Our Professional Services
Professional Services offered by Fernie Counselling & Consulting
Counselling is confidential and professional. Professional Counselling involves an assessment , a plan & evidence based practice that help overcome & manage issues. At times people become stuck and our therapy is intended to move you forward in your life and old patterns & ways of functioning are positively transformed.
Explore your mind & heart. Discover your dreams and soar to new heights.
Individual Counselling
As circumstances of each client differ, we use numerous counselling methods and approaches that represent each individuals unique needs and wants. We work together & determine a plan of treatment that is most effective for you. This may involve a single modality or a combination of integrative treatments.
Family Counselling
Is it fun and exciting to be a member of your family? Family therapy aims to help your family work through the challenges that you are faced with today.
This involves working to:
-identify your strengths and difficulties
-establish individual and family goals
-address these challenges and goals through a series of insightful and creative sessions
Couples Counselling
Couples’ counselling focuses on helping couples manage and reconcile troublesome differences within their relationship.
All couples on this path towards a harmonius and long lasting relationship experience conflicts and disagreement.
But the difference between a happily married and committed couple, and an unhappy union most frequently involves the ability to discuss and resolve differences in a positive manner that respects the interests and needs of each individual.
Therapy will guide couples on this path toward a harmonious and long last relationship.
Play Therapy
Play therapy is a structured, theoretically based approach to therapy that builds on the normal communicative and learning processes of children (Carmichael, 2006; Landreth, 2002; O’Connor & Schaefer, 1983). The curative powers inherent in play are used in many ways.
Therapists strategically utilize play therapy to help children express what is troubling them when they do not have the verbal language to express their thoughts and feelings (Gil, 1991). In play therapy, toys are like the child’s words and play is the child’s language (Landreth, 2002).
Click here to view a video titled “Trauma & Play Therapy: Holding Hard Stories” by Paris Goodyear-Brown
Click here to view a video from The Association for Play Therapy titled “Introducing Andrew”.
You can find more information about play therapy here.
Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT)
CPRT is a Filial Therapy Model for training parents with children from 2 – 10 years old. This training will help you learn skills that will make a difference in your life and the life of your child.
You will learn how to regain control as a parent, help your child develop self-control, effectively discipline and limit inappropriate behaviour, understand your child’s emotional needs and communicate more effectively with your child.
You will see a noticeable difference in your relationship with your child, your child’s behaviour, your ability to respond effectively and your confidence in parenting skills!
Adoption
Adoption services are provided in the Kootenay area from a licensed non-profit, non-sectarian, adoption and counselling agency of your choice.
This service provides counselling for pregnant women unsure of what to do, an opportunity to completely explore all available options with unbiased support empowering women to make their own well informed decision.
Domestic and inter-country adoption facilitation as well as education, counseling and support are included for those desiring adoption.
Crisis Trauma Response
The principles of Field Traumatology and emergency mental health are provided for those individuals and families impacted by the loss and grief experienced from a traumatic event.
Family Law Mediation
Fernie Counselling and Consulting provides an alternative to litigation that can offer more effective ways to resolve family disputes. This process is a voluntary attempt by each party to respectfully negotiate and develop their own agreement with the assistance of an impartial, neutral and trained person present.
The Mediator can assist with helping to identify the conflict, help the parties set goals and achieve them through constructive dialogue. Mediation involves facilitating communication that relates to marriage, cohabitation, separation, divorce, and/or custody issues.
Fernie Counselling and Consulting has no independent decision making power. Legal advice for each party’s interest is recommended.
Team Building Character Education Program
This building-character education program strives to develop behavioural skills that are based on specific personal characteristic values and attitudes deemed important for healthy, productive and social living; optimizing growth in academic, cognitive, career, emotional, moral-ethical, personal and social learning arenas.
Presentations are designed to help individuals focus on acquiring the attainment of knowledge and skills for developing healthy life goals and acquiring the behaviours to reach those goals.
EMDR Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an integrative psychotherapy approach that has been extensively researched and proven effective for the treatment of trauma.
EMDR is a set of standardized protocols that incorporates elements from many different treatment approaches. To date, EMDR therapy has helped millions of people of all ages relieve many types of psychological stress