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Therapy Services for Youth, Teens and Families
At Hearts Together Therapy, our therapists provide compassionate, personalized therapy services for youth, teens and families dealing with anxiety, depression, self-harm, and family conflict. Our licensed therapists use evidence-based treatments and a holistic approach to support your mental health. Whether you need individual therapy, family counselling, or assessments, our tailored services empower you on your journey.
Our Services
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
At Hearts Together Therapy, our therapists provide a safe and supportive space for children, youth, teens, young adults, adults, and seniors to explore their emotions, challenges and relationships. Our goal is to empower you with the tools you need to cope, heal, and build resilience.
Therapy sessions are personalized to an address a wide range of issues including: anxiety, depression, substance use, self-harm, family conflict and trauma.
ASSESSMENT (DIAGNOSIS)
Assessment and diagnosis services offer a thorough clinical formulation of the mental health challenges that you or your child may be facing. A clinical professional will conduct comprehensive evaluations to accurately identify mental health conditions. A clear diagnosis can help to create a targeted and effective treatment plan and provide advocacy for medication interventions.
Our psychotherapists diagnose a range of issues including, but not limited to: depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, psychotic disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, eating disorders, and substance use disorders. Please note: our therapists do not provide autism or ADHD assessments, however can provide referral support.
FAMILY THERAPY
When it comes to therapy, we know that involving families are a key part of the solution. Our therapists work with your family to support you in engaging in learning skills to have a constructive dialogue and sharing more with one another in a safe space supported by a trained mental health therapist.
COUPLES THERAPY
We know there are significant stressors in maintaining a healthy couples relationship amongst life and work stressors, mental health challenges, navigating family dynamics, and maintain financial stability, or raising children in a metropolitan city. Our therapists are trained to help you work through improving your emotional and physical connection, communication patterns, identify unmet needs, and improving practical task divisions to maintain a healthy relationship.
PARENT COACHING & CHILD BEHAVIOUR MODIFICATION
At the heart of what we do, our therapists are well-trained in working with parents navigating supports for their children’s mental health and well-being. We know how hard of a job parenting is, and our therapists work closely to provide you with the support you need to love and care for your child.
Children do well when they know how to. Our expert behaviour team provides support to identify the reasons for your child’s behaviour and help support you as a family to find replacement behaviours they can use instead. We then utilize behavioural rehearsal and exposure repetition to support the youth with improving their emotional regulation skills and coping strategies.
BRIEF CASE MANAGEMENT/SYSTEM NAVIGATION
With education as Registered Social Workers, our therapists recognize the importance of helping you access appropriate community resources to improve your socio-emotional well-being. We know that it’s difficult to focus on yours or your child’s mental health when your family’s basic needs are not being met. We know that all problems cannot be resolved with psychotherapy and therefore would love to work to identify through a comprehensive Needs Assessment if brief case management supports will help jump-start your mental health journey.
Please book a session under our Case Management / System Navigation service.
PEERS® GROUP RICHMOND
Hearts Together Therapy works in partnership with PEERS® Group Richmond to offer evidence-based social skills training for teens and young adults who want to build and maintain meaningful friendships and relationships. Discover upcoming workshops, or learn more about how this program can support you.
Conditions We Support
Mental Health Issues We Specialize In
DEPRESSION
A persistent feeling of sadness, hopelessness and dread. A loss of interest in activities you use to enjoy. Low energy, tiredness, difficulty with sleep and wakefulness that affects your daily life and sense well-being.
EMOTION DYSREGULATION
Difficulty managing and coping with intense emotions in a healthy way that works, leading to explosive behaviours or numbing of emotions.
ADHD
A neurodiversity marked by mind-wandering tendencies, inattentiveness and/or hyperactivity.
SELF HARM & SUICIDAL THOUGHTS
Actions taken to deliberately harm yourself or thoughts of ending your own life, often stemming from intense emotional pain and suffering.
ANXIETY
Persistent and excessive worry or fear that interferes with daily activities and can cause physical symptoms like rapid heart rate, restlessness and fatigue.
AUTISM
A neurodiversity marked by a different way of thinking and experiencing the world, including personal sensory needs.
Practices We Use
Therapy Modalities
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
An evidence-based skills focused treatment for emotion dysregulation symptoms. This can include the experience of intense emotions resulting in high verbal conflict, aggression, self-harm, suicidal thoughts/behaviour, low mood, high anxiety, substance use and/or numbing of emotions.
What to Expect in Therapy
Therapy for Children and Families
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Getting to Know You
We start by getting to know you. No assumptions. No judgement. We want you to feel safe, so you can feel comfortable opening up to us honestly.
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Creating a Plan
We come up with a plan that’s personal and unique to your situation and your goals for therapy. We come up with some strategies and coping skills you can use to help you in your daily life.
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