FSC Services include:

Psychotherapy - with individuals, couples, and families.
Internet Abuse Counseling - dealing with pathological usage, Cyber-Sex /Pornography
Mediation - for separating and divorcing couples, families and small businesses.
Workshops: When Anger Pushes Love Away - The Secrets of Deepening Intimacy. (big success! to be repeated soon)
Caring and Sharing: Discarding tension and hostility and replacing that with caring and sharing.

Relationship or Family Counseling

All families have conflict. It's the nature of people living in close proximity. But when normal conflicts turn into daily shouting matches, family members begin hurting each other emotionally (and sometimes physically) and a feeling of anger permeates the household, it's time to do something about it. Blended families in which one or both parents bring to the marriage children from previous relationships present their own unique dynamics. Let's face it. It isn't always the Brady Bunch. But there is help.
Sometimes the conflict is caused by the inappropriate or unacceptable behavior of one or more members of the family. But it affects everyone. While we work with those individuals to try to help them with the cause of their actions, we also work with the entire family so they can provide support for that person and for each other, and to learn how to reduce the conflict.

Families can be thought of as a system of interacting parts. We learn how to think, feel and behave from the families in which we grew up. When these beliefs are not challenged and/or changed, we pass on that legacy to our children and their families.

Relationship or family counseling may be particularly useful for:

Problems developing in one or more family members which affect all (i.e.: children's problems, anger, depression in one partner etc.)

Family or relationship change such as divorce, or children leaving home

Cultural and ethnic conflict within relationships

Sexual or cultural differences between the family and the larger community

Finding the satisfaction you seek in relationships

Individual Counseling

Everyone experiences problems in the course of growth and development. Some problems pass with time; some can be resolved with personal creative problem solving; some can be resolved by consulting with family, friends, or other resources. Sometimes problems persist in spite of all attempts to resolve them; sometimes they are just too numerous, too acute, and too big to manage without additional support. At these times counseling services can provide assistance in rebuilding problem solving resources and options.

Individual counseling might be particularly useful for:

life changes, such as relationship loss

aloneness and loneliness

ethnic and cultural background differences

sexual identity differences

anger issues, ongoing stressors such as depression; substance abuse; eating or other disorders

Mediation Services

Marriages, business partnerships and corporations do break up. Skilled psychologists/mediators have saved parties millions of dollars in damages, legal costs and court costs by diverting the process away from the traditional court barrister's adversarial methods and building instead a goal-oriented spirit and discussion framework for cooperative issue structuring, management and resolution. With adept mediation, key issues can be resolved and finality reached early in the process at a nominal cost. Please do call us for a free consultation to discuss the viability of this adjunct to your legal processes.

Fees

Fees with taxes included will be set at your first appointment.

Therapy Fees range from $85 per hour to as low as $55 per hour with ability-to-pay relief applied to Seniors, Students and special cases.

Family Law matter mediation fees are $95 per hour.

Business / Proprietorship mediation fees are set based on a Schedule for Completion.

Internet Appointment Booking Form

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All services in Barrie, Simcoe County and area are by appointment between 9:30am and 9:00pm. Emergency services are available. (705) 733-7544

Caring and Sharing

When we share laughter, there is twice the fun.
When we share success, we have surpassed what we have done.
When we share problems, there is half the pain.
When we share tears, a rainbow follows rain.
When we share dreams, they become more real.
When we share secrets, we reveal our hearts.
If we share a smile, that is when our love shows.
If we share a hug, that is when our love grows.
If we share with someone on whom we depend, that person is always Family or friend.
In addition, what draws us closer and makes us all care is not what we have, but the things that we share.

Director: Micheal J. O'Brien B.A. Psychology, Child & Youth Counsellor, SJA First Aid Rescuer, Level "C" CPR, Prevention & Management of Aggressive Behaviour training, Anger Management Facilitator

Behaviour Therapy: psychotherapy that emphasizes the application of the principles of learning to substitute desirable responses and behavior patterns for undesirable ones -- also referred to as behavior modification therapy.

Counseling: professional guidance of the individual utilizing psychological methods especially in collecting case history data, using various techniques of the personal interview, and testing interests and aptitudes.

Group Therapy: therapy in the presence of a therapist in which several patients discuss and share their personal problems.

Primal Therapy: psychotherapy in which the patient recalls and reenacts a particularly disturbing past experience usually occurring early in life and expresses normally repressed anger or frustration especially through spontaneous and unrestrained screams, hysteria, or physical expression.

Play Therapy: psychotherapy in which a child is encouraged to reveal feelings and conflicts in play rather than by verbalization

Psychotherapy: treatment of mental or emotional disorder or of related bodily ills by psychological means.

Therapy: therapeutic treatment especially of bodily, mental, or behavioral disorder.

A few ideas to think about.

1) Take into accountthat great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2) When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

3) Follow the three "R"s: *Respect for self; *Respect for others and *Responsibility for all your actions.

4) Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

5) Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

6) Don't let a little dispute a great friendship

7) When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it

8) Spent some time alone every day.

9) Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

10) Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer

11) Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you"ll be able to enjoy it a second time.

12) A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for you life.

13) In disagreements with loved, one, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

14) Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

15) Be gentle with the earth.

16) Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.

17) Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

18) Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.