About the Growth Group
Health Care Professionals
The Growth Group's mission is to assist you to progress from “trauma to triumph” and achieve effective personal growth of mind, body and spirit to reach your personal goals.
The Growth Group training assumes a holistic client centred approach which ensures that we are working with individuals according to their style, preference and capabilities. This can range from basic level health teaching in specific areas such as developing self-esteem, self-awareness, personal boundaries, communication strategies, emotional connection, social skills, stress management, anger treatment and improving personal judgment and insight. The Growth Group often progress to more sophisticated, in-depth levels related to personal self-excavation using a variety of psychotherapeutic approaches. A blending of cognitive-behavioural techniques may be added to accomplish progress and achieve successful lifestyle choices.
As Regulated Health Care Professionals, the Growth Group is required to be registered with our Professional College. The College is the regulating body for our professions and has been established by the Provincial Government to monitor the practice of all registrants. This protects you, the client, by ensuring that we provide counselling which is ethical and follows professional guidelines according to the standards of our profession. Feel reassured that the College enables you to address any questions you may have about the service you receive.
The Growth Group has been providing counselling to the area for the past thirty years to individuals who are age fifteen and older. Our ongoing desire for professional growth has challenged us to explore increasingly complex mental health issues. We have augmented our skills with continuing education and intensive training in a variety of therapeutic modalities and counselling strategies. We work with a diverse range of complex issues including Mood Disorders, Treatment Resistant Anxiety/Panic Disorders, Eating Disorders, Adult and Adolescent Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, couples Conflict Resolution, Brief Strategic Interventions and Past Childhood Trauma Recovery Work from Emotional/Verbal/Physical/Sexual Abuse, and support services help cancer patients. Wanda and Collette have attended Harvard in the fall of 2011 and are accredited for psycotherapy for all of the different types of Cancer. You may contact us by either Physician or direct referral. Our professional designations allow us to offer you an income tax receipt.
In our practice we have noted how people become more aware of the symptoms and issues of Depression during the winter months. In that regard The Growth Group felt it was timely to look at the different faces of Depression. In our office, Depression has many different origins and manifestations in a variety of ways unique to each individual. We deal with these complexities in a very in-depth manner in a team oriented approach.
This latest edition of the Growth Group booklets helps define the intricacies of the many types of Depression. We are available for consultation should you have any questions after reading the various articles contained in the booklet.
