FAQs

Yes! We offer services in person, virtually, and at home (as part of our Intensive Support Program)! We strive to offer services that are effective, sustainable, highly accessible to fit fluidly into your lifestyle. It’s important to us that you are able to choose what works best for you and to access counselling on your own terms.

At Attuned Families, we offer a hybrid delivery model.

In - Office Therapy

Video Virtual Therapy

In home Sessions (as part of our Intensive Support Program)

During your 75 minute Initial Assessment, you can expect to discuss the challenges/issues that brought you to therapy. The associate will guide you in exploring your family history, personal experiences and formulating therapeutic goals moving forward. Your associate may use certain clinical assessment tools to help inform their work with you. It’s also a great time for you to ask any questions you have about therapy and what you can expect from future sessions.

Even for those parents who are more specifically interested in child therapy, Attuned Families recommends that parent(s) attend this first meeting without their child(Ren) present so that you can explore your own experience as a parent and be able to speak freely about your concerns.

Our Initial Assessment is 75 minutes of your time (90 minutes of your Therapist's time). Regular sessions are usually 50 minutes of your time (60 minutes of your Therapist's time) although we do offer some 25 minute brief sessions which can be helpful for quick parent coaching check in’s or for younger clients who would benefit from a shorter session.

Many clients attend weekly or biweekly sessions in order to gain the most benefit from therapy. You and your Therapist will work together to determine the best therapy schedule for you.

Each family and situation is unique. While some clients may feel better or experience a sense of progress after 1 a handful of sessions, many other clients require regular visits over time to start to feel and see more tangible results.

Generally speaking, brief therapy is considered to consist of 12-20 weekly sessions. Since our associates are very busy and their schedules fill up quickly, we strongly recommend booking ahead in 8 week blocks to keep the dates and times that work well for you.

We often use a family therapy model which allows for a lot of flexibility in terms of who attends sessions moving forward. An associate may meet with one family member at a time or any combination of family members. This is determined by your family's needs and availability. We can even effect change for a whole family by starting with just one family member. If an individual or child is reluctant to attend sessions, then we will work with other family members until we’re able to help support the other individual to feel more comfortable engaging in therapy. Our associates are extremely skilled at engaging with reluctant or nervous kids and can use a variety of creative ways to help them feel comfortable in the therapeutic setting.

Your privacy is very important to us. Our practice follows all applicable laws and employs software that is PHIPA compliant to safeguard the security and confidentiality of your personal information. Any information you share with us will be kept strictly confidential except in extraordinary circumstances as outlined under the law. Unless prearranged and agreed to by both parties, we do not communicate about clinical issues via e-mail or text message, due to privacy concerns.

When you complete your intake form, you will receive more information regarding privacy and confidentiality and if you have additional questions please do not hesitate to reach out to us.

Yes. There are certain areas of specialty that are not our area of focus, the treatment of which our infrastructure does not support.

To offer services to families experiencing the following concerns would therefore be unethical and not in the best interests of the families seeking these supports.

If you have any of the following concerns and you complete our contact form, we would be happy to refer you to someone who works within that area of specialty.

High conflict divorce that has or will have Court/Active CAS/Police Involvement

Serious Eating Disorder

Addiction

Abuse/Neglect/Intimate Partner Violence

Active Psychosis

Active Suicidality