Services

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This meeting will allow us to assess what types of problems you are dealing with and how we can help. 

Assessments include an intake appointment with the Intake Coordinator.  

Mental health services begin with an intake with the clinician that will take your child's case.  

Intake appointments are for parents only.  

The length of this session can vary depending on the complexity of the case, and it is typically conducted virtually by phone.

• Proven effective in treating various issues in children, teens, and adults.
• A short-term treatment (between 8 – 20 sessions). 
• Teaches new skills to young clients and their parents. 
• Focuses on how thoughts, emotions, and behaviours are related. 
• Although emotions do come first, sometimes we need to help kids change a negative pattern of thinking.

• Individualized skill-building plans
• Reflects needs and priorities of individuals and their families.
• Targeted skills may include: daily living (e.g., domestic and self-care skills), school readiness (e.g., group skills and attention to task), academic skills, or other social skills.  
• Plans to reduce problematic behaviour (e.g., toileting, sleep)

• Helping parents to become active participants in the healing process by helping their child process emotions
• Improves efficacy of other direct interventions
• Respects the special bond and place parents have in being able to help there children
• Two or three  sessions are often reserved for parents to learn and practice this technique f

These assessments evaluate a child or adolescent’s cognitive, academic, behavioural and/or socialemotional functioning in order to identify the following, if appropriate:

• Learning Disabilities
• Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Mood and Anxiety Disorders
• Disruptive Behaviour Disorders
• Giftedness

These assessments focus solely on the child or teens cognitive ability, along with a measure of adaptive functioning.  The results allow us to determine eligibility for community services.