When someone you love is struggling and you don’t know what to do. When you are trying to understand what is going on with your child, partner or friend and you just can’t seem to wrap your head around it. When everything you do to in the spirit of helping them seems to make it worse.
Below is list of psychoeducation and support groups offered as a drop-in-service for parents, partners, siblings, friends, and loved one’s who are struggling to understand and know how to effectively support the one they love without losing themselves to it in the process.
Understanding Mental Health
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, physical and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel and behave. This workshop will discuss the major mental health challenges occurring in today’s world, the factors that contribute to its development, what treatments can offer and some tips and strategies for families and friends. Bring your questions and our qualified counsellors will provide answers!
Parenting The Teenage Brain
There comes a time for most parents where you start to look at your teenage child and not recognize them anymore. The teenage years can be challenging with changing brains and bodies, development occurring in leaps and bounds (or seeming to not be happening at all), their priorities shift, and emotions become unpredictable and ever changing. Often communication starts to break down or conflicts and tension become the norm. Parents and caregivers need just as much support in understanding how to navigate this crucial transition period as the teenager themselves. At Parenting the Teenage Brain we focus on providing education, key strategies to cope and respond to teens, and a nonjudgmental, supportive place for parents and caregivers to land for a moment of reprieve.
