Areas of practice
- Adolescent Issues
- Anxiety and/or Panic
- Attention Deficit Disorder - ADHD
- Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Bullying - School
- Child Behaviour
- Child Stress and Trauma
- Family Issues
- Learning Disabilities
- Parenting Issues
- Self-Esteem Issues
- Sleep Difficulties-Children
- Stress Management
- Teen Adjustment Issues
Approaches used
- ADD and ADHD Coping Strategies
- Adolescent Therapy
- Child Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Communication Skills Training
- Developmental
- Expressive Arts Therapies
- Family Therapy
- Play Therapy
- Self Regulation Therapy (SRT)
Practice information:
Child and Family Counselling Services
Promoting emotional healing, social development and the formation of healthy relationships.
Paula Jurczak has over nineteen years experience providing counselling and special needs services to individuals, children, adolescents and families.
Methods used are Verbal Approaches, Expressive and Play Therapies, Developmental Play Therapy, DIR Floortime Therapy and Self-Regulation Therapy. Paula works with her clients to find effective therapeutic methods that best suit the needs of the person.
Client difficulites include emotional, cognitive, self-regulation, behavioural, social and sensory difficulties. She works with children of all abilities including those with learning difficulties, giftedness, developmental delays and special needs.
Paula holds a Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors and a Registered Social Worker with the Board of Registration for Social Workers in BC.
Paula's work is informed by current research and emphasizes respect and compassion for her clients. She creates a safe and caring environment that supports and promotes the healthy development of children and families.
Child and Family Counselling Services
Promoting emotional healing, social development and the formation of healthy relationships.
Therapy sessions use a variety of models and approaches including:
Developmental Play Therapy a structured strength based approach to assess and support children's development, emotional, social and behavioral capacities. Children engage in faciliatated play interactions to explore and expand current play preferences. Develop strategies for initiating and responding to play and pragmatic social language and gestures. Develop flexibility, adaptability and problem solving skills through natural experiences and exploratory play. Challenging educational concepts are explored and understood through interest based thematic play to foster social, communicative and play competencies.
Self-Regulation Therapy to understand and manage energy states, emotions and behaviors and attention across all areas of development -biological, emotional, cognitive, social and pro-social; in ways that are socially acceptable and help to attain positive goals such as learning, maintaining healthy relationships and well-being.
DIR Floortime Therapy a research based model to help children and families with special needs build healthy foundations for social, emotional, and intellectual capacities rather than focusing on isolated behaviors. DIR Floortime follows the child's natural emotions and interests to help the child master the building blocks of regulation, relating, communicating and thinking at successively higher levels of complexity to enjoy relationships and strengthen academic skills.
Family Therapy working with families together in order to strengthen relationships, help family members understand, accept and support each other and cope with change differently.
Part or all of counselling service fees may be covered by Autism Funds, Crime Victims Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs or Extended Medical Plans.
Specialized training:
- DIR Floortime Clinician and Expert Trainer Self-Regulation Consultant