Groups & Workshops
Emotion Coaching. Young children experience emotion in big ways and sometimes this can create difficulties within a family. This workshop will guide parents toward becoming effective emotion coaches for their children. Learn strategies for building strong connections, and coping with difficult behaviours.
Anxiety Education. Learn how to recognize the signs and symptoms of anxiety in your child. Topics will include learning supportive strategies and guidelines to help your child cope day to day, and how to make improvements over time. This workshop focuses on teaching parents how to support children that are dealing with symptoms of anxiety. Helpful for parents of children of all ages. Group details here.
Child Therapeutic Groups
EmotoMasters. This is a workshop designed to help children with their big emotions. Children learn self-regulation skills and strategies. Through games, activities and guidance, the child learns appropriate ways to express their emotions. For children aged 7 to 10 years. Group details here.
Teen Therapeutic Groups
Reducing Anxiety & Depression. Learn skills for coping with anxiety and depression. The teen will learn about goal setting, mood tracking and active communication skills. For teens aged 13 to 18 years. Group details here.
Reducing Anxiety & Depression Bootcamp. This is a more intensive experience for learning strategies for coping with anxiety and depression. Teens will work on on goals in a supportive and flexible environment throughout the sessions. For teens aged 13 to 18 years. Group details here.
New Stories. A group designed to teach the teen how to look at their problems in a different way using a combination of individual writing and artistic expression activities. For teens aged 14 to 18 years who are dealing with various mental health concerns. Group details here.
DBT Skills Training. The goal of DBT skills training is to help clients learn to change behaviours, emotions and thoughts. In 4 different modules, teens and their parent learn strategies that help them change unwanted emotions, tolerate distress, and improve their relationships. Teens learn to establish a stable sense of self and to form fulfilling and stable relationships. Appropriate for ages 12 to 16 years. Group details here.
DBT Skills Training Groups. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a cognitive behavioural style of treatment that helps clients learn how to change behaviours, emotions, and thoughts that are causing them problems and distress. Read more about it.
There are four skills training modules:
1. Interpersonal Effectiveness. Teaches skills to more effectively set boundaries and ask for help/support, without damaging relationships or self-respect.
2. Emotion Regulation. Teaches clients why emotions are important, how to identify exactly what emotion you are feeling, how to change unwanted emotions, and how to reduce vulnerability to emotions.
3. Distress Tolerance. Teaches skills to help clients survive a crisis (extremely high distress), and teaches reality acceptance skills for when difficult circumstances are prolonged.