Services
Areas of Practice
Individual
Therapy
Couples
Therapy
Family
Therapy
Psychoeducational
Assessments
Individual Therapy
Individual counseling is a personal opportunity to receive support and to experience growth during challenging times in life. Our therapists create a safe, caring and confidential environment that allows you to work through your “stuff” in a way that makes sense for you.
Areas of focus:
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Adjustment
- Adoption
- Alcohol use
- Anxiety
- Attachment
- Autism
- Behavioural Issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Burnout
- Career guidance
- Child and adolescent development
- Chronic illness
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Developmental Disorders
- Divorce
- Drug Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Education and Learning Disabilities
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Gambling
- Grief
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Internet addiction
- Life transitions
- Marital and premarital
- Men’s issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting
- Peer relationships
- Pregnancy, Prenatal and Postpartum
- Relationship issues
- School refusal and school issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual abuse
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Sport performance anxiety
- Stress
- Substance use
- Suicidal ideation
- Testing and evaluation
- Trauma
- Gender identity
- Sexual orientation
- Weight issues
- Women’s issues
Couples Therapy
Couples therapy is a form of psychotherapy or counselling that can help you and your partner improve your relationship and your relationship satisfaction. Couples therapy can help at any stage of the relationship, regardless of marital status, age, race, faith, or sexual orientation.
Areas of focus:
- Role negotiation
- Beliefs and values
- Finances
- Communication
- Children
- Parenting
- Familial relationships
- Intergenerational and transgenerational patterns
- Sex and intimacy
- Health issues
- Managing stressors
- Adultery/cheating
- Conflict resolution
- Attachment styles
- Negotiation boundaries
- Co-parenting
- Divorce
- Relationship Issues
- Life Transitions
Family Therapy
Family therapy may include all family members or only those who able or willing to participate. Your specific treatment plan will depend on your family's situation. Family therapy sessions can teach you skills to deepen family connections and get through stressful times, even after you're done going to therapy sessions.
Areas of focus:
- Role negotiation
- Parent-child conflict
- Communication
- Sibling rivalry
- Conflict resolution
- Negotiating boundaries
- Preventing or correcting enabling patterns
- Supporting family members with chronic illness
- Recovering from loss
- Adjusting to divorce
- Unemployment
- Moving
- Ageing
- Trauma
- Death and grieving
Psychoeducational Assessments
We like to think of these assessments as a process that allows us to develop an owner’s manual for the brain. With this manual in hand, it’s much easier to improve learning, daily functioning and development.
If your child is struggling with learning or behaviour at school, educational and psychological testing can help identify cognitive, academic, and behavioural factors that may be impeding their long-term success.
Seeds of Hope provides psychoeducational assessments in French and English for Specific Learning Disabilities (formerly called dyslexia and dysgraphia), Intellectual Disabilities, and ADHD.
Psychoeducational assessments evaluate verbal skills, visual skills, reasoning skills, memory, processing speed, learning, and behaviour. A straightforward report will outline strengths and weaknesses and will provide recommendations for behavioural, academic, and cognitive interventions at school and at home, leaving you empowered to make timely changes in your child’s home and school environments.
Chantal is bilingual and is able to conduct parts of, or whole assessments en français and in English: perfect for French-immersion and francophone students.
Alycia, Melanie, Pavaneet and Carolynn are able to provide assessments in English.
Assessments are useful for an individual who:
has chronic below grade-level achievement in reading, writing or math
needs a formal assessment to receive services or supports
struggles with keeping up in class
has difficulty with short term memory
isn’t performing to their full potential
is not progressing in learning despite significant support
has a parent or sibling with a Learning Disorder, ADHD, Autism or Intellectual Disability
requires AISH funding as an adult
has an identified specific learning disorder and has not been assessed in the last 2 years
What does an assessment entail?
a one-hour clinical interview with parents to gain a thorough understanding of developmental information and current difficulties
4 to 7 hours in clinic with your child, conducting standardized testing and completing appropriate questionnaires
a 1.5 – 2 hour meeting with parents and relevant support persons to review findings and discuss recommendations
Our Therapeutic Modalities
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a structured therapy that encourages the patient to briefly focus on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories. Unlike other treatments that focus on directly altering the emotions, thoughts and responses resulting from traumatic experiences, EMDR therapy focuses directly on the memory, and is intended to change the way that the memory is stored in the brain, thus reducing and eliminating the problematic symptoms. EMDR therapy is an effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders.
The Hakomi Method
The word Hakomi comes from the Hopi, meaning “Where do I stand in relation to the many realms?”
Hakomi is a body-centred, somatic psychotherapy method. Hakomi uses the body as a doorway into the unconscious, into the hidden beliefs (core material) that influence and shape ourselves, relationships and self-image. Hakomi is a fast and powerful method that allows access to this core material so that it can emerge safely into our consciousness, where it can be re-evaluated and transformed. The individual can then integrate new ways of being that are more satisfying and effective in life. Central to the Hakomi method is the healing relationship between the client and therapist, which creates a deep sense of safety and connection that facilitates therapy.
“Therapy is first about discovering. It’s about who you are and about what your deepest emotional attitudes are. It’s not just about who you think you are. It’s not opinion. It’s not something you can know with the intellect. It’s about who you are in the very heart of yourself. That’s the flavour of psychotherapy, discovering yourself, discovering your real attitudes toward the most important pieces of your life.” ~ Ron Kurtz, Hakomi Founder
Fees
Individual Therapy (ages 6+): $130-$220 per hour
Couples Therapy: $130-$220 per hour
Family Therapy: $130-$220 per hour
Psychoeducational Assessment: $2200
All services are available at reduced rates with a student intern, a Canadian Certified Counsellor, a mental health counsellor, or with a provisional psychologist.