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The Rising Strong™ Group
This group will help clients experience the interplay of educational learning and personal processing as they move through understandings of vulnerability, shame, shame resiliency, values, and what it means to create a sense of worthiness and a more meaningful and fulfilling life. This group takes place over one full weekend.
Stopping the stigma of suicide
There is a commonly held myth that people who talk about suicide are looking for attention and won’t actually do it. The truth is that people who think about suicide often feel like there is no other option, and they may be reaching out for help and support by talking about it.
Missing school to attend therapy
If you child is struggling with a mental health concern it is important to get her the help that she needs.
How can I help my child with social skills?
Social skills are the communication, problem-solving, decision making, self-management, and peer relation abilities that allow our children to initiate and maintain positive social relationships with others.
How to keep the “spark” alive in your relationship
What can be done to keep the “spark” alive in your relationship?
How do you know if your child is depressed?
Normal sadness is transient and usually goes away within a day or two. However, parents should be concerned when low mood is persistent (for more than two weeks) and begins to interfere with how their child thinks, feels and behaves on a daily basis.
What can I do to help my child with anxiety?
Everyone experiences anxiety from time to time. Life is stressful, and our bodies are designed to keep us safe by letting us know about potentially dangerous situations in the form of anxiety.
The foundation of a sound relationship: Friendship
Through their research Drs. John and Julie Gottman have identified the key factors involved in relationships that work and have developed the metaphor of The Sound Relationship House to conceptualize these factors.
Anxiety in children
Feelings of anxiousness are a typical reaction to daily stressors, however, for some kids worries can get out of control and start to cause problems.
Single session therapy for children and families
Single session therapy provides a way for parents to access the benefits of counselling for their child and family when finances and time are limited.
My child has a diagnosis, now what?
As a parent you are an expert on your child. You know when something doesn’t seem quite right.
Can a child psychologist help?
Growing up is hard work for both kids and parents. As a parent you want to ensure that your child’s emotional, social, and intellectual development is supported.
PTSD: How can therapy help?
Research indicates that a number of trauma focused psychotherapies such as trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR), prolonged exposure therapy, hypnotherapy and psychodynamic therapy are effective in treating PTSD.
What is PTSD?
In order to understand Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) it is important to first recognize and understand the key component that underlies it, trauma.