Family Counselling

Family Counselling is intended to help caregivers explore their concerns about their child with a trained therapist. The goals of counselling services are to help your family get an understanding of your concerns and to enhance problem-solving skills; as well, to give your family an opportunity to learn effective ways to cope with any different challenges. It includes individual child therapy as well as trauma treatment services. Counselling may include parent coaching that helps parents create structure and routines for their children and teaches them effective behaviour management strategies.

Benefits of Family Counselling may include:

• Receiving help to define family goals
• Finding ways of achieving the goals and improving communication in your relationships
• Learning new information about your child’s personality or development
• Connecting or coordinating services with other community groups and activities
• Communicating with your child’s school or day care
• Learning more effective or useful parenting strategies
• Receiving an assessment to help with treatment planning (e.g., psychological assessment)
• Experiencing a safe place to talk about painful events that have affected your child

Access to this group is through Intake.