Flourish
WellBeing
Welcome
Flourish WellBeing provides fee for service counselling with a focus on building skills among children, youth and their caregivers. We can work on a variety of skills including how to manage stress, coping skills for anxiety, mindfulness and relaxation tools, learning to manage behaviour. We can also discuss building your tool box as a parent, to support your children/youth with strategies they find useful and supportive.
Krystal Carmichael (She/Her)
For over 15 years, Krystal has dedicated herself to working with children and youth. She is passionate about helping them improve their social skills through therapeutic play and activities. By using these techniques, she helps her young clients discover, learn and practice new strategies that will benefit them in all areas of life, including at home, in school and in the community. Krystal strives to provide the highest level of care possible for every child she works with.
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ABOUT
Services
Child or Youth Support
Group Support
Caregiver Support
Some examples include, but are not limited to:
- Identifying feelings such as happiness, anxiety, frustration, sadness
- Coping strategies and emotional regulation using movement, sensory tools, breathing strategies among others
- Recognizing how our body responds to different feelings
- During group sessions, the child or youth is able to learn from the facilitator, while also learning and hearing from similar aged peers. It can be powerful to have peers to relate to, problem solve with, or learn how strategies can be used in real-life situations.
- Increasing children’s ability to identify emotions and find coping strategies that work for them
- Provide parents with guidance to support their children, rooted in empathy and respect.
- Reduce parent and child conflict
- Assist parents in feeling confident to use the strategies and interventions at home
- Provide guidance tailored to your specific needs, and to empower you with the knowledge and skills to build strong child-parent relationships.
Walk and Talk Support
- What better way to practice strategies than in nature! In-person guided walks using a "walk and talk" model.
- These sessions are in public natural spaces and therefore 100% privacy cannot be guaranteed.
- Weather dependant, these sessions require appropriate attire as physical activity is a component of the model.
- If you choose to participate in Walk and Talk Support, we will discuss any concerns and potential risks to confidentiality. You may change your mind at any point in the session and can return to the office or end the session.
I engage my young clients by using their strengths to guide my interventions. By focusing on and valuing their strengths, it allows them to feel comfortable and safe to express their wants and needs. From there, we work on a plan to reach their goals.
I prioritize caregiver support during this journey with their children/youth. My goal is to help caregivers understand their children/youths strengths and needs more clearly. I can also help families to develop their own coping skills and communication methods to increase mental well-being and decrease conflict in the home.
Some clients prefer to be out in nature during our sessions; especially those who have a harder time opening up. Providing clients with the opportunity to walk alongside me, rather than sitting across from me, can be a very therapeutic experience in itself. Walking and talking also allows the ability to practice tools and strategies in a more natural environment.
what type of support are you looking for?
15 minute phone consultation
Caregiver Support
Child and Youth Support
Walk and Talk Support
This is an initial complementary consultation via google meet or phone call. This service is intended to discuss what supports you’re looking for and to determine the best way to support you and your family
What is a Child and Youth Worker?
The Ontario Association of Child and Youth Care states: “The practice of Child and Youth Care occurs within the context of therapeutic relationships with children and youth who are experiencing difficulties in their lives. Intervention takes place within the family, the community and other social institutions, and centres on promoting emotional, social and behavioural change and well-being through the use of daily life events. Child and youth care practitioners work with children, youth and families with complex needs. They can be found in a variety of settings such as group homes and residential treatment centres, hospitals and community mental health clinics, community-based outreach and school-based programs, parent education and family support programs, as well as in private practice and juvenile justice programs. Child and youth care workers specialize in the development and implementation of therapeutic programs and planned environments, and the utilization of daily life events to facilitate change. At the core of all effective child and youth care practice is a focus on the therapeutic relationship; the application of theory and research about human growth and development to promote the optimal physical, psycho-social, spiritual, cognitive, and emotional development of young people towards a healthy and productive adulthood; and a focus on strengths and assets rather than pathology.”
What can you expect during a session with a Child and Youth Worker?
“The Ontario Association of Child and Youth Care states that the Foundational Attitudes for Professional Child and Youth Care and the Child and Youth Care Professional demonstrates the following attitudes which underlie all professional work:
- Accepts the moral and ethical responsibility inherent in practice
- Promotes the well-being of children, youth and families in a context of respect and collaboration
- Values care as essential for emotional growth, social competence, rehabilitation, and treatment
- Celebrates the strengths generated from cultural and human diversity
- Values individual uniqueness
- Values family, community, culture and human diversity as integral to the developmental and intervention process
- Believes in the potential and empowerment of children, youth, family and community
- Advocates for the rights of children, youth, and families
- Promotes the contribution of professional child and youth care to society”
Investment
Flourish WellBeing is a supervised practitioner. This includes regular clinical supervision with a Registered Social Worker who is in good standing with the Ontario Association of Child and Youth Care (OACYC), as well as the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW). Clinical supervision may provide the opportunity to submit receipts for reimbursement through extended health benefits.
Please speak with your practitioner for more details.
See Investment Chart below to guide you and your practitioner in an agreed upon fee for service.
Iris
-may have insurance to cover the session cost
OR
-has financial security such as: property
ownership and/or personal savings
-able to afford necessities (i.e. food, housing,
medical care) and non-essentials (i.e. travel,
dinners out, buying coffee)
-spends little time worrying about paying bills
or finances
-may consider yourself financially privileged
-During your lifetime, systemic oppression has not
had or is not continually and/or currently impacting the
opportunities available to you.
$125/session
DAISY
-may have insurance to cover a portion of each session/some sessions
OR
-steady income and working towards building your savings or paying off debt
-may need to have some financial awareness or cutbacks for this option resulting in short term financial sacrifice.
-you do not spend much time worrying about affording basic needs (food, housing, medical care)
-may consider yourself adequately resourced
-During the course of your life, you might have encountered systemic oppression due to the effects of colonization, which could have influenced the opportunities available to you.
Price per session- $100
Lily
-have access to necessities (food, housing, medical care) though it may feel difficult
-may worry about paying bills for basic needs and rarely purchases non-essentials (i.e. dinners out, coffees, buying a new outfit)
-may consider yourself economically disadvantaged
-Throughout your lifetime, you continue to encounter systemic oppression due to the effects of colonization - which have significantly influenced the opportunities available to you.
Price per session- $75
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