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  • Dealing with Handicapped Children and/or adults

    It’s the long weekend so dealing with handicapped children and/or adults becomes increasing difficult.  These are some suggestions so that you (the caregiver) can get rested: make certain you have staff on hand for the long weekend and substitutes in case the help does not arrive. plan meals ahead so there is plenty of food…

  • Mediation

    Mediation as a means of  conflict resolution can prove difficult for individuals who operate from  a creative mind set. These individuals make decisions based on what is important to the couple rather than what the law stipulates.  When selecting a mediator, it is important to note these important distinguishing features about how you make decisions: What…

  • Excellent results for the really tough psychological questions

    Excellent results for the really tough psychological questions

    Excellent results for the really tough psychological questions Flexible availability days, evenings and weekends 8 am – 6pm Fees covered under extended medical benefits GST exempt and considered a health expense

  • Calgary Sex Therapist: What is Sex Therapy?

    Calgary Sex Therapist: What is Sex Therapy?

    Shannon St. Pierre approaches sex therapy from a holistic perspective whereby troubles may be being triggered through emotions, biological channels or both. Uncovering the trigger for the troubles is key to understanding the issue at hand and moving forward. She works in the realm of sexual dysfunction with a focus on erectile dysfunction, sexual addictions…

  • Calgary Family Therapy: What is Family Therapy?

    Calgary Family Therapy: What is Family Therapy?

    Calgary Family Therapy Shannon St Pierre is a true couple’s therapist. She believes in marriage and will believe in your marriage as you work through your difficulties. She will help you rekindle your belief in your marriage and in each other.

  • Calgary Family Mediation: What is Mediation?

    Calgary Family Mediation: What is Mediation?

    The mediation process is interest-based in that it meet the interests of each party involved in the process. An effective mediator builds the process to match the needs of the client (s) so that a whole new process can be built for conflict resolution. In essence, it is tailored to the client…

  • Dealing with children on the autism/aspbergers spectrum

    1. Pay very careful to your child, learning about the child from the child. Your child is their own best expert. Often these children are highly sensitive knowing exactly what is bothering them, assuming of course that they have the ability to speak of their ideas in a coherent way. Effective parenting involves the patience…

  • raising children on the autism spectrum

    Raising children on the autism spectrum is a life changing event. These life changes cause you as a person and as a parent to re-evaluate your new-found identity. It changes your identity of who you are, what you are and what is important to you? How to parent children especially with high functioning autism can…

  • long weekend time again

    Here it is long weekend time again. I wonder to myself having been a family therapist for over a decade, how many family fights will occur and how many of these family fights could be avoided with a little planning. I am expecting my phone to ring off the hook starting Monday and into the…

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