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Anger and Stress Management
"Anger is defined as an emotion in response to stressors." Anger is one of the first emotions we feel as an infant and we continue to feel anger for the rest of our lives. Our anger is not dependent on the situation, but how we perceive the situation that leads to the feeling.
In the 10 week, 25 hour program, we will look at the following:
- The positive and negative effects of anger
- Recognizing and using appropriate anger styles
- Communicating effectively, conflict resolution
- What is stress, how it affects us, and how it relates to anger
- Distorted thinking, coping/defense mechanisms
- How expectations, perceptions, shoulds, what ifs, and assuming all cause communication breakdowns and stress
- Learning what your triggers are and how to take back your personal control
- Accepting our emotions and learning effective expression
- Identifying wants, needs, and desires
- Letting go of guilt, shame, and the past
- Families of origin and the challenges they present
- Healthy relationships, co-dependency
- Healthy boundaries, fair fighting, signs of abusive relationships
- Setting goals and preventing relapse
Adult Self -Esteem Group
"Self esteem is defined as a personal judgment of worthiness that is expressed in the attitudes we hold about ourselves. This means that you believe in your capabilities; accept your strengths and limitations; set and work toward realistic goals; develop positive and rewarding relationships, and discover comfort in the world around you."
In the 10 week, 25 hour program we will look at the following:
- Learn how to take back control of your life
- Learn how to improve the quality of your life
- Learn to instinctively see problems and challenges as opportunities to learn, grow, and get ahead, and that no matter how hopeless others may feel, you stay optimistic and live as if each day is a gift
- Enhance your relationships
- Cope with or remove toxic people from your life
- Get rid of unhealthy stress, anxiety, guilt, shame, and perfectionism
- Increase your trust in yourself and others
- Handling irrational beliefs and distorted thinking
- Learning to deal with our emotions
- Overcome fears
- Learn to let go of addictive pleasure seeking (at all costs) thoughts and behaviours
- Learn to let go of jealousy and harmful anger
- Learn to stop blaming other people or situations for your problems
- Learn how to nurture your "inner child"
- Learn how to laugh and enjoy life again
- Learn to love and accept yourself
Building Strong Self-Esteem Youth Group (ages 12-18)
This progrm helps youth build strengths, face challenges, and make healthy choices. The program covers numerous topics and uses both educational and therapeutic techniques.
Building Strong Self-Esteem is based on research showing that youth can make significant changes in their behaviours, attitudes and how they see and feel about themselves by focusing on strengths rather than on problems. I believe that all youth have strengths that can be enhanced if they are treated as unique individuals and have an active say and role in their own learning process and lives.
In the 8 week, 16 hour program we will look at the following:
- Learn what healthy self esteem is
- Learn how to have a healthy acceptance of your own self worth and body image and stop destructive coping mechanisms such as cutting, burning, addictions, eating disorders)
- Learn how to cope with toxic people and influences such as the media, peer pressure and bullying
- Learn how to develop a coping tool box to deal with distorted thinking, negative beliefs, perfectionism, and how to handle emotions (including fears, anxiety, guilt, shame, anger, sadness and frustration)
- Learn how to have healthy relationships both in romantic and other kinds of relationships (i.e. family members, authority figures, friends)
- Learn how to make positive decisions and choices for our lives; instinctively see problems and challenges as opportunities to learn, grow, and get ahead
- Learn to stop blaming other people or situations for your problems and communicate what you need in a healthy, productive and non aggressive manner
Relationship Support Group
This group has been designed to support those individuals who are looking to start a healthy relationship or to enhance their current one. We will also look at other kinds of relationships we wish to strengthen, i.e. work, community, children, relatives, etc. In the workshop, you are asked to look at yourself, your relationships, and what you want to create in a new light.
Please note, this is not a couple's group. Couples' therapy is provided, but not in a group format.
In the 10 week, 20 hour program we will look at the following:
- Improving communication
- Understanding the genders and the different ways we think and communicate
- Abusive and toxic relationships
- Co-dependency and setting healthy boundaries
- Conflict resolution and fair fighting
- Handling intimacy
- Nurturing the relationship and yourself
- Releasing resentments and letting go of past hurts
- Learning to trust again
- Getting your needs and wants met
- Bringing back the fun and romance into the relationship
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