creating stronger families - Ashley Dreger, MACP

Family Counselling focuses on helping families to reconnect and develop stronger relationships. It helps to create a positive atmosphere in the home, work through discipline difficulties, help adolescents and children better control their emotions. 

Sessions are based in Family Systems Therapy. This form of psychotherapy focuses on working on individual difficulties in the context of the family unit. This approach allows for a focus on the relationship dynamics. One of the most important premises of family systems therapy is that what happens to one member of a family happens to everyone in the family

Blended families come with a whole different set of stressors. It can be difficult to integrate both families traditions, values and beliefs. Parenting approaches may be different. These new relationships can be fragile. Counselling can help to navigate through this process, and ensure every member of the family is feeling supported, and loved.

Adoption ​is a wonderful experience but can come with difficulties. It can be difficult to integrate the child into your family. The child may come with a history of difficulties that can cause him or her to have trouble trusting, building relationships and feeling safe. These behaviours can impact the family structure. Counselling will focus on helping the family understand each others needs, creating strong bonds, and ensuring all members feel safe and supported. 

Parent Consultations ​can help parents to develop the skills to better manage children's behaviours. As a believer of positive approaches to parenting, sessions will help parents better understand the stage the child is in, and positives ways to help their children to be successful. This approach leads to increased listening by children with decreased yelling by parents. 

Cost is $175 per hour and covered by most insurance providers