Sunny Days Psychotherapy, Counselling & Assessment

Psychotherapy with Adults:
~We all face stress in our everyday living, at home, at work or at school.
~Some of us deal with the pressure of being a parent of one or multiple children at the same time with being a husband or a wife, a daughter or a son.
~Sometimes we don’t even know why we are feeling down.
~Most of the time, we do a good job to tackle our day. A professional can help you to recognize the source of your negative feelings, thoughts, and help you adjust and cope with your worries and stress. When to seek professional help?
�Feeling down and you don’t know why
�If you lost interest in your usual daily activities and interests
�If making a phone call to a friend has become a burden;
�You have recurring thoughts of hurting yourself
�Your self-worth depends on how others see you
�You are turning to food, drugs, and alcohol to compensate your unhappiness
�You have fear of losing control over yourself

Counselling with Children and Youth:

All children will experience both physical and psychological bumps and bruises on their way to adolescence and adulthood. Parents naturally want the best for their children and do not like to see their children in distress. Parents also worry when their child or teenager has difficulty coping, feels sad or moody, can’t sleep, has difficulty getting along with family or friends. Parents are usually among the first to recognize when their child has a behavioural or emotional problem. Sunny Days Counselling specializes in working with children, adolescents, and their families to address a wide array of child and adolescent mental health issues, as well as a variety of parenting concerns. The decision to seek professional help should flow from the nature, intensity and duration of the problem, and whether or not the problem is seriously interfering with your child/adolescent’s day-to-day functioning. Is it adversely affecting school performance? Family relationships? Is Behaviour posing a danger to others or self? Warning Signs:

A sudden, marked drop in the quality of your child’s school work
Earning poor grades despite trying very hard
New onset or significant increase in behaviour problems at school
Severe worry or anxiety
Persistent school refusal or refusal to separate from parents
Persistent sleep problems
Frequent physical complaints without a medical cause
Hyperactivity, fidgeting beyond normal moving
Fatigue or lack of energy
Persistent disobedience, fighting or aggression
Unexplainable temper tantrums
Any threat to harm or kill oneself

Specialties

Cognitive-Behvaioural Therapy with Adults, Children and Teens, Family Counselling, Psychoeducational Assessments, Phobias, Panic Disorder, Anxiety, Depression, Social Skills Training, Anger Management, Eating Disorders, Sleep problems, Divorce and Separation, Learning Disabilities, ADHD, Giftedness, Grief and loss, Complex trauma