STG Health Services
Anxiety Care
STG Health Services
Anxiety Care
Anxiety & Panic Care / FAQ
About anxiety treatment, six-session care, exposure, ADHD overlap, OCD, sleep and between-session practice.
It is the first step for every client. You complete a structured online screening for anxiety-related symptoms. A clinician reviews your results and you receive a brief written screening summary and a short follow-up call to discuss recommendations.
This is a screening and clinical review service, not a formal diagnostic assessment.
A non-refundable $40 screening fee applies after submission unless the screening is covered through an approved funding arrangement such as NIHB.
The fee covers the clinician review, the written summary and the follow-up call. It applies whether or not you continue to treatment with STG, and is non-refundable.
No.
You can enter the service based on what you are experiencing. Your clinician will help clarify the clinical pattern and appropriate treatment direction.
No.
The program includes pathways for panic, chronic worry, social/performance anxiety and anxiety-related perfectionism/avoidance.
Overthinking is not itself a diagnosis. It can describe several processes, including worry, rumination, reassurance seeking, obsessive thinking, perfectionistic review and indecision.
Treatment depends on what the thinking is doing and what keeps it going.
The first session focuses on what you want help with, how the problem affects your life, a recent example, the anxiety cycle, possible overlapping concerns and your initial treatment direction.
By the end of the session, you and your clinician should have a working explanation of what treatment will target.
The additional time allows room for both discussion and active intervention, including formulation, behavioural experiments, exposure planning and progress review.
Treatment begins with six sessions. Session 6 is a formal review rather than an automatic discharge point. Some clients finish at that stage. Others may benefit from additional sessions or another treatment pathway.
Exposure is used when avoidance is an important part of the problem and when it fits the treatment formulation. It is planned collaboratively.
Not every client receives the same form of exposure.
Treatment is collaborative.
Your clinician may encourage you to test anxiety-driven assumptions and approach difficult situations, but exercises should have a clear clinical rationale and be agreed together.
Tell your clinician. The important question is why it did not happen. The task may have been unclear, too large, avoided because of anxiety, forgotten, affected by ADHD/executive-function difficulties, or interrupted by circumstances.
That information helps improve treatment.
Yes.
ADHD and anxiety commonly require separate but coordinated consideration. The treatment plan should distinguish which difficulties are primarily anxiety-driven and which may relate to ADHD.
If obsessions and compulsions appear central, your clinician may recommend the SaskOCD pathway rather than treating them as ordinary worry.
Anxiety-related sleep difficulties can be addressed within treatment.
If chronic insomnia is a distinct major problem, dedicated CBT-I through SaskSleep may be recommended.
Trauma-related symptoms can overlap with anxiety.
When trauma is the main treatment target, a dedicated trauma-focused approach may be more appropriate.
Some health-related worry can be addressed within the program.
Dominant or complex health anxiety may require additional formulation or a different treatment approach.
Treatment should not simply continue indefinitely. Your clinician will reconsider the formulation, the intervention, possible overlapping conditions, the amount of behavioural practice, and whether another treatment pathway fits better.
No.
STG Anxiety & Panic Care is an outpatient counselling/psychotherapy service and is not designed to provide emergency or crisis response. If you are in crisis, call or text 9‑8‑8.
The first session is where the clinical pattern and treatment direction get clarified.
$40
Complete a structured screening for anxiety-related symptoms and receive:
A non-refundable $40 screening fee applies after submission unless the screening is covered through an approved funding arrangement such as NIHB. This is a screening and clinical review service, not a formal diagnostic assessment.