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If you are a parent, dealing with children’s issues can be downright overwhelming. You often face pressure from peers, teachers, other parents, and family members to solve these problems right away. And it’s never that simple. Many people feel frustrated and powerless, not knowing what to do.
When a child struggles, the entire family struggles.
Counselling for children is a unique practice, because every session is as different as every child. For most issues, it is helpful for the child to have the freedom to speak openly with a clinician, building a healthy, helpful relationship with a trusted adult. Many interventions require parental involvement, and in those cases the clinician will spend much of the session time providing information, resources, planning, and strategizing with caregivers, and then working directly with the child to address the issues using strength-based, age-appropriate activities.
Some children/youth respond to an individual “talking” approach, others respond to a skill building approach that also includes how they think about themselves or a problem, while others respond to a less direct approach such as play or art therapy. The approach is determined based on an assessment of the problem as well as what works best for the individual child/youth.
When a child struggles, the entire family struggles.
Counselling for children is a unique practice, because every session is as different as every child. For most issues, it is helpful for the child to have the freedom to speak openly with a clinician, building a healthy, helpful relationship with a trusted adult. Many interventions require parental involvement, and in those cases the clinician will spend much of the session time providing information, resources, planning, and strategizing with caregivers, and then working directly with the child to address the issues using strength-based, age-appropriate activities.
Some children/youth respond to an individual “talking” approach, others respond to a skill building approach that also includes how they think about themselves or a problem, while others respond to a less direct approach such as play or art therapy. The approach is determined based on an assessment of the problem as well as what works best for the individual child/youth.
"How old does my child have to be to attend counselling?"
We often see children as young as 6 in our clinical practice. However, we require that the parent or legal guardian must be present as interventions are much more effective when parents are a big part of them. From kids having trouble coping after loss or major changes such as divorce, or issues at school such as bullying or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), we can help.
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