Social skills are the communication, problem-solving, decision making, self-management, and peer relation abilities that allow our children to initiate and maintain positive social relationships with others.

What can be done to keep the “spark” alive in your relationship?

Normal sadness is transient and usually goes away within a day or two. However, parents should be concerned when low mood is persistent (for more than two weeks) and begins to interfere with how their child thinks, feels and behaves on a daily basis.

Everyone experiences anxiety from time to time. Life is stressful, and our bodies are designed to keep us safe by letting us know about potentially dangerous situations in the form of anxiety.

Through their research Drs. John and Julie Gottman have identified the key factors involved in relationships that work and have developed the metaphor of The Sound Relationship House to conceptualize these factors.

Feelings of anxiousness are a typical reaction to daily stressors, however, for some kids worries can get out of control and start to cause problems.

Single session therapy provides a way for parents to access the benefits of counselling for their child and family when finances and time are limited.

As a parent you are an expert on your child. You know when something doesn’t seem quite right.

Growing up is hard work for both kids and parents. As a parent you want to ensure that your child’s emotional, social, and intellectual development is supported.

Research indicates that a number of trauma focused psychotherapies such as trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR), prolonged exposure therapy, hypnotherapy and psychodynamic therapy are effective in treating PTSD.

In order to understand Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) it is important to first recognize and understand the key component that underlies it, trauma.