Our Philosophy
We want you to feel healthy, empowered, successful, and most of all, growth. We want you to acquire new skills, strategies, knowledge, and to help you discover that you have the tools to unleash your unique gifts, strengths and talents. We want to help you realize that you have what it takes to cope with life's many unexpected challenges.
Traditional Psychotherapy
Resilience and empowerment does not always proceed in an easy and untethered manner without some professional support. Everyone goes through setbacks, stages of conflicts (internally and externally), and may require concrete advice and solutions in order to cope with life’s transitions. For example, individual’s develop, grow and change, family’s change (a learning disability diagnosis, a separation or divorce), trauma, loss, mental health challenges, career stressers, academic expectations, substance abuse, and physical and emotional concerns can alter the life cycle. By actively listening and understanding an individual’s experience and how they cope, is fundamental to beginning the process of healing and connecting to inner strengths and resiliency to work through life’s unscripted challenges.
Our main focus is working with individuals, couples and families, children and youths.
- Family conflict
- Addictions
- Couple enrichment and relationship attachment
- Abuse in childhood
- Adult children of divorce
- Parenting problems
- Issues of intimacy
- Lack of self esteem
- Stress management
- Improving mind-body connection
- Emotional abuse
- Depression and anxiety
- Trauma and PTSD
- ADHD
Reunification Therapy
A therapeutic intervention that works to reunite a parent with their estranged child. The dissolution of a marriage or intimate relationship can be a very difficult time for both partners, and children may be used by one parent to pressure, hurt, punish, or alienate the other parent. In such cases, children may become triangulated and polarized in their relationships with their parents and will sometimes refuse to have a relationship with one parent.
While one partner may disapprove of, or distrust their ex-partner, their dislike is not a justification to end or significantly limit a child’s relationship with the other parent. Unless a parent is truly a danger to their own children, parental alienation is not necessarily in the best interest of the children or the family system. With some exceptions, a parent has the right to continue a parental role throughout their child’s life. Reunification counselling is a valid and useful way to re-establish a relationship between an estranged parent and their children. Within this framework, the goal is to work through the obstacles in the family. A system so that children can derive the benefits of healthy involvement of both parents.
The goal of this group is:
- To openly communicate within the family unit without fear or retribution or isolation
- To identify areas within the family system that require change. Pinpoint specific challenges and the approaches the family use to handle these challenges
- Identify the strengths and areas of weaknesses that create discord within the family
- Learn new ways to interact and overcome unhealthy patterns associated with conscious and/or unconscious dyads and/or triads
- To learn how to establish safety even when triggered or when in disagreement with another family member
- To set healthy boundaries
- Set individual and family goals and working together on ways to achieve these goals
- Respect for each family member’s experience of a problems/concerns
e-Counselling Services
e-Counselling is also referred to as online counselling, Cybercounselling, online therapy or psychological and social services using technological advances, such as, videoconferencing, Skype, blogs, and various other secure login/subscription base portal to deliver the same method of traditional therapy and coaching through the internet.
We maintain the same professional ethics and standards of practice online as we would do if we were meeting you in an office. You can expect the same level of care that you would expect with a highly qualified and experienced in-person counsellor. KMT continues to use technology throughout its programs and services to meet the needs of our clients. By focusing our expertise, we are arguably a unique blend of counsellors and coaches that uses technology as a benefit as our social structure continues to change, and the use of secure/password protected meetings and discussions allows us to offer services with excellent quality and effective results.
Studies show that this form of therapy can be just as beneficial to clients, as classic, in office, face-to-face, and now done electronically, online, face-to-face using technological advancements that are expanding and meeting the need of individuals that cannot get to therapy due to limitations that in-office therapy sometimes overlooks.
For example, household responsibilities (primary care giver), physical and emotional limitations, need to feel safe in one’s own environment, trauma, location, anxious or embarrassed about having to go or needing therapy, time to get to and from therapy, travels extensively for work, or conventional business hours. This method is NOT e-mail conversations with your counsellor or coach but a face-to-face online session through a secure/password protected conferencing medium.
After you have securely registered and described your concerns online, your counsellor will contact you and request your ticket number. Once verified you would be provided a username and password to login and an invitation request will be sent to confirm and commence services.
