THERAPY SESSIONS ARE CONDUCTED THROUGH ON-LINE OR PHONE MEDIUMS ONLY 

​​Overview

We help you work towards making changes that will allow you to thrive in your personal life and relationships. 

 

For many people, taking the first step to getting help is one of the most difficult things to do. It often involves an unsettling process including fear, uncertainty, pondering, and perhaps feelings of guilt, shame, blame, etc. We would like to assure you that all these experiences are normal part of the process of taking the first step towards change. Taking this first step, amidst all these unsettling emotional experiences, signifies that you are no longer willing to live with the uncertainties, hurt, pain, burden, or dissatisfactions which you have been carrying. In fact, taking the first step illustrates that you have come to that crucial awareness that there may be some hope for change in your situation.

Newhope Family Services helps you take that first step. We fan that spark of hope and journey with you towards accomplishing the changes you desire.

Counselling

Counselling is provided in private and confidential sessions in our office. Your therapist meets with you as an individual, couple, or family and works with you to validate your difficulties; assess the details surrounding your particular situation; sort through your options; and helps you gain insights, skills, and resources towards achieving your goals.

Fees: Fees are base on a sliding scale and you may also use your insurance benefits to cover portions of your counselling fees, as is applicable.

Please call our toll free number or send an e-mail to book your initial appointment or for further details.

Training

Let’s face it! We prepare ourselves for most responsibilities we undertake in life. We take driving lessons, train for sports, and get education and training to be the best at our jobs.

Now ask yourself this question: “How much time, effort, and money have I put into equipping myself for the most important aspects of my life – My Personal Well-being and My Relationships”?

Newhope Family Services offers training programs which help to equip you for success in various aspects of your family life. Our training sessions include areas such as marriage preparation, couples seeking to enrich their marriage relationship, and parents seeking to enhance their parenting skills.

Marriage Preparation

  • Increase your understand of the positive and challenging dynamics in your relationship
  • Establish realistic expectations for marriage
  • Gain insights, tools, skills, and resource

Marriage Enrichment

  • Explore common relationship themes         
  • Identify relationship strength and growth areas
  • Gain insights, tools, skills, and resources

Parenting Skills  

  • Increase your knowledge of common child developmental stages and needs
  • Explore common parent-child/teen relationship dynamics
  • Learn effective parenting

Training sessions are scheduled at various intervals in the year, based on achieving a minimum number of registrations. For schedule, fees, and registration details please contact the office. 

Why choose us?

Knowing who to trust when you need help with your delicate life situations can be a challenge. It is highly recommended that you ensure the trustworthiness of the professional that you choose. At Newhope Family Services, Kern Stanberry brings you proven professional credibility, high level of training and experience, and dedication to seeing you and your relationships thrive. In addition to the demonstrated standard of Kern’s work both in his private practice and public agency settings, his professional expertise and status is approved and certified through the following government regulatory and professional bodies where he has achieved the highest level of therapist credential:

  • College of Registered Phychotherapist of Ontario (CRPO) – Registered Psychotheraist. Learn more the CRPO at: www.crpo.ca
  • Ontario Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (OAMFT) – Clinical Fellow. Learn more about the OAMFT at: www.oamft.com
  • Canadian Association for Marriage and Family Therapist  (CAMFT) –  RMFT.  Learn more about the CAMFT at: www.camft.ca/what-is-an-rmft/

You can be confident that by choosing us you are in safe, nurturing, and caring hands.

Please contact us for more information or to make an appointment.