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Harbour Family Counselling

Family therapist in Victoria, BC
Founder of the Chaos to Calm & Mood Managers Emotion Management Programs

02/09/2025

Exciting news! I’m thrilled to share that I have an article featured in the Fall 2025 Back-to-School edition of Island Parent Magazine! 🥳

You can find it on pages 30–31, where I dive into how emotional wellness for families starts in the messy moments—plus practical strategies parents can use to navigate those tough times with more calm and connection.

Check it out here 👉

Back-to-school season is more than just the return to routines and packing lunches. It also brings many mixed emotions to the surface. Conflicting feelings like excitement and nervousness, fear and bravery, hopefulness and disappointment will rise suddenly like waves and merge forcefully together li...

21/01/2025

Here are 5 of the top 10 emotion regulation skills that people often find effective in intense emotional moments. These skills are designed to create a pause and allow space for a more intentional response instead of an impulsive reaction.

Which of these skills do you use in tough moments? 💭

15/01/2025

It’s not a bigger house, exotic vacations, or the latest electronics, or even a large inheritance.

The most valuable gift you can give your kids is providing a home where emotions are safely felt, expressed, and processed. The gift of knowing and using emotion regulation skills and distress tolerance skills when someone is experiencing a difficult emotion (like anger, frustration, fear, disappointment, sadness) is a long term investment in your family’s emotional resilience and well being. Ultimately, it is the gift that keeps on giving!

Imagine your child has grown up and leaves your house knowing how to get through their emotional storms and is not afraid of these difficult moments because they know it’ll pass and they’ll be okay. This ability to regulate their emotions will help your children be successful in every aspect of their adult lives: future relationships, careers, and all the stuff that comes with the ups and downs of life. What a gift!

That’s why we created the Mood Managers program for kids ages 8-11, so we can partner with you to teach your kids how to manage their moods. There’s still room for a few more kids to join our winter cohort, so comment MOOD and we’ll send you a link with more info.

That’s also why we run the Chaos to Calm program, to support parents in this important work of finding our way through those messy emotional moments and back to calm.

Comment CALM if you’d like more info.

07/01/2025

How are you feeling about you and your family’s emotional health? Which of these are IN or OUT for you? 💭

If making a change feels hard, why not reach out for support? Sometimes just identifying that something needs to change is all the start you need.

📅 This month is a great time to join one or both of our emotion management programs!

Chaos to Calm is a parent support program that helps you understand why emotions in your home can be so incredibly challenging to manage. If you want to stop the groundhog day cycle of reacting to your kids’ emotional storms in a way that leaves you feeling guilty and powerless, this program is for you!

🗣️ Comment CHAOS if you’d like more info

Mood Managers is our emotion regulation program for kids ages 8-11. In just 8 weeks, your child will gain self-awareness and skills to manage their moods like anger with more confidence and fewer outbursts. Our next cohort starts this month and is filling up quickly!

🗣️ Comment MOOD and we’ll reach out to you!

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Opening Hours

Wednesday	09:30 - 18:30
Friday	09:00 - 17:30
Saturday	08:00 - 16:30

Telephone

+12508826717

Website

http://linkr.bio/harbourfamilycounselling

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