Chilliwack and Fraser Health Rural

Counselling & Therapy services for all ages, sex and gender. Counselling and therapy can be done in men's, women's, child and youth parenting groups. Workshops are also provided for enhancing couple communication, handling personal conflict and enhancing connections within families.

The counselling and therapy programs are:

- Stopping the Violence (STV) Counselling Program: Offers free individual and group counselling to women 18 and over who have experienced family violence, sexual assault, or historical abuse of any kind. The emphasis of counselling can be placed on any kind of suffering in any form of current or past abuse; emotional, physical, verbal, sexual, religious, psychological, financial or social.
- Play Therapy: One-to-one therapy with children, and with their families, using a wide range of techniques that compliment play therapy and attachment theory.
- Youth Counselling: Offers a wide range of counselling specified for but not limited to; anxiety, depression, sexual abuse, bullying. Counsellors work with youth and their parents in efforts to influence needed conversations and to reduce emotional irritability.
- Men's Counselling : Designed to promote the wellbeing of men, their relationships, and their families. Preventative in nature, this time is designed to enable men to build and nurture positive self-esteem for themselves, thereby improving their relationships. This service addresses the health and welfare of men by empowering men to make healthy choices in their lives and to establish strong support networks and violence-free relationships.
- Couples Counselling : Couple’s therapy is used as a preventive measure to promote violence-free relationships, which includes emotional and verbal violence as well.
- Family Counselling: Family therapy is used as a preventive measure to promote a violence-free family. Families are able to attend sessions and receive therapy for a variety of reasons, including wanting to improve communication, resolve conflict, and gain skills in respectful parenting and partnering.
- PEACE Group: A psycho-educational group for children and youth who have witnessed abuse, threats, or violence in the home.
- Connect Parenting : 10-week program designed to support parents of pre-teens, ages 8-12. Each session provides parents with a new perspective on parent-child relationships and pre-adolescent development. The program recognizes that each parent-child relationship is different, so rather than teach one specific way to parent we help parents see choices that support healthy relationships with setting limits and helping their child grow.
- Understanding Abuse Group: This is a women's group that provides participants with information about the different types of abuse and how they may manifest in relationships. We will discuss the impacts of abuse and the importance of self-compassion. Participants will also learn how to set and maintain healthy boundaries with partners, family and friends. Assertiveness training is incorporated into this program in order to help participants achieve a healthy and balanced life.
- Women’s Self-Management of Anger: This is a group designed to teach women about learning how to manage anger through assertive communication, emotional regulation, and relaxation techniques. Clients will learn how to notice and identify their emotional landscape to be better able to cope with overwhelming feelings. - Men’s Self-Management of Anger: This Self-Management Anger class teaches men how to learn to take responsibility for managing their own self and their feelings, primarily the feeling of anger. You will learn where your anger comes from and how to identify it before it becomes a problem.
- Men’s Insight Group: The Men’s Insight Group is a group of 10 to 12 men who gather weekly in the evening to share and discuss matters and issues that affect their daily lives in a confidential setting. The goal is to promote and raise insight of men in their relationships in their families, at their workplaces, and in the community.
- CIB (Children In Between):Children In Between is a program designed to teach parents and children the impact of children witnessing relationship conflicts between their parents. The program will teach parents how to support and assist their children as they adapt to changing family relations, and help children learn how to articulate their needs and feelings to their parent(s).

Workshops consist of:

- Couples Communication: Designed to help couples communicate and manage conflict more effectively. The workshop is 10 hours and runs Friday evening from 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM and Saturday from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Couples focus on how communicating with each other and how hearing and listening are vastly different.
- Handling Conflict: Designed to be a follow-up to our first workshop, “Couples Communication”. Goes deeper into exploring the impact that each individual in the relationship can have
- Enhancing Connection: Designed to help couples understand each other’s needs & emotional language to allow a deeper connection. Often the root of conflict & disconnection is unmet/misread needs.