Bright Minds provides specialized care for the entire family.

We offer:

• child and youth counselling

• parenting counselling (support and skills)

• co-parent counselling for separated couples (difficult family dynamics and transitions)

• family counselling

Our child, youth and teen mental health practice provides specialized treatment for clients dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, self-harm and other mental health challenges. We serve a diverse population and tailor our evidence-based approaches to each individual's unique needs. Our therapies are grounded in the latest research on neurobiology, attachment theory, and the healing power of play.

For our younger clients, therapeutic play is core to promoting healthy brain development, emotional processing, and social skills. Through carefully guided play therapy sessions, children gain self-confidence, learn to navigate conflicts and fears, and light up the cognitive centers of the brain involved in attention, memory, language, interpreting social cues, and integrating emotions. Our skilled child therapists attentively observe play themes and patterns that emerge, using the safe space of therapy to help children master their struggles and build resilience. Treatment is delivered in a warm, caring environment to nurture each child's inner resources and strengths as they learn, grow, and overcome difficulties interfering with their wellbeing. By combining neuroscience, attachment principles, and the curative potential of play, we help young people get back on track and thrive.

Videos that describe play therapy and why it is used instead of ‘talk-therapy’ with children (ages 4-12) can be found here.

We also work with caregivers/parents to support: change across environments, their child(ren)’s behavioural or mood concerns, regulation skills, co-parenting and separation/divorce transitions, and family therapy.

Extended Benefits: Services provided by CPCA & BCACC counsellors are covered by most insurers that allow work with a clinical counsellor: Pacific Blue Cross, Sunlife Financial, Manulife, Morneau Shepell, GreenShield, Aspiria, Great West Life & more.

Click the button below to book a complimentary 20-minute phone consultation to see if our services are the right fit for you or your child (please choose “New Client Consultation”).