Services

• Group Classes & Workshops
• In Person Counselling
• Phone Counselling
• Couples Counselling
• Teen Counselling
• Corporate Seminars
• French Speaking

Group Classes & Workshops

Many individuals find working with others who face similar struggles is an effective and helpful therapeutic format. In respectful group and class settings, we offer our clients an opportunity to find their solutions and increase their personal skills with regard to a number of different challenges. Please contact us if any of the following groups are of interest to you or your loved ones. Future groups and classes include:

• Anxiety & Stress Relief Class
• Parenting Skills Training (for parents of newborn-teenage kids)
• Teen Support Group
• Anger Management
• Grief and Loss (Bereavement)
• Caregiver Support Group (for those with aging parents/family illness)

In Person Counselling

Our counselling offices are conveniently and discreetly located in the heart of Kitsilano and offer you complete privacy. Our counsellors can schedule appointments during weekdays, evenings and week ends. We try to accommodate you with an appointment within the same week. Our initial assessment serves to help us understand your situation more precisely and give you some skills you can use right away. We can then discuss ways in which we believe we could help you and a ‘guesstimate’ idea of how many sessions this might require. We offer a broad range of counselling services with highly qualified counsellors, therefore, we are able to assist our clients with most challenges. Fees can be discussed directly with the therapist as each therapist has their own fee structure.

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Phone Counselling

Phone Counseling is a unique and additional service that we offer at the Alpine Anxiety & Stress Relief Clinic. This format appeals particularly to those clients who prefer, for one reason or another, to remain in the privacy of their own home or office. Limitations such as time, distance, or discomfort are no longer an obstacle to getting the assistance you are seeking. Our counsellors have expertise in working over the telephone to help you achieve the results you are looking for.

Regular weekly sessions can be scheduled at a day and time that work best for you. We recommend using a headset or speaker phone during these sessions so the body can remain relaxed and free to move as needed. The rate for telephone counselling is the same as our in-house sessions.

Couples Counselling

Problems in intimate relationships such as lack of sexual intimacy, anger, conflict, blended (step) family challenges, betrayal, violence, or separation can lead to symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Likewise, anxiety and depression can have a major impact on your life as a couple. It can lead to breakdown in communication, increased conflict, resentment and lack of sexual intimacy.

Our counsellors understand this relationship between the personal and interpersonal aspects of your life and have qualified skills to help you.

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Teen Counselling

Through specially designed therapy approaches, which promote emotional healing, we focus on helping teens: build self- confidence, improve social skills, and make positive changes in their lives. We assess client needs and then develop an individualized treatment plan. We evaluate progress toward goals on an ongoing basis. These goals may be emotional, behavioural, social or mental in nature.

We offer teens one to one sessions, small-group sessions (co-ed and female-only groups) and telephone sessions.

Benefits of teen counselling include:

• Anxiety and Stress Relief (social, performance, academic, phobias, life choices)
• Relationship challenges (with family, peers, and authority figures)
• Relationship aggression (exclusion, isolation, gossip, bullying, delinquency and violence)
• Self-harming behaviours (drug use, self-injury, eating disorders, promiscuity)
• Body image and self-esteem challenges
• Identity and sexuality struggles (social pressures, confusion, apathy and group membership)

Corporate Seminars

Our therapists are skilled in public speaking and workshop presentations in a wide range of topics related to

• Anxiety
• Stress
• Depression
• Communication Skills
• Conflict Resolution
• Work/Life Balance
• Relationships Skills

Should you wish to have one of us present at an event, please contact our director Claire Maisonneuve to discuss possible options.

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French Speaking

Our receptionist Shalene speaks fluent French and some of our counsellors including Claire Maisonneuve can provide counselling services in French.