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Welcome

At Seedlings Counselling we strive to help children, youth and families overcome life's challenges by offering professional counselling services specific to each individual's needs. We take time to get to know you and understand your unique needs and concerns, in order to develop a customized counselling plan that will help you, your child and family flourish.

 

We're committed to nurturing your child's inner strengths, as well as those inherent to yourself as parent and to your family as a whole. Our person centered approach allows us to draw from a variety of effective counselling techniques and models - including play therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and expressive therapies - in order to gently guide you, your child, and family through an effective, evidence-based, and holistic process of healing and growth. Our history and experience -  strongly rooted in the Vancouver counselling and educational communities - provides us unique insight into the challenges of child and family development in these settings, and enables us to approach your care from a place of deep connectedness to local context and resources. 

 

We believe that a safe, respectul and caring relationship between counselor and client is cornerstone to achieving intended results and overall emotional wellbeing.   

 

We look forward to supporting you, your child, and your family on this important counselling journey.

 

Warmly,

 

          Kareen

 

 

 

 

 

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About Seedlings Counselling 

What We Provide 
  • Free confidential initial consultation

  • Comfortable and safe counselling space welcoming for children, youth and families

  • Professional services guided by current best practices

  • Person centered, strengths based approach 

  • Recognition of parents, caregivers and families as child's greatest resources

Our Mission

"A happy child is a happy parent"

 

At Seedlings Counselling we believe 

parents, caregivers and families 

strive to provide the best for their

children and want their children 

to be happy, healthy and secure. 

 

Our counsellors are dedicated to helping individuals and families 

address issues early on so they don't become problematic over time.

 

We're committed to cultivating

individual and collective strengths,

resources, and resiliency, existing 

within each family system.    

At Seedlings Counselling, children, youth and caregivers are provided a safe and caring space to gently explore thoughts, feelings and behaviours that are impacting the quality of their every day lives. 

 

Our trained counselors understand how troubling it can be when your child is overcome by fear, worry, anger, or sadness. That's why we're here to help employ a wide range of effective counseling methods - including individual play and expressive therapies, family counselling, group counselling and psycho-educational programs - suited to your child's unique needs, in order to help them understand, cope with, and express their feelings in positive and healthy ways. 

 

A counselling relationship with a Seedlings' counsellor will help you and your child understand what is at the root of problematic behaviours and/or dynamics that may be interfering with your lives.  By way of a therapeutic process grounded in trust, support, openness, and respect, working with our counsellors will help you and your child cultivate increased self awareness, coping skills, self esteem, and expressive ability. This will often lead to to improved child, parent, and family harmony, stability, and overall mental health.

 

About Seedlings Consulting

 

At Seedlings Consulting we draw on our vast experience and knowledge of community, program and business development to help individuals, organizations and coorporations achieve their strategic goals and objectives.

 

Through a broad lens that effectively incorporates solid social justice and business principles, we are equiped to undertake a variety of projects including:

 

 

 

Community needs assesment * Project evaluation * Literature review  * Supervision

 

* Training curriculum design and implementation * Fund development * Grant proposals

 

* Funding report * Program design and strategic planning * Employee training and workshops

 

* School based violence prevention, anti-bullying strategies and consultation

 

* Professional development for teachers, counselors and social workers 

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