Discover how counselling can provide the support and tools your teen needs to navigate life’s challenges and thrive—read on to learn more.
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The Benefits of Youth Counselling in 2024
In this blog, we will explore how counselling builds resilience, enhances communication, and provides a supportive space for self-discovery - all crucial for a teen’s mental and emotional well-being.
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The Importance of Early Intervention in Youth Addiction
Youth addiction is a problem that needs immediate attention and efficient intervention techniques, like counselling. Peer pressure, emotional upheaval, and experimentation are just a few of the difficulties that adolescents face at this sensitive time. Sadly, these elements occasionally can contribute to the emergence of addictive behaviours or problems with substance misuse. Youth addiction counselling...
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What You Need to Know About Bipolar Disorder
Perhaps you or a loved one has been suffering inexplicable bouts with frequent changes in mood, energy levels, and function. Why? It could be bipolar disorder. 1% of Canadians will experience bipolar disorder and encounter the aforementioned changes in mood and beyond. Okay, so lots of Canadians experience bipolar disorder – but what is it?...
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Short Days & The Psychological Effect On Teens
While it might seem silly to some, it is well documented that sunlight is a large influencer on the mental health of people young and old alike. The common term for when you start to feel blue when hours of sunlight begin to drop in the winter months is Seasonal Affective Disorder. Studies have...
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Addressing the Challenges of Seasonal Affective Disorder Among Young People
As fall leaves begin to change colour and the seasons begin to change in drastic ways, we can all expect the cold to kick in, the amount of sunlight to reduce, and our moods to shift as a result. This is particularly the case as folks begin to slow down in terms of their activity...
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Youth Depression: What to Know and How to Help
“Feeling blue” or feeling “down in the dumps” is a normal part of being a teenager. There are many moments in one’s adolescence when they experience upsets or moments of sadness. Experts remind us that adolescence can be a very unsettling time and teens can be faced with an array of physical, emotional, psychological and...
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OCD and Youth: How Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Affects Children & Teens, and How It Can Be Treated
“My kid is a little OCD.” A teacher recently told us about hearing a parent utter these words. A lot of people use this or similar verbiage, it turns out, to describe quirks or mannerisms which mimic Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD. People may use this kind of phrase to describe someone who seems to...
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What Yelling Does to A Child (and How to Stop It)
Yelling. We’ve all been there. At one point or another, our frustration levels peak high on (or off!) the charts. Sometimes it’s a gradual climb to that place. At other times, it’s a rapid spike. Why? After all, at heart, we don’t want to yell. We don’t feel good about yelling, at least not afterward....
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How Kids Learn to Be Helpless
Many kids who struggle at school do so not because they are incapable of success, but because they have learned to believe that they are. This is a psychological phenomena known as Learned Helplessness; a sense of powerlessness that we often develop at a young age as a result of traumatic events, or persistently failing to succeed at a particular tasks. ...
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