Children’s Centre Thunder Bay

The Children’s Centre offers a continuum of children’s mental health services that range from a single session counselling through brief services to longer term outpatient services and intensive residential treatment. We also provide a variety of specialized services that focus on a

• particular group such as infants, parents, youth and adolescents
• presenting issue such as family struggles, parenting, autism or addictions
• service area such as child welfare, schools, youth justice or day cares

Our Centre specializes in a variety of children’s mental health issues that children, parents and families experience. Some examples include,

• Parenting children with mental health issues and behavioural difficulties
• Family functioning and relationship struggles
• Children who experience trauma such as
  • Death of a significant person, grief and loss
  • Physical, sexual and emotional abuse including family violence
  • A victim of a serious accident, crime or other emotional trauma
• Children and youth who experience psychological difficulties such as
  • Issues with mood (anxiety and depression);
  • Behavioural difficulties such as attention problems and self regulation struggles;
  • other psychiatric or psychological issues such as obsessive-compulsive thoughts, suicidal thinking, self harm;
  • school struggles including school avoidance, peer problems, bullying
  • relationship and interpersonal difficulties
• Understanding children’s developmental issues – focus on 0 through 6