Virtual Group Behavioural Treatment

Do you want to help your child/youth learn how to develop skills to manage their worry and fears? Facing Your Fears will help caregivers and children learn skills to target specific fears or worries that interfere with day-to-day functioning at home and school.  

In this group, caregivers and children work together through interactive activities to help build anxiety management skills based on evidence-based principles of cognitive-behavioural therapy. 

Participants who will thrive in this environment:
- can sit and attend to a screen and participate in lessons for at least 30 minutes or can request a break
- are typically cooperative with adults when given instructions
- can understand basic demands in natural situations
- can imitate gross motor actions in pictures, videos, and from a live model
- can respond to visual supports and/or verbal prompts
- can independently (or with adult support) identify internal feelings or thinking experiences.

This series of virtual groups is offered through a partnership with TVCC's Autism Services and the University of Western Ontario Education Department and Mary J. Wright Child and Youth Development Clinic . This initiative is supported by a MCCSS Ontario Autism Program Workforce Capacity Grant in the Innovation Stream. It is a very exciting opportunity for Behavioural Services and Mental Health Services to work together! 

Dates:  Tuesdays; October 8 - November 26, 2024 
Time:  6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $650.00 for 10 sessions
Location: Virtual - Microsoft Teams
Register: Email Lynn.Seward [at] tvcc.on.ca (Lynn[dot]Seward[at]tvcc[dot]on[dot]ca) with "Facing Your Fears" in the subject line by September 27, 2024. Provide the client name, age and contact information in the body of the email. Please do not include private information. 

Contact Lynn.Seward [at] tvcc.on.ca (Lynn[dot]Seward[at]tvcc[dot]on[dot]ca) with any questions about these programs.