Our Services
Comprehensive Therapeutic Services
For Children & Families
Individual Therapy
adolescents and adults who may be struggling with a multitude of challenges.
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Our team at Mareas specializes in the following areas:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Trauma
- Self-Harm
- Adult & child ADHD & OCD
- PTSD
- Domestic & Intimate Partner Violence
- Mood Disorders
- Eating Disorders
- Attachment-Relationship Related Issues
Groups
Our groups create a space for children, youth and their caregivers to connect with others facing similar challenges.
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Therapeutic Groups
Through activities and discussion, group members build trust, confidence and resilience together.
Have a specific need? Reach out to us, and we’ll work to create a group tailored to your situation.
- Buildng Attachment through Play Group
- Nurturing your child through Play
- New moms Group
- Divorce mom / dads Group
- Children of Divorce Support Group
- Blended Family Group
- Anxiety Management Strategies for Kids
- Anger Management Strategies for Kids
- Grief and Loss Group for Children
- Expressive Arts Group
- Bullying Prevention Group for Kids
- Foster parent support group
- Adoptive parent support group
- Kin support group
Behaviour Management
& Family Support
Behaviour Management services can be practised and applied in a variety of settings including private homes, clinics, schools and out in the client’s community alongside or in collaboration with other related professionals in the health, social, and education fields.
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Our Specialized Support Workers work one on one with clients to provide respite to families, using their time with the client to build on social and life skills, participate in recreational activities and build positive relationships.
Our Behaviour Specialists work with clients to build strategies, skills, and confidence, improve behaviours and ultimately family relationships. We work in one-to-one sessions or in the home or the community aiming to nurture positive changes in daily life.
At Mareas, Behaviour Specialists work in collaboration as a part of our clinical team with clients who exhibit interfering behaviours related, but not limited to:
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Brain injury
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Developmental delays
- Trauma & Attachment
- Sensory Processing Issues
- Learning Disabilities
- Oppositional Defiance Disorders
Our Behaviour Specialists can help children, youth, and adults in the areas of:
- Independence Skills
- Social & Interpersonal Relationship Building
- Self-Esteem Building
- Personal Goals
- Organization & Executive Functioning
- Personal Growth & Development
Our Family Outreach Specialists support the entire family unit, often collaborating with the Specialized Support Workers or Behaviour Specialists to provide evidence-based strategies and support to the caregivers, family members or community organizations (such as a school) in managing a client’s behaviour, embracing the Mareas holistic approach to treatment.
Our Child Life Specialists (Executive Functioning Instructors) provide life skill strategies and improve executive functioning to children, youth and their families. They provide useful coping strategies through education, preparation and play, to lessen the stress of life events, such as hospitalization, illness, as well as address anxiety, trauma, depression, grief & loss or attachment issues.
Supervised Access
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Our Access Facilitators are trained and skilled in the areas of child development, family relations and risk assessment and are able to supervise access visits within the community and at other locations if required.
ANCILLARY SERVICES
(for organizations and agencies working with families)
- Our facilitators can support and enhance your existing programs and
- Our trained facilitators can also support your current team by providing supervised access at your office, in the community, or client homes.
- This is a customized program and we can modify requests to fit your organization/client’s needs. Our team provides written case notes detailing our observations following each visit.
provide supervised access in a controlled & natural home-like environment to help promote natural family functioning & engagement.
This program is not intended for the purposes of deeming parent capacity.
Speech & Language
Mareas is excited to announce our newest collaboration with Mountain Speech Language Services.
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Speech & Language Services
Mareas is excited to announce our newest collaboration with Mountain Speech Language Services, in keeping with our holistic approach to wrap-around services.
Mountain Speech Language Services assess and treat a wide range of disorders and differences of speech, language, literacy, cognitive communication and swallowing. Our focus is to provide personalized and effective therapy solutions tailored to each individual’s strengths and areas of need.
Respite
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The locations are in Fonthill and Stoney Creek and can be booked and staffed for respite for parents for a client with special needs, or a short-term stay for a child or youth in care. A service agreement can be designed for each specific request.
Mareas is committed to providing quality therapeutic care for the children & youth of our community.
DESIGNED FOR:
• Agencies requiring emergency or temporary care until a more permanent option comes available for a child/youth
• Agencies that may require respite support for their internal homes
• Independent Living Life Skills preparation
• Individual community families requiring occasional respite support
STAFFED BY:
• Experienced Specialized Support & Family Outreach Workers
• Trained in First Aid/CPR, UMAB, Trauma, Mental Health First Aid
FEES: Include: Food, Accommodation & Staffing
• Care Plans custom designed based on need
• Emergency, Weekend & 2 Week plans available
Join Our Team
Please provide your resume and area of interest in working with us.
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