What is CYSN Family Counselling Support Services?
Social and emotional wellbeing is an essential component of family resiliency in that it fosters healthy family relationships. CYSN Family Counselling Support Services aims to support your family’s positive coping skills and to strengthen your family’s ability to support your child with extra challenges to develop social-emotional competencies. We work with families through their grief and loss in light of a new diagnosis, life transitions, and caring for one or multiple children with complex medical needs.
Who is served?
The Family Counsellor program provides 6 months of counselling support for families with CYSN social workers in Burnaby, New Westminster, Maple Ridge, and the Tri-Cities.
Why is CYSN Family Counselling Support Services Important?
CYSN Family Counselling Support Services can help families gain or enhance the skills they have that foster open communication and a deeper understanding of themselves and others in order to support more positive and meaningful relationships. The Family Counsellor uses evidence-based resources that enable your family to better understand your child’s extra challenges. Together with the counsellor, you will identify effective strategies to further develop and enhance your child and family’s social-emotional competence.
The family counsellor can help provide families with the support and confidence to tackle life’s multiple transitions and challenging situations. It is a voluntary service that is flexible and adaptable to meet your family’s needs in a preventative versus a crisis-based manner.
What Do We Offer?
This program offers 6 months of counselling for parents, family units, siblings, and children with extra challenges. The Family Counsellor will help you identify specific goals to support your family journey, taking into account the place you are in currently and where you see yourself being in the future.
