Individual Creative & Active Therapy for Children and Teenagers in Guelph, Ontario.

My expertise in child and youth learning stems from my background as an Elementary Teacher in Ontario public schools. Your young person's social, emotional and intellectual needs, strengths and challenges will be keenly observed during our time together.

During family consultation sessions, we can discuss what supports may best help your child or teenager develop the skills and fill the gaps that we've noticed. It can be overwhelming or confusing to know how to best support your child. We can make a plan together and find the resources needed.

During our sessions we'll be playing, learning, and growing a safe and positive adult and child relationship together. Doing activities such as puzzles, making bracelets, drawing, throwing balls, listening to music or building, will help spark your childs deepest concerns and questions.

We'll explore how young people are in their relationships and learn some social learning related terms to make ideas more concrete. We'll look at how each young person learns best, what sparks joy for them and what may stress them out. Using experiencial learning during out time together, young people will learn information about how everyone's brain learns, how to manage feelings, and the changes that happen when thier body grows.

Most importantly, they won't be alone in thier fears, thoughts, stresses and sadness. We'll work on a relationship where these are listened too and supported.

Child and Teenage Supports: $110 for a 50 minute session.

Family support and consultation

We have to acknowledge our importance to our child's life and identity development. With our ever changing society, new technologies, added stresses and convienences, our family and community relationships have changed. Personally, I often find it hard to keep up with and know how to best parent my kids.

We can come together and share our worries, stresses, ask questions and answer questions about how you can best support your child with where they are now and with deep consideration for where you, the parent(s) or caregivers are in your life. We can have the hard conversations of what the future may look like and look at navigating those sometimes hard truths together. I know from my experience parenting two very different children and working with children in schools, relationships with young people are powerful, ever changing and require patience and skills. Let's keep learning together!

Family consultation: $110 for 50min.

(Usually every 3-4 sessions a family consultation/update will take place)