Clinical Counselling Services
Peaks and Paths Psychotherapy offers clinical counselling services to support children, youth, and young adults (ages 0-25). This includes developmentally appropriate psychoeducation, talk therapies, expressive therapies and somatic interventions to treat a range of mental health conditions and to navigate life’s changes and transitions.
Other clinical services include developmental and psychosocial assessments, psycho-education, and mental health screenings. Please note that Peaks and Paths Psychotherapy does not provide any diagnoses, but can support in setting your child up with a public psychiatrist, pediatrician or private nurse practitioner if this is something you are seeking.
Treatment lengths can vary from client to client, but multiple sessions are required to notice improvement and healing. For this reason, we offer a free, no commitment, 20 minute consultation so we can get to know you and/or your child before treatment begins and determine if the relationship is the right fit.
Child Life Services
Kira Browett is a Certified Child Life Specialist (CCLS) and uses her child life background to inform her psychotherapy work. Child Life Services aim to protect children (ages 0-18) from psychological trauma using therapeutic intervention. This involves helping with preparation and/or coping while meeting the child’s developmental needs in the face of stressful situations. Services to promote coping around single events may be scheduled on an ‘as needed’ or one-time only basis, or could be required for a longer period of time. Some examples of the services offered informed by child life practices include:
– Preparation for an upcoming medical procedure, doctor/dentist appointment, testing, or other
healthcare encounter
– Helping children to learn and understand their own medical diagnosis or that of a family member
– Supporting children in the illness of a parent or loved one, and if needed, preparation for death of a
loved one
– Processing grief and loss of a family member or loved one
– Processing a major traumatic event or situation immediately after it occurs
– Preparation for funerals or other stressful events
– Age-appropriate education about trauma, death, grief, loss, or illness.