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Services: Family and Child Counselling | Blended Families Workshops and Program | Couple Therapy Program | Divorce Coach | Separated Families and Child Counselling | Individual Adult Counselling | Specialized Assistance

Family and Child Counselling

The Empowering Program for families and children -

Helps children and adolescents:

  • reduce anxiety
  • control anxiety
  • increase concentration
  • learn to cooperate
  • learn a method of win-win problem solving

    Assists parents to:

  • live in greater harmony and connectedness
  • find ways to resolve family issues
  • learn effective parenting skills and behaviour management
  • use their authority with wisdom

    Did You know..

    that if parents' stress is helped by 25%

    it causes a 65% increase in children's well-being

    Blended Families Workshops and Program

    Assists families with

  • lower stress and promote cooperation
  • builds relationships and creates harmony
  • facilitating transition to blended family life

    Couple Therapy Program

    Couples will learn how to:

  • practice problem solving strategies
  • develop specialized communication skills for listening, understanding and responding to each other
  • build deeper mutual support and intimacy

    Divorce Coach: part of team with collaborative family lawyers, and/or financial planners.

    A broken relationship can turn your world upside down and create tremendous pain and loneliness. Together with my support, compassion and skill as a divorce coach, you will regain your strength, rebuild your hopes and dreams, and begin to find peace again. In the collaborative process you will be empowered to make sound economic, legal, parental, and personal decisions which will benefit the whole family. I will assist you in this time of transition to create a new kind of harmony in your own life and your children's lives.

    ~Pat Kirchner M.S.W.,R.S.W.

  • This option for divorcing couples minimizes conflict and resolves disputes respectfully without going to court
  • In the adversary legal model, demoralization and court procedure add to the parents' stress and powerlessness, the collaborative way empowers the spouses to keep control of the process
  • Resolves disputes privately so that each person's personal and economic dignity is intact
  • Promotes a healthy parenting relationship and communication for the benefit of the child, places the needs of the children first, and minimized confusion for children
  • Helps people transform divorce from an ending to a beginning

    • Separated Families and Child Counselling

    The 'Focus on Recovery' Program for children and separated parents-

    Before taking the program:
  • the child is insecure, confused, irritable
  • the child worries or becomes easily frustrated
  • the child is more withdrawn socially
    		•  After taking the program:
  • the child is more secure and free
  • the child is more comfortable and less worried
  • the child balances loyalties and lives constructively in both homes

    • Parent or Parents

    • learn collaborative ideas to enable and support the child to be more comfortable in transitions to each home

    Individual Adult Counselling

    Adults benefit by:

    • reduction of stress and anxiety
    • support and guidance around grief or mood swings
    • developing increase confidence and awareness
    • learning effective coping strategies to manage difficult life situations

    Specialized Assistance

    Specialized help in the Empowering Program and the Focus on Recovery Program includes:

  • attention deficit disorder, Attention Deficit with Hyperactivity and temper problems
  • anxiety, self-esteem and mood issues
  • education and support with respect to medication
  • collaboration with other professionals (child psychiatrists, pediatricians and psychologists) as needed
  • mediation for separated parents to enhance cooperation

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