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Separation and Divorce

JF&CS offers groups, workshops, and counselling to support families through separation or divorce, with the goal of reducing potential risks of high conflict or assault. Click here for a list of our groups and workshops.

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Please email info@jfandcs.com or call 416.638.7800, ext. 6234 with your interest to register for any groups or workshops listed below or to access counselling services.

Please make sure to include a phone number and email address where we can reach you.

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About Our Services:

The groups, workshops and, counselling focus on helping people understand:

  • The beginning stages of a separation

  • How and when to tell children about an upcoming separation

  • Factors impacting children’s positive adjustment

  • The impact of conflict on children and how to keep them out of the conflict

  • How to communicate with your ex partner with the goal of keeping the conflict low, for the best interests of the children

  • Parenting strategies for higher-conflict families

  • Different interaction models for different levels of conflict

  • How to give children a voice to best understand their own thoughts, feelings, and/or worries

  • Emotional triggers and learning strategies for maintaining your own emotional control

  • How to create self worth and self awareness during the separation process

  • Feelings of anger, sadness, loss, and loneliness, as well as coping with change

  • Step parenting, blending your parenting styles, the role of discipline in a blended family, and building and maintaining a strong couple relationship

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