Hello, I'm MONIQUE.
I am a registered Child and Youth Worker with the Ontario Association of Child and Youth Care (OACYC). I support caregivers and parents as they actualize the skills, insights, and relationships that allow them to lead more peaceful and empowered lives with their children. Parenting can be life’s most challenging experience but also one of the most rewarding experiences. Parents play a critical role in shaping their children’s lives and futures and my role is to guide and help parents and children grow together.
I’ve been supporting children, youth, and their families since 1989. I’ve worked intensively in the school systems, social services, and the mental health sectors. I provide coaching and support for parents and caregivers by addressing challenging behaviors, teaching encouraging nurturing, and repairing family relationships. Parents are supported in accessing perspectives and skills that empower them to connect deeply with their children and navigate challenging moments.
During our sessions, you will learn to be more effective in your parenting style. You will boost your child self-esteem, catch your child being good, set limits and be consistent with your discipline, make time for your kids, avoid power struggles, provide strong role modeling, and make communication a priority, demonstrate flexibility, and adjust your parenting style to meet your child’s needs. In our sessions, you will also learn: structure, routine, predictability, and follow-through, promoting positive behavior, effective direction, active listening, validating and emotion coaching, emotional regulation, calming methods, de-escalation techniques, implementing consequences, and attachment, and connection strategies based on the Circle of Security Model of Secure parenting.
Now offering "Circle of Security" individual sessions.
- THE PARENT will learn new ways of parenting/attachment/connection.
- THE PARENT will be EMPOWERED to be more present in meeting their child’s needs.
- THE PARENT will be more aware of struggles in attuning to their children’s needs.
- THE PARENT will build a solid emotional foundation for their child.
- THE PARENT will become the Bigger, stronger, wiser, and kinder parent.
- THE PARENT will see previous patterns of behavior and learn new ways of dealing with the behaviors.
- THE PARENT will increase their empathy for the child’s attachment needs.
- THE CHILDREN will appreciate the sense of safety that comes from knowing their parents are in charge.
- THE PARENTS will learn to BE WITH their child to help them organize their feelings and develop healthy lifelong emotional relationships with others.
- THE PARENT will learn to follow their child’s needs but whenever necessary they will take charge.
- THE PARENT will learn structure, routine, consistency, and predictability.
- THE PARENT will learn listening skills and how to be effective in their direction.
- THE PARENT will learn emotional coaching, and how to validate, label, and organize their child’s emotional needs.
- THE PARENT will learn to set boundaries and limits.
- THE PARENT will receive a roadmap to see and understand their child needs.
- THE PARENT will learn the path to secure attachment.
- THE PARENT will learn that their SHARK MUSIC may trigger feelings in themselves which will stop them from responding to their child’s needs.
- THE PARENT will learn that their child’s cues show a need and a miscue hides their needs.
- THE PARENT will learn to recognize rupture and repair.
- THE PARENT will learn a new way to BE WITH THEIR CHILD.
Reach our for further information
Jtaun@therapysecure.com
