Couples Counselling
Couples counselling has been shown to be effective in strengthening happy partnerships and supporting and repairing relationships that are troubled.
Within heterosexual marriages, almost one in every three Canadian couples (31%) divorce. The rate of divorce is slightly higher in remarriages, and same sex couples often face additional and unique obstacles in maintaining positive relationships.* Clearly couples face many challenges and obstacles in their efforts to stay together and counselling can improve their relationships, enhance communication, and help them deal more positively with issues such as finances, sexuality, extended family relationships, balancing work and family commitments and parenting or step-parenting.
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Individual Counselling
Individual counselling allows you to focus on particular issues that you may be struggling to resolve on your own. Counselling may be brief and solution focused, or may be needed over the longer term to cope with life stressors such as general
anxiety, relationship problems, depression, eating disorders, aging parents, separation/divorce, parenting or step-parenting concerns or employment issues. Individual counselling can help you develop a better self-image, adjust to changes in your life, and achieve personal growth.
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LGBT Counselling
Within this gay positive and strictly confidential setting, counselling for LGBT clients allows you to acknowledge and grow from the unique challenges in your life that are directly related to your sexual identity.
Same sex relationship problems, loneliness, depression, anxiety, gay parenting or step-parenting, isolation from your family and/or coworkers, Coming Out, and substance abuse are often presenting problems that individual, couple or group counselling can help you resolve. Pam is also a trained Divorce Coach and Child Specialist who works with same sex couples and/or parents who are undergoing a separation or divorce.
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Other Counselling
To be updated shortly.
Adolescent Counselling
Adolescent counselling is helpful for teens who are struggling to juggle family relationships, school, friendships, dating, sex, peer pressure, alcohol and drug use and a variety of other unique changes that teens face during their high school years.
Often teens are hesitant to seek out counselling because of a fear of being judged or concerns around the counselor maintaining their confidentiality in sessions, particularly with their parents. Pam’s relaxed approach with families puts teens at ease quickly, and allows both the teen and their parents to work together with Pam to create a plan that allows parents to receive and provide feedback regularly to Pam, but in such a way that the adolescent is still able to have privacy around what they talk about in sessions.
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Child Counselling
Children are experiencing increasing level of stress in their lives. This can limit them in achieving their full potential, negatively impact their relationships, decrease performance at school, and increase parent-child conflict at home.
Difficulties may include anxiety, depression, ADD-H or ADD, behaviour problems, family or peer difficulties, parental separation/divorce, eating disorders,obesity, bullying, or learning exceptions. Counselling can help children and teens learn valuable coping skills that will last throughout their lives.
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Play Therapy
Play therapy is particularly useful in engaging young children, those who struggle with verbal expression, or youth who do not want to participate in traditional ‘talk therapy’. Play Therapy uses the fact that play is the child’s natural medium of self-expression and taps into this to allow the child to be able to ‘play out’ his or her feelings and problems just as, in certain types of adult therapy, an individual ‘talks out’ his or her difficulties. Pam has over ten years of experience in play therapy.
Family Counselling
When someone in the family has a problem, it can affect the whole family. If you or someone in your family is experiencing problems with anger, mental or physical illness, depression, parent-child conflict, or other issues,
family counselling may provide the opportunity for all of you to move forward while supporting one another. Family counselling is an effective way to help all family members understand problems and make positive changes in their lives. * Source: Frederick and Hamel (1998) Canadian Marriage Statistics
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