Simply Support Sessions are an opportunity to receive support from a Registered Professional Therapist at a more cost-effective rate than individual therapy, providing a chance to maximize your benefits budget.
What are Simply Support Sessions?
Simply Support Sessions are an opportunity to receive support from a Registered Professional Therapist at a more cost-effective rate than individual therapy. The time commitment is short (2 sessions that are 2 hours long each, for a total commitment of 4 hours). Also, the sessions are available on evenings and weekends, as well as either in-person or online, to best meet your schedule. The best part: you will leave the sessions with practical strategies, interventions, tools, and abilities, that can be easily integrated into your everyday life – right away!
How are the Simply Support Sessions different from Individual Therapy Sessions?
These sessions present an opportunity to participate with 4 to 12 other people that are struggling with similar concerns and challenges you might be facing. This style of therapy creates the opportunity to not only hear from others that might be voicing concerns you might have, but also the chance to learn from your peers! The guidance of your facilitator (a Registered Professional Therapist) provides structure and critical tools to guide the conversation, and you have the added benefit of hearing from others in the group (whether they are sharing their own story, or asking questions that maybe you don’t want to ask!). Eliminating or reducing isolation in our hectic and frustrating pandemic situation is one of the best things we can do right now.
Simply Support Sessions Topics:
Mindfulness: Processing, Grounding and Experiencing Emotions
This unique opportunity focuses on strategies and methods for improving your communication with those that matter the most to you. You will be given specific tools to improve your processing of difficult emotions through mindfulness and grounding techniques. These sessions are offered either for the individual (adult seeking support for themselves), or as a family (parent seeking support for help with their child).
Young Adult Connect (18 to 26 years old): Meaning, Connection and Finding Yourself
This group focuses on finding meaning in your life. The past two year of the pandemic have presented a unique challenge, and we require some time to understand the resulting impacts of our isolation and lack of control. These sessions will help to illuminate your meaning in life by assisting you to move toward the person you want to be: you will learn specific strategies to get you there.
Discover your Values: Defining, Mapping and Taking Action
Use this opportunity to understand and discover what really matters to you: your values. Takethis one step further by identifying how you can get to those important values, and experience the life-changing occurrence of living according to your values! This will bring more of a sense of control, and ultimately, happiness. Something we all need right now!
The Storm of Post-Partum Life: Connect, Learn and Engage through the Chaos
If you’re a new mother struggling to connect with others: You are not alone. Join these sessionsto fulfill that critical need to connect, share, and be heard. No topic is off the table – this isdesigned to be a space where you share the good, the bad, and the ugly, of motherhood andparenting. These sessions can help to start to build your “village” of support to get through those early stages of parenting newborns, babies, and toddlers (none of which is easy or how “they” told you it would be!).
There is a Fix for that: Hacking Balance, Tough Stuff and Getting the Tools for Men Only
In talking about what matters, we offer a place to connect, feel a sense ofcomradery, and find hope that happiness is possible. These sessions will offer specific andpractical tools to navigate the tough stuff in life (relationships, careers, and societalexpectations). These sessions will be designed to get it all out on the table, and importantly, findsome simple solutions to move forward.
Get off the Divorce Rollercoaster: Finding Balance, Prioritizing and Understanding the Next Chapter
The emotional rollercoaster of a divorce is definitely one that should be talked about. There aresome pretty muddy waters for your new relationships, parenting, and work-life balance. Use these sessions to gain some new strategies and tips for navigating these changes, and move onto the next chapter of your life successfully and with a smooth transition. Take the opportunity to also build a new and supportive community experiencing similar challenges along the way.
A Place to Land for Women: Connecting, Learning and Feeling
We already know this to be true: these past two years have made it incredibly challenging tostay truly connected to our support system. Nothing matches a good heart to heart (especially over coffee, tea, or wine – whatever your beverage of choice – no judgment!). These sessionswill help to create that connection you crave and to share struggles faced by women with navigating our identities, and societal expectations. Specific strategies and tools will help you to reframe how we face and deal with some of life’s struggles.
Starting a Family in the 21st Century: Infertility, Loss and Things not Going According to Plan
Well, it’s not what they promised in your primary education experience of getting pregnant, isit? Or, maybe, your idea of a “family” does not look like what you’ve been told it should look like. Sometimes, it takes time, heartache, loss, and science, to make things happen for growing a family. Join this group to share and hear from others experiencing the challenging and complex world of building a family. Knowing you’re not alone in this journey is a relief in and of itself, so test out these sessions to see what a difference having a connection with others can make!
The Battle of Getting Back to School: Avoidance, Refusal, and Attendance Issues
Are you a parent that is struggling with your child’s attendance at school? You are not alone. School refusal is more common than you think, and can be a stressful experience for both children and the parents. In this session, parents will learn specific strategies to guide your child’s return to school, your own wellness, and create confidence in navigating the school systems.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does your benefit allowance cover a minimal amount of support?
Simply Support Sessions will maximize your budget by providing a greater number of therapy hours at a reduced cost (8 hours of therapy for $400).
Does your benefit plan require you to pay up front, or are you lacking benefit coverage completely?
Simply Support Sessions offers a price reduced option to access support from a Registered Professional (provides you with 4 hours of therapy for a total of only $200).
Does your benefit plan only cover psychological services under extended benefits?
Simply Support Services provides the support of a Registered Professional to ensure professionalism, efficacy, and eligibility to claim on your extended health benefits.
Do you have limitations on being able to commit to therapy over the long term?
Simply Support Services is available when it is most convenient for you (evenings and weekends), and the commitment is only 4 hours total, over 2 weeks (2 sessions of 2 hours each).
Do you ever have the thought, “I must be the only one living with this problem, there is no way people around me think the same way”?
Simply Support Sessions will prove you wrong. It offers an excellent way to connect with others that are actually struggling with very similar issues. This presents an opportunity to learn from each other under the guidance of a Registered Professional Therapist.
Are you looking for something that will be both practical and immediately effective?
Simply Support Sessions are grounded in the simplicity philosophy – we keep it simple: few sessions with maximized results, that can be implemented and used right away. You will leave your first session with strategies that are simple, easily integrated, and ready to use.
Would you rather have sessions with other people in real time or from the comfort of your home?
Good news – Simply Support Sessions are offered both online and in-person. This will provide you with the ultimate flexibility to choose how you wish to attend, meeting the needs of your busy life!
Get Started with Simply Counselling
Interested in joining one of the Simply Support Sessions listed above? Provide us with some information and we will match you to the best fit for a session right away.
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Land Acknowledgement
In the spirit of respect and truth, Simply Counselling Services acknowledges the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprising the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations), as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations). The City of Calgary is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.