Child & Family Therapy
We get to know your child as a unique individual who exists in relation to their family, their school, peers, culture and community.
We involve caregivers from the beginning to help us best understand your family’s strengths, the challenges that you’re currently facing, and the hopes you hold for treatment.
We work collaboratively with you to create goals and a treatment plan that is tailored to your child’s and family’s needs. We recognize the importance of meeting children where they are, and use humour and play to keep them engaged. Often, children will find therapy to be fun!
Therapy is flexible and can involve caregiver sessions, caregiver-child sessions, family sessions and child-only sessions. It may be short- or long-term depending on your goals and our agreed upon approach of working together. We draw from a variety of evidenced based therapies and integrate them to best meet your goals. These include relational and attachment-based psychotherapies; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT); Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT).
Our approach
to therapy
Our areas
of expertise
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We help children with Separation Anxiety, Generalized Anxiety, Social Anxiety, and Phobias.
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We support highly sensitive kids (or as we call them “super feelers”). This includes children with emotional regulation concerns, high emotional sensitivity and sometimes physical sensitivities as well.
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We help children navigate stressful transitions and life events such as family restructuring- separation/divorce, new sliblings, school changes, peer group transitions, illness and death.
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We teach children skills to manage obsessions and compulsions related to OCD and tic related disorders.
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We help children improve relationships amongst siblings and family members. This work may involve family therapy, dyadic work (ie. parent-child work) or the integration of work between individuals in individual sessions.
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We help children navigate peer relationships and friendships. This may involve working on interpersonal skills and helping regain self confidence, as well as addressing bullying.
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We help children with ADHD as well as those undiagnosed but struggling with symptoms of ADHD, learn and develop executive functioning skills
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Parenting is tough! We help guide and coach parents to navigate parenting. This work can occur on it’s own or alongside your child’s therapy. We explore ways that you hope to parent, ways in which you were parented, parental “blocks”, and differing styles between caregivers. We help you parent in a way that aligns with your own values and your child’s needs.
Types of Psychological Assessments
Our Clinic Offers
Our clinic offers comprehensive psychological assessments, including psycho-educational, ADHD, ASD and clinical mental health assessments. If you are interested in an assessment please contact us and we will do our best to respond within three days.