Block Building Therapies

03/31/2026

Today is the final day of Brain Health Awareness Month — a reminder that it’s never too late to prioritize your mind. Here are just a few ways to practice healthy brain habits! 🧠

Sleep — Our CBTi Program aims to help clients struggling with insomnia to practice healthy sleep habits. 💤

Mental Health and Stress — Our Mental Health Programs support clients in engaging in activities that are meaningful to help through Behavioural Activation and Exposure Therapy. 💡

Social Connections — Maintaining social connections can be beneficial to our mental and cognitive health. 💬

Being Active and Taking Breaks — These points may seem opposite, but they work together! Similar to muscles, our brains strengthen through repeated use, but they also require rest to combat fatigue or burnout. At BBT, our Concussion Care and Neurorehabilitation Programs help clients with brain injuries reintegrate into their community and return to work, as well as providing education and support. 💪🏼

To learn more about our programs, visit www.blockbuilding.ca

03/23/2026

At Block Building Therapies, our mental health interventions include various therapies such as CBT, DBT, and ACT. All of these evidence-based therapies are designed to teach effective coping strategies and help clients incorporate learned skills in their everyday life.

While your therapist can help identify skills to work on (and as such, which intervention is most appropriate), it can be helpful to be informed on the key differences of each therapy focus.

🧠 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – addresses unhelpful thinking patterns, often focusing on current problems rather than past trauma.

🧘‍♀️ Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) – helps manage intense emotions and interpersonal relationships through skill-building modules.

❤️ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) – teaches clients to build resilience and live according to their personal values, accepting that hardships happen, but do not define us.

Please check out our newsletter for more information about each intervention.
To learn more about our mental health programs, visit www.blockbuilding.ca

03/20/2026

March 20th is International Day of Happiness – a day to highlight the importance of wellness and happiness as a fundamental human right. As occupational therapists, from small victories to celebrating milestones, we’re proud to support clients in participating in everyday activities that bring meaning and joy to life. ☀️

03/18/2026

This week is !

At BBT, we offer a Neurodiversity-Informed Occupational Therapy Program where OTs work with clients to co-create strategies to provide them with the tools and support they need to thrive in everyday life. We celebrate neurodivergence and work with clients to achieve their goals using their strengths, understanding that neurological differences are a natural part of human diversity.

For more information about our services, visit www.blockbuilding.ca

03/17/2026

Block Building Therapies now offers a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBTi) Program!

This program focuses on providing evidence-based cognitive, behavioural, and somatic interventions that can help clients with insomnia (difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep) improve their sleep.

The Occupational Therapist works with the client through topics including:
💤 Sleep and Insomnia Psychoeducation
- Learning about the main drivers of sleep: the Body Clock, Sleep Drive, and Arousal/Hyperarousal systems.

🧠 Cognitive Restructuring
- Changing the way we think about sleep to be more adaptive and helpful and decrease anxiety about sleep.

⏰ Sleep Scheduling Techniques
- These strategies are about temporarily decreasing time spent in bed to improve sleep efficiency, then gradually increasing time spent in bed to increase total sleep.

🌟 Stimulus Control Strategies
- Training the brain to associate the bed with sleep, not wakefulness, worry, anxiety or stress.

😴 Strategies to relax the body and quiet the mind to allow the sleep drive to take over.

🌙 Sleep Hygiene
- Environmental and habit tweaks to promote better sleep.

For clients with sleep difficulties related to nightmares, additional content may be added to help them proactively manage their nightmares to promote better sleep.

Typically, CBTi at Block Building Therapies will be conducted through focused and time-limited treatment, occurring over 5-6 weekly sessions. Clients will complete weekly sleep diaries to track their progress and inform how the CBTi principles will be applied.

Our CBTi Program is best suited for clients who are experiencing sleep-related challenges due to diagnoses including anxiety, depression, PTSD, chronic pain, or other diagnoses that may be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Visit www.blockbuilding.ca to learn more about our services!

03/08/2026

03/08/2026

Women are often praised for how much they can handle.

What they’re rarely encouraged to do is rest.

As International Women’s Day approaches, we’re reframing rest as what it really is: a mental health need — not a luxury, not a reward, and not a personal failure.
Women’s mental health improves when care, connection, and support are built into our communities, not when women are expected to carry everything alone.

Explore Strong Enough to Rest and learn more about why rest matters for mental health.

https://cmha.ca/rest/?utm_source=Facebook...

03/07/2026

02/25/2026

Shared Breath Pause

Connection can begin with a single breath — even when you’re alone.

Take one minute to pause with this practice.

Instructions:
• Sit comfortably and place one hand over your heart.
• Inhale slowly through your nose for a count of 4.
• As you exhale through your mouth for a count of 6, imagine that breath connecting you to others who are also pausing right now.
• With each exhale, silently think: I am connected, even in this moment.
• Repeat for one minute, letting your body soften with each breath.

You don’t have to feel perfectly calm. Just present is enough.

02/24/2026

Here’s what you need to know about disorders ⬇️

02/18/2026

Wellness includes who you feel safe with

Wellness isn’t just about habits — it’s also about relationships.

Who helps you feel grounded?

Who respects your boundaries?

Who lets you show up as you are?

Pay attention to the spaces and people that make your nervous system feel safer.

That’s not being picky — that’s being wise.
Healthy connection is a form of self-care.

02/18/2026