Clinical Services: Therapeutic Group Programs for Teens 13-18 years)
GROUP SESSIONS
Find Your Tribe: Therapeutic Tabletop Role Play Group
Thursdays weekly, 4-5:30pm
Ages: 13-18 years
Dive into the world of tabletop role-playing games, and learn to play games such as Dungeons and Dragons. Players will work in a team to vanquish mighty monsters and solve intriguing puzzles in a world full of magic and mystery.
The group encourages participants to develop real-world social, communication, and creative problem-solving skills in a safe and structured environment through teamwork, role-play, and imagination. Let’s roll some dice!
- Therapeutic goals: Growth in pro-social skills, critical thinking, communication, creativity, and collaborative problem-solving.
GROUP SESSIONS
Girls' Talk Therapeutic Group
Tuesdays weekly, 5:15-6pm
Ages: 9-14 years
Is your daughter finding friendships tricky, struggling with confidence, or needing support to manage big emotions? Girls’ Talk is a weekly Creative Arts Therapy group designed to help girls connect, express themselves, and grow in a supportive peer environment.
Led by a Masters-level Creative Arts Therapist, this group uses art-making, creative activities, and teamwork to gently build social and emotional skills in a fun, safe, and nurturing space.
- Build social and friendship skills, increase self-confidence and self-expression, strengthen emotional awareness and regulation, develop coping strategies for big feelings, encourage teamwork and positive peer connections
GROUP SESSIONS
Express Yourself: Therapeutic Drama Group
The structure of the Therapeutic Drama and Social Skills Group incorporates physical, postural, vocal and breathing warm-ups, group team building and trust enhancing activities, scene work, improvisation (solo and group), scriptwriting, movement, mime, directing skills, self-scripted pieces, relaxation and concentration exercises.
- Therapeutic goals: To support teens in developing confidence, social communication, emotional awareness, and self-regulation through engaging drama-based experiences that foster creativity, teamwork, trust, and self-expression.
GROUP SESSIONS
Rhythm for Regulation Teen Edition: Therapeutic Drumming Group
This hands-on program builds teamwork, self-belief and resilience skills using drumming as a tool to promote real discussions around many challenges facing teens.
Using the Drumbeat Resilience Through Rhythm system, this evidence-based program provides a challenging yet safe environment to build both physical and mental skills to help cope with many issues such anxiety, aggressive behaviours and social skills/confidence.
- Ages: 13-18 years
- Therapeutic goals: Boost attention, engagement, motor skills, collaboration and resilience skills.
