Family Counselling Services in Rivers, MB.

In family counseling, my approach centers on fostering open communication, enhancing understanding, and strengthening familial bonds. By providing a safe and supportive environment, I facilitate productive dialogue and assist families in addressing conflicts, improving dynamics, and developing effective problem-solving skills. Through collaborative exploration of roles, values, and dynamics, families can cultivate greater harmony, resilience, and mutual respect, leading to healthier relationships and improved family functioning.

Despite the best intentions of ourselves and our family members, we are often tangled in patterns of invalidation, rejection, frustration and blame. It can feel so messy that we operate in a constant state of fear and a crippling sense of unworthiness. In 2008 I started my counselling career as a family therapist. A combination of individual and joint sessions will take place to allow the space for all voices to be respectfully heard, while helping to identify bigger ‘systems’ patterns that keep you stuck in pain and finger-pointing. I will help to smooth out communication, make room for wants and needs and to heal the old wounds holding you back from having a healthier relationship.

We invite families with children 16 years and older to discuss whatever concern they may have. We believe the family unit is important and needs to be a place of emotional safety if connection is to be fostered. Whether it is communication that seems to be suffering, or relationships going in a direction never imagined, or maybe home life could be just a little bit better; whatever the reason, we are here to help. In therapy, we want all family members to feel respected and all to have a voice, where blaming does not occur, and where ownership and honesty is encouraged. We all have areas to improve in, and we consider it an privilege to assist families toward their goal.