Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists

Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists

Our Services

  • Assessments of children, adolescents, families
  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for children, adolescents, families
  • Collaboration with family, schools and other professionals
  • Workshops and Extension Programs: Current and emerging clinical and theoretical perspectives for professionals
  • Consultation for children’s mental health community agencies

Some of the most common concerns parents and teachers have are difficulties manifested as:

  • Excessive anxieties such as separation anxiety, some phobias, chronic worrying
  • Behavioural difficulties (aggression, defiance, delinquent behaviour)
  • Eating disorders
  • Learning difficulties
  • Somatic complaints (headaches or stomach aches not caused by illness)
  • Irritability and/or sadness with diminished interest or pleasure in daily life
  • Inhibitions that interfere with socialization and/or learning
  • Unhappiness with gender and gender role
  • Highly conflictual relationships with parents/siblings
  • Fears of growing older and resistance to taking on the demands of the next developmental phase, including clinging to earlier patterns of behaviour in a regressive manner
  • Poor socialization with peer group
  • Unwillingness to accept criticism and/or excessive oversensitivity to injuries to self-esteem with reactions such as defeatism or resistance to learning.
  • Attachment difficulties
  • Adoption issues
  • Grief, Loss, Mourning
  • Trauma including physical, sexual& internet abuse
  • Working with immigrants and newcomers
  • Working with victims of of sex trafficking