Family Counselling and Support Services for Guelph-Wellington offers a supportive, comfortable and safe place to explore difficult issues affecting your relationships and your life. Our qualified therapists are trained to work with you on troubling matters at home, the workplace or in your personal life. Stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, abuse - everybody needs a little help now and then. No appointment needed walk in counseling is held every Wednesday at the Guelph location. We also have locations in Fergus and Mount Forest. We also have Service Coordinators to assist those clients with developmental challenges.
Call to receive your no-cost 30min consultation for individual, couples, and family counselling. Health insurance coverage, no wait-lists. Visit our website for more details.
London's Patrycja Birbaum MSW RSW is a licensed social worker who has practiced psychotherapy and sex therapy since 2007. Services include ongoing training in the area of couples, family and trauma work. Patrycja believes that her clients are the experts on their lives and bring tremendous wisdom and expertise to therapy. She is honoured to journey with her clients through various life stages and transitions, including some very joyful but also some very painful and difficult chapters. She works collaboratively with clients to provide tools and guidance to promote personal growth and development. Her motto is that no one is lost, but perhaps on a road with no destination, hoping to find a place that they like and want to stay. Contact Patrycja Birbaum for assistance with sexual dysfunction, addiction and couples therapy.
" If you are still breathing then there is more right with you than wrong." - John Kabat Zinn. Helping clients connect to their strengths and to then leverage these traits in service of personal goals of health and happiness briefly describes my orientation to counselling work. My professional training and experience in both business and healthcare, and my personal life path have informed a broad understanding of the challenges faced in living and how to best engage these challenges successfully.
I am an accredited service provider to Employee Assistance Plan managers, Veterans Affairs Canada, and Indigenous Services Canada and also have extensive experience in supporting persons involved with the Justice system of Parole and Probation. Areas of clinical specialization include marital conflict, substance misuse, anger management, and trauma.