Group Therapy in Kitchener-Waterloo
MIDTOWN OFFERS TWO GREAT GROUP THERAPY PROGRAMS YEAR-ROUND
LIFE AFTER MY ACCIDENT
If you experienced complex injuries related to a motor vehicle accident (MVA), it helps to know you’re not alone, to help your system slow down, and to offer yourself a safe space to practice recovery skills.
That’s what this group is about. People with lived experience gather in a safe space, sharing about their journey and practicing recovery together.
Why should I join?
To explore safe ways to connect with myself and others around shared recovery experiences and strategies.
This facilitated support group helps accident survivors, like yourself, better understand their bodies and minds. It offers gentle restorative activities and a safe place to try them. Moreover, you get to meet others who are also on a complex recovery journey.
The program last three months and includes three 1.5 hour meetings. Your level of participation is your choice (you’re welcome to opt in and out of activities as you need).
What will we be doing?
Each session offers sharing time, recovery skills practice, short body calming activities, and friendly conversation.
This group treats you as a whole person. It is designed to help survivors, like yourself, manage as best as possible at home, work or school, and in the community.
The group’s facilitators offer rehabilitation education and skills coaching. You and your peers are invited to talk about these and other recovery strategies, ask questions, and receive guidance.
Conversations are sensitive to participants’ trauma. We’re mindful about triggers and avoid direct conversations about accidents and other traumatic incidents.
When and where do we meet?
This group meets monthly on Tuesdays between 2-3:30pm, in-person at the Midtown clinic.
Pre-registration is required. You’ll meet with a facilitator beforehand to talk through the program and help you decide if this is for you.
Upcoming dates: Fall 2026 - Sep 22, Oct 20, Nov 17 Winter 2027 - Feb 23, Mar 23, Apr 20
Group topics:
- Coping with Pain
- Connections & Community
- Values and Identity
- other themes relevant to group members
Facilitated by Shelly Pavlic, Social Worker and Psychotherapist (RSW)
Shelly firmly believes that trauma survivors need caring, comprehensive support during recovery, and that everyone deserves to feel understood.
Email or call for information.
Circle of Security © Parenting Group
At times all parents feel lost about what their child might need from them. Imagine what it would feel like to make sense of what your child was really asking of you.
The Circle of Security© Parenting program is based on decades of research about how best to nurture secure parent-child relationships.
The COSP© model helps parents and caregivers:
• Understand their child’s emotional world by learning to read emotional needs
• Support their child’s ability to successfully manage emotions
• Enhance their child’s self esteem
• Honour their innate wisdom and desire for their child to be secure
Join the group specific to your child’s age: 0-3, 4-8, 9-13, and 14-17
Groups run in 8-week blocks throughout the year
Sessions occur weekdays in Kitchener (in-person and hybrid)
Contact the clinic for dates Two locations for your convenience: The Family Center, 65 Hanson Avenue, and 90 Blucher Street, Kitchener Registration is always open!
Private sessions are available on request, in-clinic or at your home.
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What is Circle of Security© Parenting?
This group is facilitated by Sandra Tocitu. Sandra obtained her Circle of Security Parenting© certification through Circle of Security International in 2019, and since then has supported many caregivers, foster parents, and aunts and uncles individually and in a group settings. She is passionate about practicing from an attachment lens, and strongly believes that positive connection is one of the upmost important factors in fostering children’s safety and security. For more about Sandra, click here
Email or call to learn more about this group or to register
Let us help you care for your child.