Counselling Groups

Counselling Groups at Jewish Family & Child offer help for children and teens with challenging behaviours or social difficulties, and their parents. We have a broad range of services to help families cope with the challenges of everyday life. The counselling group program offers parents an opportunity to discuss those challenges and develop effective parenting strategies. The program offers children and adolescents a positive, social group experience.

Would you like life with your child or adolescent to be...

Better behaviourally? But conflict aggression and poor communication are getting in the way.
Better socially? But your child is having difficulty making or keeping friends, is isolated from his or her peers, and is lonely.
Better emotionally? But your child is experiencing low self-esteem, lack of confidence, problems controlling anger, or lack of motivation.

Is your family experiencing any of the following?

Parental disagreement
Parent-child conflict
Lack of effective communication

Our Group Counselling Program provides support and concrete assistance.

For parents:

An opportunity to develop parenting techniques that correspond to and enhance your child’s developmental challenges
Strategies for using your connection with your child to create an improved relationship
A renewed understanding of your child or adolescent
Opportunities for discussion with other parents

For children and adolescents:

An opportunity to participate in a positive social experience
The chance to meet regularly to interact and discuss important issues with peers
A place to learn and practice strategies for developing satisfying relationships
Time to improve communication skills and make new friends

The program - a three-phase approach

Phase 1: Assessment and Consultation
A plan is developed with the family that may include:

Group counselling
Individual, couple, family counselling
Referral to other Jewish Family & Child or community services

Fee for Phase 1 is $125. (Fee reductions are dependent on ability to pay.)

Phase 2: Group Counselling
Groups offered may include:

Parenting Teens with Challenging Behaviour
Parenting Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
PALS - an activity based group program for children, with a separate parent component
Teen Talk for adolescents, including Parent Talk, a separate 3-session parent component

Please see
Schedule for fee structure.
(Fee reductions are dependent on ability to pay.)

Phase 3: Individual, Couple, Family Counselling
These sessions are available on request following participation in group programs.

Schedule of current Counselling Groups

Questions? Call the Jewish Family & Child Intake Department
at 416 638-7800.