COUPLES COUNSELLING & THERAPY IN VANCOUVER & BURNABY, BC
Couples bring a unique dynamic to counselling. Both parties are involved in their relationship problems and therefore both play a role in building and implementing solutions. It is helpful to have counselling services from a professional who can provide a safe environment in which both partners can feel heard and understood. It is equally important that each member of the couple feel empowered to act and be accountable for contributing to the positive progress of counselling and life outside of the therapy room.
Our Counsellors have extensive training and experience providing marriage and relationship therapy. We use very active, ‘here and now’ approaches to inform the couples counselling that we do. These methods have been proven to work well for, and to be well received by, both men and women in relationships. We focus on getting to know our clients, learning what their marriage and relationship issues are, and then moving forward with techniques that encourage the building of new skills to allow couples to move beyond the “same old arguments” common in marriage and relationships and toward new ways of interacting.
Couples can often get caught in the same old arguments, even when they are aware of these patterns. At our offices in Burnaby and Vancouver, the Jericho Counsellors assist couples to understand how they may be struggling with the physiological flooding that often happens when our brains interpret a threat or fear. Conflict with a partner can definitely create the feeling of being threatened or fearful and we very quickly find ourselves in the ’survival’ part of our brain, which is great if there is a serious physical danger present, but not that helpful if we are just trying to work through something with our partner. With the help of the counsellors at Jericho Counselling, couples can learn necessary skills to calm the flooding, be more fully aware of what is happening in our brains and bodies, and then engage with the ’smarter’ part of our brains to give ourselves the best chance of a good outcome in a potentially difficult situation.
Whether you are challenged by communication issues, infidelity, addiction including workaholism, pornography and sex, or decisions about whether to marry or separate, Jericho Counsellors are experienced and able to help.
FAMILY COUNSELLING & THERAPY IN VANCOUVER & BURNABY, BC
Family therapy is a unique experience within the realm of counselling. Typically, when we think of counselling, we are likely to think about individual counselling. While many issues may be resolved through the process of individual counselling there are times where the answers lie in the way that individuals function as part of the family system. For these situations, Family Therapy is the best solution.
The Counsellors at Jericho are trained and experienced in working with Families. Most of our counsellors also come with extensive experience working with Children and Youth and this is especially helpful when engaging the younger members of families.
The goal of Family Counselling is to discover the unique challenges and strengths of each Family System and then use that knowledge to build a more harmonious home or relational environment.
CHILDREN & YOUTH COUNSELLING & THERAPY IN VANCOUVER & BURNABY, BC
It is common for parents to worry about their children, but do you find that your worries are constant and that your child is generally unhappy, lonely, anxious, distracted, impulsive, negligent, resists school or family rules, has fears or irrational worries? Parents do all they can possibly do to console their children but sometimes children feel more comfortable opening up to an un-biased third party. Children and Youth Counselling opens a new window into the emotional life of a young one.
The Counsellors at Jericho Counselling are trained and experienced in working with Children and Youth. Most of our counsellors come with extensive experience working with Children and Youth and this is especially helpful when engaging the younger members of families. Jericho Counsellors use expressive techniques, play therapy, and cognitive behavioural therapy to when counselling children and youth. These counselling approaches are effective for most problems that bring youth and children into counselling.
