Individual, family and marital therapy is provided by Mary Joan Brinson at Therapy for Emotional Wellness. Services are provided to children, teens and adults. 

You may benefit from therapy if you experience any of the following:

  • Depression
  • Anxiety and Stress
  • Trauma
  • Loss & Grief
  • Self-esteem Issues
  • Relationship Difficulties
  • Communication Difficulties
  • Parenting Issues
  • Divorce Recovery
  • Coping with Illness or Pain
  • Life Transitions
  • Difficulty Finding & Maintaining an Intimate Relationship


Description of Services

Individual Therapy

Individual therapy will provide you will the opportunity to enhance your quality of life as you:

  • Understand more about your current life and relationships
  • Explore how to deal with problems
  • Connect with your feelings and deepen you sense of identity
  • Know more about your strengths and vulnerabilities
  • Face your fears
  • Improve your self-esteem
  • Discover self-defeating patterns of thoughts and behaviours that get in your way
  • Develop more effective ways of dealing with others
  • Use what you learn about yourself to be more successful, happy, and balanced

           
Marital or Couple Therapy

By working together, you will be guided to find better ways to develop trust, understanding and good feelings within your relationship.  With the help of marital therapy, partners can:

  • Commit to improve their relationship
  • Rebuild trust in a damaged relationship
  • Deal with past disappointments
  • Improve their communication skills
  • Become more understanding and accepting of each other
  • Make a smooth transition from being a couple to being parents
  • Deal with money problems
  • Parent more effectively
  • Negotiate household responsibilities
  • Build intimacy
  • Improve their sexual relationship

Family Therapy

Challenges within families can be complex and complicated as you try to balance the needs of various family members in a variety of situations:  Family therapy will help you:

  • Manage child behaviour effectively
  • Support children through issues of coping, adjustment or loss
  • Transition through the developmental stages of your children with less conflict
  • Enhance communication, problem solving and conflict resolution among family members
  • Cope with separation and divorce
  • Adjust to step-families, blended families, or single parenting

The fees for counselling may be covered by some Extended Health Benefits or Employee Assistance Program.  Ask your provider for details of coverage.