Counseling May be the Answer

Whether you are coping with a diagnosed issue or just not feeling like yourself, we are here to support you in your healing journey. Our counsellors provide a wide variety of services and are skilled in creating a safe space for you to explore and gain clarity. We help you identify limiting beliefs that may be holding you back and help you gain a better understanding and appreciation of yourself.

Individual Counseling

With the sometimes overwhelming demands faced today, it can become difficult to cope with the stress. Counseling is a valuable process for all of us, particularly to strengthen resiliency and re-establish balance and overall well-being. Counseling is a way to enhance your life.

Our counsellors are trained to help you create positive shifts in your life. They will help you:

  • increase your self-awareness

  • find ways to make small but meaningful changes that will help you build momentum

  • develop or expand your self-compassion

  • accept failure as simply feedback

  • experiment with behaving ‘as if’

Your counsellor will provide a non-biased source of support and coaching. They will walk with you on your path to healing and thriving. They may help you manage your expectations. Knowing that healing is a process and being patient with yourself can help you start to thrive even as you move through the process. Your counsellor will encourage you to take time for self-care and help you plan and commit to carrying through. They will help you focus on opportunities and develop realistic goals. They will help you accept change as a part of the process, take decisive action, and act in the face of adversity. Counseling can help you develop or increase your resiliency.

Couples Counseling

Many couples face challenges and obstacles that make them wonder about staying together. Couples counselling is effective in strengthening happy marriages and supporting and repairing troubled relationships. Couples can improve their relationships, improve communication, and learn to more positively handle issues such as finances, parenting, intimacy, in-laws, family members, and more. You can deepen your connection, improve intimacy, and strengthen your relationship. Couples work is helpful for much more than a final attempt to save your relationship. It is beneficial for:

  • Dating couples wanting to create a lasting, satisfying relationship

  • Engaged couples wishing to begin their marriage in the best way

  • Couples with a good relationship who want to deepen their intimacy

Family Counseling

Family Counselling involves exploring interactions among family members. Your counsellor will encourage you to avoid shaming and blaming as you seek creative and balanced solutions to problems. You will work together to find techniques your family can use to build each other up and recognize and celebrate individual strengths. Your counsellor will help you move toward developing a family culture of respect that includes healthy boundaries, positive regard, and acceptance. Family Counselling helps all family members gain clarity around problems and create positive changes in their lives.

Parent / Child Counseling

Children are greatly affected by the world around them. They experience a wide range of emotions and challenges.

Although children are resilient, they may, at times, experience difficulties coping with the stress. Often they lack adequate coping skills. As a result, they may act out. Their acting out behaviours can be concerning and exhausting. Troubling behaviours may include:

  • tantrums

  • bedwetting

  • nightmares

  • backtalk/defiance

  • hyperactivity

  • withdrawing

  • conflicts with peers

  • refusing to attend school

Our counsellors will help children, their parents and families navigate problematic situations, better understand the underlying causes of the presenting behaviours, learn adaptive coping skills, and promote healthy relationships.

Parent Support Counseling

Parenting is often a rewarding experience. At times it is challenging for all parents. Most parents experience doubts about their abilities to parent. They may feel overwhelmed, guilty, and at a loss to know how to create the harmonious home life they desire.

Although there is no magic bullet for ensuring children will be healthy, happy, and successful in life, your counsellor can help you explore ways to promote your children’s well-being. They can help you navigate the challenges parents face and find ways to improve communication, connect with, and guide your children so they will grow into healthy, successful adults.

We offer a variety of counseling services at Bridge Counseling.

Some of these are listed below:

  • Excessive Shopping, Gambling, Internet attachment, Workaholism

  • Alzheimer’s

  • Anger Management

  • Anxiety Disorder

  • Bereavement

  • Boundaries

  • Chronic Medical Conditions

  • Codependency

  • Conduct Disorder

  • Couples/Marital

  • Crisis/Trauma

  • Depression

  • Developmental Disorders

  • Divorce/Separation

  • Emotional Regulation

  • Family Conflict

  • Gambling

  • Geriatrics

  • Grief

  • Head/Brain Injuries

  • Incest/Abuse

  • Infidelity

  • Intimacy

  • Learning Disabilities

  • Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual Issues (LGBTQ)

  • Life Transitions

  • Men’s Issues

  • Mood Disorders

  • Pain Disorders

  • Personality Disorders

  • Phobias

  • Psychotic Disorders

  • PTSD

  • Schizophrenic Disorder

  • Self-Esteem/Self-Growth

  • Sex Offenders

  • Sexual Dysfunction

  • Sleep Disorders

  • Stress Management

  • Testing

  • Work Stress