There is always hope

What are the Benefits of Counselling?

Counselling is tremendously beneficial for most people.  Counselling, often called psychotherapy, provides the opportunity to identify factors that contribute to your emotional health, and to learn how to deal effectively with the psychological, behavioral, interpersonal and situational causes. Recognizing the need for help is a good first step towards improvement.

A skilled therapist can work with you to:

• Pinpoint the life problems that contribute to your current situation and help you identify the problems you are able to solve or improve.
• Identify options for the future and set realistic goals that can enable you to enhance your mental and emotional well-being.
• Identify and change negative or distorted thinking patterns that contribute to feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, in order to help you nurture a more positive outlook on life.
• Explore other learned thoughts and behaviors that create problems and contribute to depression, anxiety and/or stress, which can help you regain a sense of control and pleasure in life.

Counselling helps you see choices as well as gradually increase enjoyable, fulfilling activities in your life. When your emotional health and balance is strong, both you and your family benefit.  

Areas of Counselling

Kells Therapists provide preventative and early intervention counselling to assist clients in resolving long-standing or recent life stressors and life transitions.

Counselling can also ameliorate effects of any historical abuse or current trauma.

Our therapists are highly trained and have the expertise required to work with people facing all sorts of challenges. We know how to help people deal with their feelings and attitudes and develop healthier and more effective patterns of behaviour.  

We provide services in the following areas, please select "General Counselling" on the side bar for futher details: 

• Couple therapy
• Individual Therapy
• Family Therapy
• Group Therapy

These can be located under "Specialized" on the navigation menu to the right:

• EMDR
• Play Therapy
• Crisis Intervention

Payment for private counselling is not covered under Alberta Health Care.  However, most benefit plans provide partial to full financial coverage.

Parent Training & Support

Our focus at Kells Counselling are the needs of families - both the needs of the children and the parents.

The goal of our Family Matters Parenting Services is to reach out to families to provide practical, concrete solutions to the challenging job of raising children in today's world.  Stronger parenting creates stronger family units and also produces healthier, happier children.  

We provide a range of courses and seminars to help parents become stronger in their job.  

We can also provide one-on-one Parent Coaching to work through specific challenges you are facing in your home. 

For more information please use our information request forms located under our Contact section.

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