Homewood Health

23/12/2025

As the holiday season begins, we’re sharing a "Winter Wellbeing Mental Health Series" designed to support emotional health during the colder months. Featuring Gabrielle Provencher, Homewood Health’s Director of Enhanced Mental Health Care & Workplace Support, this eight‑part series offers gentle, conversation‑driven guidance on navigating winter’s challenges and finding moments of connection, grounding, and renewal.

Watch the full series here:

https://ow.ly/JKn550XNO2P

22/12/2025

Holidays can throw off everything—especially your sleep.

Whether it’s stress, a racing mind, or disrupted routines, Homewood Therapy@Home’s REST group uses CBT-based tools to help improve sleep, calm intrusive thoughts, and reframe what’s keeping you awake.

Rest doesn’t have to be out of reach this season.
💤 Learn more or sign up here: https://ow.ly/BkRn50XAbTn

18/12/2025

When someone you love is living with depression, it can be hard to know what to say — or how to help.

Your presence, patience, and understanding can make a real difference. Sometimes, the most powerful support isn’t in finding the right words — it’s in simply being there.

Learn how to recognize the signs, listen with empathy, and offer support while caring for your own well-being, too.

🔗 Read the full article: https://ow.ly/njrj50XH26a

17/12/2025

The holiday season can feel overwhelming. Schedules get busier, expectations get heavier—and sometimes, your peace gets lost in the noise.

Homewood Therapy@Home’s ENLIGHTEN group offers guided mindfulness practices to help you stay grounded, present, and calm—through the holidays and beyond.

Make space for yourself this season.
🧘 Learn more or join today: https://ow.ly/5uij50XAbQi

15/12/2025

The holidays can bring joy, but they can also bring pressure.

From perfect plans to ideal outcomes, we often hold onto expectations that leave us feeling overwhelmed, disappointed, or disconnected.

Letting go doesn’t mean giving up. It means accepting what is, embracing flexibility, and treating ourselves with kindness when life doesn’t go as planned.

👉 Explore how releasing expectations can protect your mental well-being and help you find peace in the present moment on our YouTube channel: https://ow.ly/geiZ50XA6LZ

12/12/2025

On December 3, Homewood Health hosted the 2025 Geropsychiatry Community Education Program (GCEP) Conference.

Titled Strengthening Staff, Improving Safety, Enhancing Care, the conference brought together healthcare professionals and community partners to explore practical skills, empathy-driven approaches, and evidence-informed strategies to support older adults living with mental health, substance use, and neurocognitive challenges.

The day sparked meaningful conversations and shared learning, with insights aimed at strengthening care, improving safety, and supporting better outcomes for older adults across our communities.

We’re grateful to our Homewood contributors Dr. A. S. Luthra, Paula Frappier, and Jordana Sternberg, as well as external speakers Gail Elliott and Jane Keupfer, and members of the Waterloo Wellington Older Adult Council Substance Use Working Group, whose expertise and collaboration helped make the conference a success.

Thank you to everyone who participated and supported this important work

10/12/2025

Measurement-Based Care has been part of Homewood Health’s work for nearly a decade, beginning with a 2015 pilot supported by the Homewood Research Institute (HRI). Since then, our journey has expanded from paper-based tools to a national electronic platform that now supports more than 25,000 clients and 1,430 clinicians across 20 programs.

Homewood Touchpoint has helped clinicians understand client needs in real time, tailor treatment, identify trends, and strengthen outcomes across a wide range of conditions including substance use, anxiety, depression, trauma, and concurrent disorders.

Our recent MBC recognition is one milestone, but the foundation is the work our teams have built over years of innovation, research, and collaboration.

🔗 Read the full article from the Ontario Hospital Network: https://ow.ly/OJoR50XGZp9

Measurement-Based Care (MBC), a patient-centred approach powered by technology, is transforming the landscape of mental health care. MBC offers a significant leap forward in personalized treatment by making patients active participants in their recovery.

09/12/2025

The holidays can bring connection and joy — but they can also test our limits.

Setting healthy boundaries helps protect your energy, manage expectations, and create space for moments that truly matter.

This season, remember: saying no when you need to is an act of self-care, not selfishness. Boundaries allow you to show up with more presence, patience, and peace — for yourself and those you care about.

Learn how to identify and communicate your limits with confidence: 🔗 https://ow.ly/8AGU50XGts0

08/12/2025

We’re proud to share that Homewood Health has been named as a winner of Greenspace Health’s 2025 MBC Impact Awards for achieving one of the Highest Average Symptom Improvement rates across our clients using Measurement-Based Care.

This award highlights our commitment to using real-time outcome data to drive meaningful,
measurable change in client wellbeing. We also take this opportunity to acknowledge Homewood Research Institute (HRI), whose partnership helped lay the foundation for Measurement-Based Care at Homewood Health.

We’re honoured to be recognized alongside so many leaders in Measurement-Based Care.

See the full list of winners: https://ow.ly/4E5950XFMCv

04/12/2025

Artificial intelligence is changing the way we live and work, and many employees are wondering what it means for their mental health.

AI brings new opportunities, but it also introduces uncertainty, digital overload, and questions about trust and wellbeing.

Homewood Health’s new AI & Mental Health series explores these issues from multiple perspectives, including how leaders can guide teams through change and how employees can set healthy boundaries with AI tools.

As technology evolves, one thing stays the same: mental health care works best when it is grounded in real human connection.

🔗 Read the full article: https://ow.ly/rhwg50Xz7GX

Artificial intelligence is changing the way we live and work—but what does it mean for mental health?

03/12/2025

The holidays can bring joy—but also stress, grief, loneliness, and emotional overwhelm.

Whether you need help managing anxiety, improving sleep, regulating emotions, or simply talking through what you're feeling, Homewood Therapy@Home offers flexible, online therapy options to support you this season.

Group and individual programs. Evidence-based care. All from the comfort of your space.

✨ Learn more or register for counselling today: https://ow.ly/E3F950XAbN1

28/11/2025

Everyone deserves access to mental health care that feels supportive—not clinical.

Compassionate, evidence-based therapy should meet you where you are, without long waitlists or complicated systems. Homewood Therapy@Home delivers flexible, online counselling and group therapy programs built on connection, care, and real-world results.

💻 See what Homewood Therapy@Home is all about and explore programs built to support you: https://ow.ly/7shZ50XnfpY