Services
Thrive Kids provides comprehensive support for children and families seeking guidance, understanding, and practical strategies to help their child thrive. Services are designed to support the whole child and family system, offering parent consultation, counselling, play therapy, and educational insight that are tailored to each child’s unique needs.
The goal is to create a supportive environment where children feel safe to learn, grow, and express themselves. Through collaborative work with families, Thrive Kids focuses on strengthening emotional wellbeing, building resilience, and helping children develop the skills they need to navigate everyday challenges.
Each child is approached as an individual, with careful attention to their strengths, temperament, and developmental stage. Families are supported with thoughtful guidance and strategies that nurture healthy relationships, confidence, and emotional growth.
At Thrive Kids, the focus is on creating a foundation where children feel understood, supported, and empowered to reach their full potential.
Clinical Counselling
Helping children and youth work through challenges while building resilience and emotional strength. Counselling provides guidance and support that helps them better understand their thoughts and feelings, express themselves in healthy ways, and develop positive coping strategies. Through a safe and supportive therapeutic relationship, children can explore difficult experiences, build confidence in themselves, and learn skills that support emotional regulation, problem solving, and healthy relationships. The goal is to help them navigate challenges with greater self awareness while strengthening the tools they need to grow, adapt, and thrive.
Play-Based Therapy
Creative, child-led play takes place in a supportive and nurturing environment where children are free to express themselves in ways that feel natural and safe. Through play, children can communicate thoughts and feelings that may be difficult to put into words while developing emotional regulation, social skills, and confidence. This approach is tailored to each child’s unique strengths, temperament, and challenges, allowing therapy to meet them at their developmental level. Play becomes a meaningful way for children to process experiences, build problem-solving skills, and strengthen their sense of self, while the therapeutic relationship provides the safety and guidance needed for exploration, healing, and authentic growth.
Pre-Diagnostic Support
Supporting families who are considering whether a formal assessment may be helpful for their child. This process can include clinical observation of the child, conversations with parents about developmental history, and exploring patterns in emotional regulation, behaviour, learning, and social interaction across different environments. These observations can help families gain a clearer understanding of their child’s strengths and areas of difficulty, and whether pursuing a formal diagnosis may provide additional support or clarity. When helpful, guidance is also provided around next steps, including preparing for assessments, understanding feedback from schools or specialists, and connecting with appropriate professionals. This work is grounded in a neuroaffirming perspective that respects each child’s unique way of thinking, learning, and experiencing the world while helping families make informed decisions about support and evaluation.
Synergetic Play Therapy
A child centred therapeutic approach that uses play as a natural way for children to express emotions, process experiences, and develop emotional regulation. Play is the primary language of children, and through creative, child led play they are able to communicate feelings and experiences that may be difficult to express with words. Through attuned connection and a safe therapeutic relationship, children learn to understand their internal world, regulate their nervous system, and build resilience in the face of challenges. This approach supports the development of self awareness, confidence, and emotional flexibility while allowing children to explore experiences at their own pace. Sessions are developmentally informed and tailored to each child’s unique temperament, strengths, and needs, helping them build the internal resources necessary for healthy emotional growth.
Sibling Dynamic Therapy
Focused support designed to help siblings develop healthier ways of interacting, communicating, and resolving conflict. Sibling relationships can be one of the longest and most influential relationships in a child’s life, yet they can also be a source of tension and misunderstanding. Sessions help children learn to understand one another’s perspectives, express feelings in constructive ways, and develop skills for cooperation, emotional regulation, and respectful communication. Through guided activities and therapeutic conversation, siblings practice problem solving, empathy, and conflict resolution. The goal is to strengthen sibling relationships, reduce ongoing conflict, and foster more positive and supportive dynamics within the family.
EMDR Therapy for Children
Trauma-informed EMDR therapy for children is a gentle, evidence-based approach that helps young minds process and heal from difficult experiences. By using age-appropriate techniques, this therapy supports emotional regulation, builds resilience, and fosters a sense of safety and empowerment.
Parent Support
Parents receive individualized support that respects their neurodiversity and family context, with a focus on enhancing communication, emotional regulation, and parent-child connection as well as focus on their own well-being.
School Liaison
Attend school-based meetings to advocate for your child’s needs. This helps ensure consistent, collaborative care between home and school, promoting a supportive environment for your child’s growth. We help create strategies that align with your child’s strengths and support their well-being across settings.
Parent -Child Interaction Therapy
A collaborative approach that focuses on strengthening the relationship between parents and children while supporting positive behaviour, emotional connection, and mutual understanding. Parents are guided in learning practical and developmentally appropriate strategies that improve communication, increase cooperation, and create more secure and supportive interactions with their child. This work helps parents better understand the emotional needs behind behaviour while building skills that support regulation, connection, and consistency at home. By strengthening the parent child relationship, families often experience less conflict, greater confidence in parenting, and a stronger sense of safety and connection within the family system.
Specializing in:
ADHD Play & Regulation Therapy
Adoption & Foster Care
Anxiety & Stress-Relief Through Play
Attachment-Focused Play Therapy
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Big Emotions & Anger Play Therapy
Bullying Resilience & Confidence Building
Executive Function & Emotional Regulation Coaching
Giftedness
Grief, Loss & Life Transitions in Play Therapy
LGBTQ+ Affirmative Play Therapy
Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) Support
Selective Mutism & Nonverbal Expression
Self-Advocacy & Empowerment Play
Sensory Processing & Interoception Awareness
Speaking Opportunities
Promoting positive mental health and social and emotional development in children.
- Parent Groups
- PAC presentations
- Professional Development sessions
- Corporate Engagements
Reach out for a free consultation and customize a program that fits your needs.
