, case managers, and healthcare providers.
Our return-to-work therapy services are designed to help clients manage the emotional, cognitive, and behavioural impacts of disability while rebuilding the capacity to succeed in the workplace.
What Makes Our RTW Therapy Different
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Functional Recovery, Not Just Symptom Reduction:
We focus on helping you rebuild the emotional, cognitive, and behavioural capacity needed to return to real-world job demands — not just reducing symptoms. -
Structured, Goal-Oriented, Time-Limited:
Each RTW plan is tailored, with defined objectives and milestones, so you and your care team can track progress and readiness. -
Integrated with Interdisciplinary Teams:
We collaborate with your broader recovery team — including occupational therapists, physicians, case managers, and insurers — to ensure coordinated care that supports your full return. -
Multilingual Access:
Services are offered in English, French, and Spanish, ensuring that therapy is accessible, culturally attuned, and inclusive.
Discover Pathways to Recovery
At Canadian Counselling Services, we understand that a successful return to work requires more than “feeling better.” It means being ready, emotionally, cognitively, and physically, to meet the demands of a job while sustaining health over the long term.
Our RTW counselling integrates trauma-focused therapies (EMDR, ART) with disability-focused strategies, such as pacing, workplace accommodations, and problem-solving around functional barriers. The result: clients don’t just go back to work, they go back prepared, confident, and supported.
Supporting Clients on Their Journey Back to Work
Multilingual Support
Holistic Return Plans
Tailored Therapy Sessions
Evidence-Based Trauma Treatment: EMDR & ART
We use specialized trauma therapies to address the root causes of work absence:
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) helps reprocess traumatic memories and reduce their emotional impact.
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ART (Accelerated Resolution Therapy) offers rapid relief from distressing memories, anxiety, and trauma symptoms.
These approaches help you regain focus, confidence, and readiness for the demands of your role.
Psychotherapy is primarily a talk-based therapy and is intended to help people improve and maintain their mental health and well-being. Registered Psychotherapists work with individuals, couples and families in individual and group settings. Psychotherapy occurs when the Registered Psychotherapist (RP) and client enter into a psychotherapeutic relationship where both work together to bring about positive change in the client’s thinking, feeling, behaviour and social functioning. Individuals usually seek psychotherapy when they have thoughts, feelings, moods and behaviours that are adversely affecting their day-to-day lives, relationships and the ability to enjoy life (CRPO Website).
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