Registration and payment is fast and easy. But do take the time to describe your concerns so that your counsellor will know how to help you. You will receive a personal welcome from your counsellor within 24 business hours and a full therapeutic reply within 72 hours. You will need to login to our e-counselling system through the invitation to receive your counsellor’s messages to set up the time for your initial online face-to-face meeting.
E-sessions last as long as traditional sessions discussing your concerns, setting goals, and working through solutions. This is a counselling session. Similarly, your e-counselor will spend at least 50 minutes writing you an in depth and personal therapeutic reply that will be shared online through your invitation (username and password) which is shared online once you login.
Psychological and Social practitioners, regardless if they see clients in person or work with clients through electronic technologies (i.e Telephone or Blog) must adhere to ethical guidelines and principles. This means that therapists at KMT Learning maintain professional, ethical standards for all clients.
It is important that clients experience KMT’s e-counselling as competent practitioners, who conduct themselves with the utmost integrity. This means that we do not discriminate against clients on the grounds of cultural, racial, religious, and/or sexual orientations. We do not conduct therapy with individuals that we feel need a more intensive level of treatment than we can provide nor do we continue to work with individuals who we feel are not benefiting from our treatment approach. In such cases, we make recommendations for other possible treatment options that they can pursue.
Your consent for any service we provide will be sought prior to the service commencing and as it progresses.
The need for confidentiality in the therapeutic relationship is crucial for therapy to be successful. Thus, at no time will any of your therapy be discussed or documentation forwarded to others outside of KMT without your consent.
All physical documentation is maintained in a locked cabinet and all electronic documentation is kept on a desktop computer that only KMT’s therapists can access with secure password protections. These records are generally maintained for a minimum of seven years since your last contact with your therapist and then disposed of in a secure manner.
It is important that you are aware that the therapist must disclose client information where there is a legal obligation to do so. Also, if the therapist feels that you may be a threat to yourself or others, s/he is ethically required to report this to the authorities only as a means to avert harm. This includes suspicion of child abuse.
While we feel very strongly that e-Counselling and Tele-Counselling can be beneficial for many individuals, it runs a heightened risk of confidentiality being breached. It is important to remember that E-Counseling and Phone Counselling are limited by the security of the technology. Especially with e-Counselling, limitations include system breakdown, authorised (e.g., internet service provider system administrator) and unauthorised persons potentially viewing messages, and the potential access of deleted messages where back-up records have been made.
Importantly, if you decide to have e-Counselling or Telecounselling, it is your responsibility to make sure you have the necessary privacy you need. This means if you are at home, at work, or in a public place, you need to be aware of who may be present and thus invade your privacy during your counselling session.
After you have securely registered and described your concerns online, your counsellor will contact you and request your ticket number. Once verified you would be provided a username and password to login and an invitation request will be sent to confirm and commence services.
Registration and payment is fast and easy. But do take the time to describe your concerns so that your counsellor will know how to help you. You will receive a personal welcome from your counsellor within 24 business hours and a full therapeutic reply within 72 hours. You will need to login to our e-counselling system through the invitation to receive your counsellor’s messages to set up the time for your initial online face-to-face meeting.
E-sessions last as long as traditional sessions discussing your concerns, setting goals, and working through solutions. This is a counselling session. Similarly, your e-counselor will spend at least 50 minutes writing you an in depth and personal therapeutic reply that will be shared online through your invitation (username and password) which is shared online once you login.
Psychological and Social practitioners, regardless if they see clients in person or work with clients through electronic technologies (i.e Telephone or Blog) must adhere to ethical guidelines and principles. This means that therapists at KMT Learning maintain professional, ethical standards for all clients.
It is important that clients experience KMT’s e-counselling as competent practitioners, who conduct themselves with the utmost integrity. This means that we do not discriminate against clients on the grounds of cultural, racial, religious, and/or sexual orientations. We do not conduct therapy with individuals that we feel need a more intensive level of treatment than we can provide nor do we continue to work with individuals who we feel are not benefiting from our treatment approach. In such cases, we make recommendations for other possible treatment options that they can pursue.
Your consent for any service we provide will be sought prior to the service commencing and as it progresses.
The need for confidentiality in the therapeutic relationship is crucial for therapy to be successful. Thus, at no time will any of your therapy be discussed or documentation forwarded to others outside of KMT without your consent.
