Family Counselling Services in Halton Hills, ON.

The Refuge can support your family to heal and recover from a variety of life challenges, including trauma, addictions, grief and loss, separation and divorce, conflict, complex family dynamics, and other transitions and stressors. Our approach is trauma-specific, body- and emotion-focused, and grounded in attachment theory, neuroscience and family systems to help you and your loved ones restore respectful communication, mutual understanding, repair attachment injuries, develop emotion regulation skills, promote attuned parenting, and reconnect with joy and enjoyment with one another. Our team offers individual, couples and family sessions.

Each family has its own unique personality that impacts the functioning of its members. I am trained in a variety of therapeutic models and the approach I take will be catered to your family dynamics and the special challenges that brought you here today. When working with the family, I help improve their ability communicate openly to challenging issues and work through ups and downs in their relationships.

Family therapy is a process for everyone to feel heard, understood and that their needs matter. From the youngest to the eldest all our needs matter. Through a process of growing empathy for each other, we can explore creative ways where everyone can get their needs met and everyone can have space to be themselves. Sometimes we all get confused about what we are really wanting. So often conflict and misunderstandings create isolation in even the most loving families. Our work together is to make the time and space to understand each other and find the way back from conflict to connection.

Dr. Van Blyderveen, Dr. Saliba, and Dr. Brunet each offer family therapy at New Leaf Psychology Centre. Through family therapy, you and your family will learn to communicate more effectively with one another, better understand each other, and experience more frequent moments of closeness. Attention will be given to balancing the relationship quality with the different roles of parents and children. Dr. Saliba has a special interest in working with blended families, and Dr. Brunet has a special interest in facilitating attachment between young children (ages 0 through 6) and their parents.

Is your family struggling? Are arguments frequent and hurtful? Perhaps you are facing the challenge of a blended family. Professional counselling can help you sort out what is happening, why it is happening, and how to best address it. As your therapist, I help you work towards happier, more harmonious interactions --interactions that are respectful, healthy and as constructive as possible.

When conflict in a family occurs it is felt throughout, similar to a ripple effect in a pond. Family therapy is about integrating family members as a single unit to restore harmony and balance. Integration in therapy is key, as similar to the conflict ripple effect above, the same effect occurs with change. Change in one family member is experienced throughout the entire family unit. Family therapy may be brief (typically 1-4 sessions) or longer term (5+ sessions) depending on your families current needs. Regardless of the reasons for seeking therapy, I want to work with your family to restore its balance, co-create change, and develop a harmonious ripple effect that can be felt throughout