SERVICES OFFERED
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BEHAVIOUR CONSULTATION
A Behaviour Consultation is the first step in the service process and helps determine whether behaviour therapy and consultation are the right fit for your child and family. This meeting is designed to gather important information, review your concerns, and begin building a clear understanding of your child’s strengths, needs, and areas where support may be helpful.
During the consultation, we may discuss your child’s developmental history, communication skills, emotional regulation, routines, social development, independence, learning profile, and any behaviour concerns across home, school, daycare, or community settings. We may also review relevant background information such as previous services, assessments, diagnoses, supports already in place, and your goals or priorities as a parent or caregiver.
This meeting provides space to ask questions, share concerns, and talk through what support may look like. We may discuss whether direct one-to-one sessions, parent and caregiver coaching, collaboration with school or daycare, or a combination of supports would be most appropriate. The consultation also helps identify whether further assessment, observation, or data collection may be needed before moving into ongoing services.
If services are determined to be a good fit, next steps may include completing consent forms, scheduling observation or assessment sessions, beginning pairing and rapport-building sessions, and developing an individualized intervention plan. The overall goal of the consultation is to create a thoughtful and supportive starting point, while ensuring that services are tailored to the unique needs of your child and family.
INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOUR THERAPY SESSIONS
Individual Behaviour Therapy Sessions are one-to-one sessions designed to support your child’s unique strengths, needs, and goals. These sessions focus on helping children build meaningful skills, increase independence, and reduce barriers that may interfere with success at home, school, daycare, and in the community.
Services often begin with pairing and rapport building, which means creating a positive and trusting relationship between the child and therapist. Pairing is an important foundation that helps sessions feel safe, supportive, and engaging, while also building motivation and readiness for learning.
Individual sessions may also include assessment and ongoing observation to better understand your child’s current skills, learning style, motivators, strengths, behaviour patterns, and areas of need. Assessment may involve caregiver interviews, direct observation, informal tools, review of concerns across settings, and collection of baseline data to guide goal development and programming.
Based on this information, an individualized intervention plan may be developed. This plan outlines meaningful goals, teaching strategies, supports, and recommendations tailored to your child and family. Goals may focus on communication, emotional regulation, flexibility, social skills, play skills, daily living skills, toileting, school readiness, independence, and behaviours that may interfere with participation or quality of life.
Sessions may incorporate a range of evidence-based interventions and programs depending on the child’s age, profile, and goals. These may include natural environment teaching, play-based intervention, behaviour skills training, functional communication training, visual supports, prompting and reinforcement strategies, emotional regulation supports, social skills instruction, individualized skill acquisition programming, and behaviour support planning. When appropriate, sessions may also draw from approaches such as PFA-SBT, ESDM, and other evidence-informed ABA-based interventions.
Data collection and progress monitoring are an important part of therapy and may be used to track skill development, monitor behaviour patterns, guide decision-making, and ensure services remain individualized and effective over time. Data may look different depending on the goal and can include frequency, duration, independence levels, prompts needed, or acquisition of new skills.
A key goal of therapy is generalization, which means helping children use their skills across different people, settings, materials, and daily routines rather than only during sessions. Therapy also focuses on maintenance, which means continuing to practice and strengthen learned skills over time so they remain meaningful, functional, and lasting.
Overall, Individual Behaviour Therapy Sessions are designed to be practical, compassionate, and goal-focused, with support tailored to the child and family’s everyday life.
PARENT AND CAREGIVER COACHING
Parent and Caregiver Coaching is designed to support the adults in a child’s life by building confidence, understanding, and practical strategies that can be used in everyday routines and situations. These sessions focus on helping caregivers better understand behaviour, support skill development, and respond in ways that are consistent, compassionate, and effective.
Coaching is individualized to the child and family’s needs and may focus on areas such as emotional regulation, communication, routines, transitions, independence, play, social development, school readiness, and behaviour concerns at home or in the community. Sessions may involve reviewing current challenges, identifying patterns, discussing possible reasons behaviour is occurring, and creating realistic plans that fit the family’s values, priorities, and day-to-day life.
Parent and caregiver coaching may include education around behaviour principles, support with teaching replacement skills, help creating visual supports or home routines, guidance around transitions and expectations, and collaborative problem-solving around situations that feel challenging or stuck. Sessions may also include modeling, feedback, and practice so that strategies feel manageable and meaningful to use in real life.
When a child is receiving direct therapy, coaching can also play an important role in supporting generalization and maintenance. This means helping families carry strategies into daily routines, use the same supports across settings, and continue practicing skills outside of therapy sessions so progress is more consistent and lasting.
The goal of Parent and Caregiver Coaching is to help families feel supported, empowered, and more confident in using practical, evidence-informed strategies that promote connection, skill development, and success in everyday life.