All physical documentation is maintained in a locked cabinet and all electronic documentation is kept on a desktop computer that only KMT’s therapists can access with secure password protections. These records are generally maintained for a minimum of seven years since your last contact with your therapist and then disposed of in a secure manner.
It is important that you are aware that the therapist must disclose client information where there is a legal obligation to do so. Also, if the therapist feels that you may be a threat to yourself or others, s/he is ethically required to report this to the authorities only as a means to avert harm. This includes suspicion of child abuse.
The need for confidentiality in the therapeutic relationship is crucial for therapy to be successful. Thus, at no time will any of your therapy be discussed or documentation forwarded to others outside of KMT without your consent.
All physical documentation is maintained in a locked cabinet and all electronic documentation is kept on a desktop computer that only KMT’s therapists can access with secure password protections. These records are generally maintained for a minimum of seven years since your last contact with your therapist and then disposed of in a secure manner.
It is important that you are aware that the therapist must disclose client information where there is a legal obligation to do so. Also, if the therapist feels that you may be a threat to yourself or others, s/he is ethically required to report this to the authorities only as a means to avert harm. This includes suspicion of child abuse.
Group Therapy
Anxiety Disorder — Group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
We all feel nervous or worried at times. This anxiety can be a helpful feeling when it motivates us or warns us of danger. An anxiety disorder, on the other hand, causes unexpected or unhelpful anxiety that seriously impacts our lives, including how we think, feel, and act. Anxiety disorders can affect anyone at any age, and they are them most common mental health problem. Sometimes, anxiety disorders are triggered by a specific event or stressful life experience. Anxiety disroders may be more likely to occur when we have certain ways of looking at things (like believing that everything must be perfect) or learn unhelpful coping strategies from others. But sometimes there just doesn't seem to be a reason.
Many people who experience an anxiety disorder think that they should just be able "get over it" on their own. Others may need time to recognize how deeply anxiety affects their life. However, anxiety disorders are real illnesses that affect a person's well-being. It's important to talk to a doctor about mental health concerns. Some physical health conditions cause symptoms of anxiety. A doctor will look at all possible causes of anxiety.
Depression — Group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
CBT is a collection of skills and techniques designed to help people deal with life problems more effectively. Through practice, people form new mental habits that drastically reduce symptoms, promote well being, and prevent relapse. The central principle and behaviour of CBT is that our thoughts, feelings physiology and behaviour all inter-relate and affect one another. Changes in thoughts and behaviour can impact our moods and physical functioning. When people are in distress (be it from depression, anxiety, body image concerns, substance abuse, etc), it is often because of a downward spiral effect between these variables.
CBT aims to reverse that spiral to an upward momentum toward health. CBT, regardless of the specific target of change (thoughts, behaviour, or interpersonal contacts) has been used successfully to treat Depression and improve cognition, behaviour and mood of the individual struggling with depression.
The goal of this group is:
- A convincing rationale for the intervention
- Training in practical skills to change mood-related thoughts or behaviours
- Encouraging practice of the skills outside of the therapy sessions
- Attribution of improvement to the use of the skills outside of the therapist contact
Men's Support Group
The men's support group addresses topics such as relationship issues, trauma, family origin issues, parenthood, anger management, sexuality, sex addiction, domestic abuse, drug abuse, alcohol abuse.
Women's Support Group
This is a group for women designed to tackle issues relation to divorce, separation and infidelity, lack of intimacy, low self-esteem or feelings of loneliness. Participants are provided with helpful skills in communication, boundaries, assertion and healthy self-imaging. The understanding of a healthy, loving relationship begins with identifying common challenges encountered in a relationship. Change starts with the self and expands outward shifting us out of stagnation, helplessness/frustration. The relationship you are most response-able for is the one nurtured with the self.
Teen Social Anxiety Group
The teenage years are challenging for teens and their parents. Teens face many new pressures and may not always react in the healthiest ways to the problems they encounter. In some cases, teens may need counselling to help them cope with their problems. Some of the struggles teens face are a normal part of growing up, like dealing with peer groups, experimenting with new ideas, and going through changes in mood, identity, and interests. Support groups help teens through some of these issues by providing a safe and non-judgemental setting to express themselves, and creating an environment that is structured and supportive.