A Balanced Life
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, CCW, RSW, MSW
Location
All sessions are offered by video conference. Parent workshop is free and online at this time. YouTube channel created to support children.
Finances
- Cost per Session: $150 - $180
- Sliding Scale: Yes
Qualifications
- Years in Practice: 21 Years
- Certificate: OCSW
- School: University of Toronto
- Year Graduated: 1998
Additional Credentials
- Certificate: College of Social Workers / 322211
- Certificate Date: 1998
- Certificate: Association of Social Work
- Certificate Date: 1998
A Balanced Life's Groups
Various groups for children to reduce anxiety.
The Ripple Effect Program is specifically designed to give children and youth the skills and knowledge they need to better manage fear and worry before they turn into a more serious concern. This will also help them be better prepared to cope with future challenges as they arise. Through our 12 week educational group program, participants learn specific, individualized techniques to take control of their own thoughts, feelings, and bodily responses to stress, and develop personal tool kits to help transfer this learning to their daily lives.
Parent Information Nights
Periodic sessions held throughout the year. Includes two group educational workshops for the parents/guardians and one individual session for the family. This will be a useful first step for those families who wish to learn more about anxiety, and how best to support their anxious child. The individual session is intended to help create a plan for strategies and any future supports or programs that may be needed.
Parent Support Group
10-week parent/guardian group program focusing on assisting parents/guardians of a child dealing with anxiety. The program offers information and strategies to help parents/guardians in supporting their child. Participants learn from each others' successes and challenges. The program is appropriate for any parent/guardian wishing to learn more about anxiety in children and youth, and will be useful as a follow-up, or as an alternative, to our Anxiety Education Program for Children and Youth.
Location
Specialties
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Coping Skills
Issues
- Addiction
- Anger Management
- Behavioural Issues
- Child or Adolescent
- Chronic Pain
- Developmental Disorders
- Divorce
- Eating Disorders
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Learning Disabilities
- Parenting
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sexual Abuse
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Women's Issues
Mental Health
- Dissociative Disorders
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Mood Disorders
- Personality Disorders
- Thinking Disorders
Sexuality
- Bisexual
- Gay
- Lesbian
Client Focus
Age
- Adults
- Adolescents / Teenagers (14 to 19)
- Preteens / Tweens (11 to 13)
- Children (6 to 10)
- Toddlers / Preschoolers (0 to 6)
Communities
- Bisexual Allied
- Body Positivity
- Gay Allied
- Intersex Allied
- Lesbian Allied
- Non-Binary Allied
- Open Relationships Non-Monogamy
- Queer Allied
- Racial Justice Allied
- Sex Worker Allied
- Sex-Positive, Kink Allied
- Transgender Allied
- Vegan Allied
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Art Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Cognitive Behavioural (CBT)
- Dialectical (DBT)
- Eclectic
- Emotionally Focused
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Feminist
- Humanistic
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Interpersonal
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Narrative
- Person-Centered
- Play Therapy
- Poly Vagal Informed, Trauma Informed
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Somatic
- Strength-Based
- Trauma Focused
Modality
- Individuals
- Family
- Group
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