Concerns
This list isn’t exhaustive, but it reflects the common themes we see at the Clinic. What sets us apart is our holistic approach: we support a wide range of needs across every age and stage, from young children to adults.
ADHD
Understanding ADHD ADHD doesn’t have an age limit. At Canoe Therapy, we support children, teens, and adults, along with the families who love them. Whether you’re a parent trying to make sense of what your child is going through, a young person who’s tired of feeling misunderstood, or an adult who’s wondered about your own lifelong struggles with focus and
Anxiety
Anxiety is considered a mood disorder, which can be characterized by worry, fear and anxiousness that is persistent, irrational and overwhelming. Children might be experience anxiety due to another underlying cause, such as bullying.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) impacts every person differently as there are a range of variations in the way it can present. The first step to identifying if your child has Autism is noticing the signs of this disorder in their behavior.
Depression
A depressive mood disorder in children involves a pervasive mood change that negatively affects the way they feel, think and function. Identifying depression in children can be tough as they’re still learning how to express feelings and emotions.
Emotional-Regulation
Understanding Emotional Regulation: A Guide for Parents Every parent knows the moment: a small disappointment turns into a full meltdown, a minor mix-up spirals into a shouting match, or your teen shuts the door and shuts you out entirely. It can leave you wondering whether this is just a phase, a personality trait, or something more. Often, when a child
Learning Challenges
Understanding Learning Challenges: A Guide for Parents Learning challenges are common and vary greatly from child to child. Often an undiagnosed learning challenge is mislabeled as a bad attitude, laziness or procrastination. Parents often feel their child is capable and therefore become frustrated when grades come home lower than expected. The answer often comes down to neurodiversity: the simple, important
Mental Health
Mental Health: Support for Children, Teens and Adults Mental health is simply the overall wellness of how we think, how we manage our feelings, and how we behave. It is the cornerstone to how we experience life, for the better or worse. Like physical health, it can be strong some seasons and shaky in others, but can always be improved
Motor Skills
We know there’s more to playtime than meets the eye. Play is child’s work. Through play, a child learns the key skills of life – to think abstractly, interact with others, solve challenges, move their body, navigate their environment, and regulate their emotions and sensory systems.
Parent Guidance
Our therapists can help parents with everyday issues such as homework, screen time, and curfews and teen issues. As well, we can coach parents on how to help support their children’s mental health struggles. If parents feel prepared and confident, they can offer nourishing support that will really make a difference in their kids’ lives.
School Refusal
Understanding School Refusal: A Guide for Parents Children and teens refusing to attend school has increased greatly over the past 10 years. It often starts with subtle resistance to getting out of bed or getting dressed but can progress to full refusal to leave the house or get on the bus. Mornings are already stressful for families trying to rush
Sensory Processing
Sensory Processing challenges significantly affect a child’s everyday activities. Sensory processing refers to the way the nervous system takes in information from the senses and turns them into appropriate motor and behavioural responses.
Speech and Language Concerns
Speech is an integral part of life and is developed in the earliest years of childhood. Many factors can interfere with a child’s ability to communicate, including physical difficulties, hearing problems, language delays and cognitive challenges.
Co-Parenting
Co-Parenting Counselling Support Working together for your child, even when it’s hard. Co-parenting is rarely simple. Whether you’re separated, divorced, blending families, or sharing parenting across two homes, it can bring up stress, disagreement, and worry about how your child is coping. You don’t have to figure it out alone, and needing support doesn’t mean you’re doing anything wrong. How