Catholic Family Services - Peel Dufferin // Counselling Programs

Brief Intervention Program

In our lives sometimes an idea or suggestion is enough to provide the necessary means for finding solutions for problems or for making a change. Seeing the situation from a different outlook, broadening our point of view, or being exposed to a new approach to an old problem or issue can be all we need to get us through a tough situation, or to help us fit the last piece into a puzzle that we have been working on for a long time.

The Brief Intervention Program aims to offer new ways of looking at problems as well as practical skills that clients might use to deal with problems and/or make changes in their lives.

The Brief Intervention Program is set up as a series of three focused consultation-style interviews allowing clients the opportunity to work together with the counsellor, or sometimes a counselling team, on a plan that can be used to deal with problems and work towards change. In discussion with the BIP therapist after the 3 sessions, clients can decide whether continued counselling might fit their needs. If so, they may be referred to our regular stream counselling program or to another internal or community-based program.

Quick Access Program

Offered at both our Brampton and Mississauga locations (day or evening appointments), this program is for clients who have been exposed to a traumatic incident (ie., victim of a crime, woman abuse, survivor of childhood trauma, grief, and loss) and who are suffering discomfort as a result of the trauma.

The Quick Access Program provides brief counselling (1-6 sessions), crisis intervention, assessment, advocacy and/or referral to trauma and abuse survivors. There is usually no wait list for this program.

High risk or recent attempted suicide will be referred to other resources.

Regular Stream Counselling

Sometimes the preparation required to initiate and manage change takes more than a new idea or fresh way of seeing things. It can require time and energy to develop the understanding, ability and skills to take the steps towards change that we desire in our lives.

In order to respond to the variety of issues that clients bring to counselling, as well as promote the kind of change clients wish to achieve, Catholic Family Services of Peel-Dufferin offers a longer-term counselling option. This way of working can allow greater time and energy to be spent in the therapeutic partnership.

Clients are offered up to nineteen sessions in this program.