Familes

Families are clusters of powerful relationships that include adults, parents, children and extended family over multiple generations.

In these complex and rapidly changing times, families can be challenged in many ways, whether it is about screen time, sibling conflict, time management, stress, parenting, adult sibling conflict, grandparenting, or finding time for each other.

Yet family is the foundation of our communities and always prevails – even through hardship. The love and commitment between family members (even when they are driving us crazy!) is unparalleled.

I provide therapeutic approaches to families that create opportunities for learning, restoring harmony and for the deeper conversations to happen.

Therapeutic Services

Separation and Divorce

Therapeutic Approaches

Over the years my therapeutic style has been influenced by many approaches. Here are some of the areas that have been most important:

  • Individual Life Span Development
  • Child Development
  • Family Development
  • Stepfamily Development
  • Family Systems
  • Family Therapies
  • Attachment theory
  • Play Therapy
  • Parent Education
  • Couple Communication
  • Domestic Violence Intervention
  • Conflict Resolution Approaches
  • Psychopathology
  • Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches
  • Solution-Oriented Therapies
  • Positive Psychology
  • Appreciative Inquiry
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Neurophysiology
  • Interpersonal Neurobiology
  • Trauma
  • Mind-Body Connections
  • EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique
  • Somatic techniques
  • Spiritual Counselling
  • Life Review
  • Resilience

Separation and Divorce Issues Addressed

I work with a variety of people and problems including:

  • emotional shock at receiving unexpected news
  • feeling lost and confused about which professional services are appropriate
  • planning the transition to two households
  • how to talk with your children about the separation/divorce
  • responding to the emotional needs of the children
  • working out parenting time
  • creating parenting plans
  • supporting the best possible co-parenting relationship
  • shifting repetitive communication dynamics
  • self-calming and self care through the process
  • the introduction of new partners