This specialized Women’s Mental Health Program provides assessment and short-term treatment for women experiencing anxiety and mood-related difficulties during reproductive life stages (such as menstrual cycle, pregnancy, postpartum and the menopausal transition).

Women can experience anxiety at each reproductive stage. The Reproductive Life Stages Program offers a combination of education, brief psychotherapy and medication, along with a multidisciplinary team approach, to assess and treat women and their partners. The care provided relates to mood and anxiety difficulties linked to pre-menstrual syndrome and pregnancy; postpartum depression, anxiety and psychosis; and peri-menopausal and post-menopausal psychological difficulties.

Services Provided
Assessment and treatment is provided for:

• premenstrual mood and anxiety difficulties
• mood and anxiety difficulties during pregnancy
• postpartum depression and anxiety
• peri-menopausal or post-menopausal depression and anxiety
• risks for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders

We are an interdisciplinary team of psychiatrists, mental health social workers and nurses who offer:

• individual therapy
• group therapy
• couple therapy
• treatment with medication

The program serves as a site for educating health-care providers and for conducting research to further understand mental health as it relates to women's reproductive life cycles.

Referral
A referral by a doctor or midwife is required. A client can call the number below to arrange a telephone pre-assessment with a nurse pending referral by their health-care practitioner.

Physicians and clinicians: Click here to download a copy of the Reproductive Life Stages referral form. Once completed, please fax to 416-323-6356.