Services & Specialities
Our main goal is to facilitate our clients at the highest standards. We have solutions for every concern in your life. Howard & Associates works with children, youth, adults, seniors, couples, and families. Some of the specialties we work with are first responders, Indigenous population, assessments, injury and return to work, motor vehicle accidents, trauma, PTSD, Anxiety, depression, veterans, victims of crime, LBGTQ+, addictions, ASD, ADHD, Chronic pain, grief, racial identity, ODD, OCD, life coaching, parenting, relationship, and families of all sizes.
For Youth & Young
Adults
KIDS HELP PHONE
Call 1-800-668-6868 (toll-free) or text CONNECT to 686868. Available 24 hours a day to Canadians aged 5 to 29 who want confidential and anonymous care from trained responders.
Additional resources and access to support is available through
Facebook Messenger and the Kids Help Phone website.
Access resources for youth on how to protect and improve their mental health during the pandemic
Approaches we practice, there may be other approaches not listed we can support you with....
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) , Animal-Assisted Therapies (AAT), Art Therapy Attachment-Based Therapy, Behavioral Therapy , Body Mind Centering (BMC), Body-Mind Psychotherapy, Brainspotting, Breathwork, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) , Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) , Collaborative Therapy, Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) , Constructivist Therapy , Eclectic Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Exposure Therapy, Expressive Art Therapy , Expressive Trauma Integration, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Family Constellations Therapy, Family Systems, Feminist Therapy, Gottman Method, Grief Therapy, Holistic Therapy, Mindfulness, Narrative Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Play Therapy, Positive Psychotherapy (PPT), Regression Therapy, Strength-Based Therapy, Structural Therapy, Trauma Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
More information for what would be best suited for you: Types of Mental Health Therapy: Approaches and How They Work
Each therapist will have different insurances they can direct bill for; Please call us at 780-570-1230 to find out more.
Free Consultation: 15 minutes for new clients
Some of our therapists work with several EAP programs, see our partnership page for more information!
FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Hope For Wellness Help Line
Call 1-855-242-3310 (toll-free) or connect to the online Hope for Wellness chat.
Services are available:
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to all Indigenous peoples across Canada who need immediate emotional support, crisis intervention or referrals to community-based services
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experienced and culturally sensitive helpline counsellors can help if you want to talk
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in English and French and, on request, in Cree, Ojibway and Inuktitut
IF YOU'RE IN A CRISIS
If you're in immediate danger or need urgent medical support, call 911.
If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call Talk Suicide Canada at
1-833-456-4566. Support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
For residents of Quebec, call 1-866-277-3553 (24/7) or visit suicide.ca/en.
Visit Talk Suicide Canada for the distress centres and crisis organizations nearest you. If you're experiencing gender-based violence, you can access a crisis line in your province or territory.
HOURS
Monday: 10:00 pm-8:00 pm
Tuesday: 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Wednesday: 9:00 am-8:00 pm
Thursday: 10:00 am-5:00 pm
Friday: 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am-3:00 pm
Sunday: Closed
“What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but it empties today of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes.” ― Raymond L. Cramer
“Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health.”
"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." — Albus Dumbledore.