Individual & Family Counselling
Counselling is provided to individuals and families experiencing personal, social or familial difficulties. Through a research-based approach, the primary focus is on improving the quality of an individual's or family's functioning and life satisfaction. This service may involve enhancing established coping skills, learning new ones, or even coaching an individual through difficult times.
Mentoring For Children & Youth
Research has proven that mentoring can improve the quality of a child's life through building self-confidence and positive self-esteem. Our innovative mentoring program provides opportunities for skill development and healthy relationship building with a highly qualified, trained and experienced mentor. Mentors are specifically chosen to meet their unique needs. They act as role models, advocates, friends or someone simply to talk to, either one-to-one or in a group setting. The mentoring program also allows parents and care givers a chance to watch their children and youth build and learn skills geared towards healthy relationship building, personal development, school-based skills and other essential skills needed throughout life.
Social Skills Enrichment Training
This program is offered to children ages 4-14. In small interactive group sessions, children will learn many essential pro-social skills such as understanding and expressing feelings, conflict resolution and problem solving. Using a pro-active and cognitive-behavioural approach to learning, the sessions will enable children to build self confidence and develop satisfying relationships by enhancing skill proficiency in areas that foster social competency.
Anger Management Training
Anger control training is a group based skills development program that combines the cognitive and behavioural elements of direct therapy. This program provides specific training so that participants effectively reduce both anger arousal and thus aggressive behaviour. This program is available for both children and adults.
Teen Talk
Teen talk is a group mediated program lead by a qualified clinician. Youth between the ages of 15-17 will have opportunities to meet with other youth and discuss topics and issues that they face in their everyday adolescent lives. Topics may include: Stress and Coping, Self Esteem, Depression, Teen Dating, Peer Pressure and much more.
Teen Esteem
This program provides girls with information and strategies that focus on promoting a positive self esteem and healthy body image by developing acceptance of self and others. The girls will explore media, family and friends and their role in: personal perceptions; the relationship between self esteem and body image; the importance of healthy eating and an active lifestyle; and stress management.
Problem Solving Skills Training
Through the use of instructional lessons and activities, participants are taught a variety of self-directed procedures targeted at increasing their reflectiveness, problem identification and evaluation of potential solutions. Young people as well as adults are continually faced with conflict, stress and difficult choices. Therefore, the ability to problem solve is a necessary skill.
Time Management, Organization & Planning Skills Training
This exciting program provides participants with an understanding of how to efficiently organize their time and improve overall productivity. By developing effective goal-setting and prioritization skills and avoiding the pitfalls of common interruptions and procrastination, participants learn to better manage their time by setting realistic expectations, thereby accomplishing their desired goals.
