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Type of Service: Counselling
List of Services:
- Individual, couple and family therapy
- Group therapy regarding specific interests such as women's issues
- Vocational assessments
- Therapy and assessments conducted by psychologists
- Consultation services for business or religious organizations.
- Stress, abuse, anxiety, depression, adolescents, addictions
Fee Structure: CCS is incorporated as a not-for-profit agency with a Board drawn from several denominations and professions. Although our therapy is done on a fee-for-service basis, we depend on our supporting community for donations to subsidize therapy for clients who cannot afford the full cost. We issue receipts for donations, as we are a registered charity.
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Names of Staff and their Qualifications:
Kenneth Van Wyk, Executive Director:
Education/Certification:
- M. Phil. F. (Psych),
- M.B.A.,
- (C) OACCPP
Professional Expertise:
- Individual, couple and family therapy
- Men's issues
- Vocational assessments
- Management consulting
Gloria Fiati:
Education/Certification:
Professional Expertise:
- Individual and marriage therapy
- Children's issues
- Psychological assessments for children
- Multicultural counselling issues
Tory Hoff:
Education/Certification:
Professional Expertise:
- Individual and couple therapy
- Adults and adolescents
- Post-traumatic stress due to e.g. abuse and work- and vehicle-related accidents
- Probation mandated counselling
- Problems due to developmental delay
- Personality assessments
Judith Cooke:
Education/Certification:
- B.A.
- M. Div. (Counselling)
Professional Expertise:
- Individual and couple therapy
- Anxiety, depression, grief and loss
- Faith Issues
- Women's Issues
Janice Neal, Associate Director :
Education/Certification:
- M.Div.
- Th.M. in Pastoral Counselling
Professional Expertise:
- Individual couple and family therapy
- Women's Issues
- Faith issues
A. Ross Gibson:
Education/Certification:
Professional Expertise:
- Individual therapy
- Anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, trauma
- Pro-feminist
- Adult children of clergy/missionaries
- Parent and adult child relationships
- Clergy spouse
- Cross cultural issues (First Nations issues)
Gail MacNaughton:
Education/Certification:
Professional Expertise:
- Individual therapy
- Anxiety, depression, grief and loss
- Family relationships
- Women's Issues
Lucy Van Wyk:
Education/Certification:
Professional Expertise:
- Individual, couple and marital therapy
- Women's issues
- Addictions
- Clinical consultation & supervision
Arul Raj Gali, Intern:
Education/Certification:
- B.A., M.A.
- Th.M. in Pastoral Counselling (candidate)
Professional Expertise:
- Individual, couple and family therapy
Winnifred Jarvis, Intern:
Education/Certification:
Professional Expertise:
Kaija Keil, Intern:
Education/Certification:
Professional Expertise:
Ajith Varghese, Intern:
Education/Certification:
- B.A., B.D.
- Th.M. Pastoral (candidate)
Professional Expertise:
- Individual Therapy
- Immigrant Issues
- Elderly
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Mission Statement:
We believe that people are made in the image of God. This image involves all aspects of being human including spiritual, emotional, social, physical, volitional, and fantasy life. This image also involves our relatedness to each other and to God. We are individual selves but are also inextricably in relationship with other people as well as with God.
In our world of individual and corporate sin, persons struggle in some or all aspects of their lives. Many people are able to deal with their problems and challenges on their own, sometimes with the assistance and support of their family and friends. They are helped, as well, when they meet with a community leader they trust such as a pastor. However, for whatever reason, some people require outside assistance which their social network is unable to provide. These people sometimes benefit from meeting with a professional person who is trained to help them in their personal journeys. At Christian Counselling Services we meet with these people, some of whom identify with the Christian faith and others who do not.
A counselling service that helps people deal with their personal difficulties is sometimes understood to be offering assistance in the emotional aspect of human life, or sometimes the overall mental life, and hence to be providing “mental health" services. However, as a result of our conviction that the image of God involves all aspects of being human, we believe that our counselling involves the whole person including the self in relation to other people and God. We respect people who ask us for help and set about the sometimes painful but liberating activity of therapy. Our experience is that God blesses that process, and that healing comes.
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