Providing information and support to understand the presenting challenges and common management strategies
Using play to help children and teens explore their emotions, experiences, and challenges. Play is a natural medium for children to express their inner experience, especially when connecting through words is not always easiest or even possible.
Bringing one's attention to the present and away from focusing on negative thought patterns and subsequent behaviours
Developing psychological flexibility through acceptance and behaviour therapy to increase values-based living
Exploring how to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop strategies for healthy cognition, behaviour, and emotion
Building skills and strategies to understand, cope with, and process any traumatic experience to reduce or eliminate trauma symptoms
Using attachment theory to build skills to understand, regulate, and foster healthy emotional responses
Developing an understanding of the core self by learning about how different parts of the self function as an entire system