Child & Adolescent Therapy
Our Therapeutic Approaches for Child and Adolescent Counselling
Your therapist will work with your child/teen to build a plan that pulls from their strengths to meet their therapeutic goals. The approach your therapist recommends may include:
Art Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
Executive Functioning Skills
Exposure and Response Prevention
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Grief Work
Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation Strategies
Play Therapy
Psychoeducation
Sandtray Therapy
Strengths-based Counselling
There is no problem too big or too small, and no child too young or too old to gain support.
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We are passionate about supporting parents through the early years with their children. Those toddler years sneak up fast and can be incredibly challenging. Therapy under the age of 4 primarily focuses on parent-only sessions to support you to build the tools and strategies you need to build strong relationships and help your little ones through their first waves of big feelings, challenging behaviours, and life changes.
We can support you to:
Develop a strong early attachment
Manage tantrums and big feelings
Navigate daycare transitions
Respond to challenging behaviours
Support early experiences of anxiety and fear
Support little ones through family changes
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People often ask us how old their child needs to be to begin therapy. The answer is that it is never too early to start! For children aged 4-6, therapy involves a lot of support from parents. You will join your child in their sessions, help them practice strategies at home, and plan parent-only sessions to grow your understanding of your child’s unique needs.
We can support your young child with:
ADHD strategies
Challenging Behaviours
Emotion regulation
Grief and Trauma
Fears and Worries
School transitions
Selective Mutism
Separation Anxiety
Sleep
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As children grow through their elementary school years, their engagement in therapy becomes more independent. They still need their parents to join for session check-ins, help them implement strategies at home, and help share their progress while they start to spend more of their time in sessions on their own.
At this stage, we support children with:
Anxiety, ADHD, OCD
Grief and Trauma
Emotion Regulation
Navigating life and family changes
Peer and sibling relationships
School stress
Self-esteem
Sleep
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The teen years bring many new challenges and exciting moments. Teens are seeking acceptance from their peers, growing their identity, and learning independence. It is not uncommon for conflict to arise between teens and their parents, for stress to rise, and self-esteem to plummet during these years. If your teen needs support, we are here to help them feel comfortable to explore their thoughts and emotions in the counselling space.
Through the teen years, we can support:
Anxiety, ADHD, OCD
Body image
Grief and Trauma
Identity formation
Navigating life changes
School stress and overwhelm
Depression, self-harm and thoughts of suicide
Self-esteem and identity formation
Sleep
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Early adulthood is all about navigating change. Whether moving away from home for the first time, starting a new job or school program, making new friends, or finding new interests, it is a time of new experiences and growth.
We can support young adults with:
Anxiety, ADHD, and OCD
Depression, self-harm and thoughts of suicide
Grief and Trauma
Identity formation
Navigating life changes
Peer and family conflict
School/work stress
Sleep
