About Us

Why Counselling & Life Coaching?

• They often need it.
• It is important to talk about life's events and feelings to someone outside the family.
• Some self knowledge is important to kids as they grow up.
• Prevention is better than cure. Let's be proactive.
• School can cause issues eg bullying
• Normalizing is essential to kids understanding of their place in the world.
• To encourage them to look for the answers in their own hearts.
• Kids need guidance in finding goals and making plans.
• Everyone needs someone to touch base with at different times in life.
• Parents can't be and do everything for their children.
• Often the problems are with parents so a counsellor, mentor, net work person or teacher is very important to kids.
• Children want to discover life and some have an innate need to ask why and how?
• Parents often can't cope alone with their children's behaviors and attitudes.
• Life presents trauma to many children and they need to unburden.
• Many parents talk too openly to children or in front of children, telling them too much.
• Connecting feelings and behaviors is a challenge to kids.
• Early education in counselling removes the I must be going crazy belief held by many adults.
• To receive positive modelling from someone who is trained and experienced in listening to what is really being said.
• World events make it essential.

• All human beings have needs.
• It is normal for human beings to try to get what they need and what they want.
• It is normal for human beings not to get what they need and/or want.
• Needs and wants are different and need to be defined.
• It is normal for human beings to feel all kinds of emotions throughout life.
• Being able to trust others is your right.
• It is normal to feel all kinds of emotions when your needs are not met and when they are met.
• Human beings need to love and be loved.
• We can get angry because of feelings like frustration or rejection.
• It is O.K. to feel angry with people including parents. Its what you do with anger that matters.
• You have to learn what to do about your feelings and not sit on them, swallow them or throw them at someone.
• How to define behavior and name their own behavioral issues eg I am a very anxious person .......... therefore I .......... but I can help myself and others by ..........
• Talking about your feelings is called communication and it's very important.
• You are not going crazy if you go to a counsellor.
• Sharing happy and loving feelings is also normal and very important.
• Going to counselling is no one elses business but yours.
• Some times people won't let others love them because they don't like themselves very much.
• Loving yourself does not mean being up yourself. It means having a positive view of yourself as a good and loving person.
• Having positive self esteem is very important and all parents want it for their kids and themselves.
• That focusing, goal setting and reaching goals in life is very important.
• Parents are human too.
• Families don't have to be battle grounds.