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Family Mediation

Family and child focused mediation services to support families impacted by separation and divorce. This is a voluntary and confidential process to help families avoid or limit expensive and slow-moving family law proceedings. Mediation offers an affordable and efficient alternative to dispute resolution at any stage of separation or divorce. Elissa helps parents to create practical and durable parenting plans through focused and guided conversations rooted in the best interest of the child. Elissa’s unique approach to Family Mediation looks to uncover the root cause of any issue or dispute such that any proposed solutions are meaningful, practical and long-lasting.

    • Parenting plans

    • Scheduling including holidays, summer, birthdays, etc.

    • Decision-making responsibility (custody)

    • Communication guidelines

    • Issues regarding relocation

    • Introduction of new partners

    • Visitation rights

    • Child support and spousal support

    • Section 7 expenses (additional costs for children, such as childcare and extra curricular activities)

    • Property/Asset division and equalization

    • Impartial referrals to lawyers and divorce coaches

Parent Coaching

Through individual sessions, Elissa will provide tailored strategies for navigating behavioural challenges, strengthening the parent child relationship, improving self esteem and confidence at any stage from toddlers to teens. Parent coaching aims to support parents facing daily challenges, to enhance parenting skills, and to provide guidance for specific concerns. Elissa takes pride in providing highly personalized advice and accessible and practical tools to improve your family dynamics in ways that are truly transformative.

    • Managing tantrums and meltdowns

    • Sleep and bedtime issues

    • Setting boundaries and effective consequences

    • Screen time battles and media addiction

    • Picky eating and mealtime struggles

    • School refusal

    • Understanding ADHD and Autistic minds

    • Parent stress and burnout

    • Sibling rivalry

    • Building and fostering emotion regulation skills

    • Nervous system regulation

    • Issues arriving from separation and divorce

    • Step-parenting and co-parenting

Executive Function/ADHD Coaching

Executive function coaching is a service for tweens, teens, young adult and adults that helps to build, strengthen and improve cognitive skills such as organization, planning, time management, task initiation and emotional regulation through personalized goal oriented sessions. Elissa specializes in supporting individuals with neurodivergent needs (such as ADHD/ASD) to improve independence, productivity and important relationships with family and friends.

    • Organization and planning

    • Time management

    • Motivation and focus

    • Impulse control

    • Task initiation

    • Self-regulation skills

    • Emotion regulation

    • Academic and study skills

    • Procrastination

    • Perfectionism

    • Accountability and goal-setting

Educational Consulting

Educational consulting services for families and schools. For families, this includes supporting parents and guardians of children with unique needs to navigate the education system, advocating for enhanced resources in the classroom and improving lines of communication between families and teachers/school administration.

For schools and educators, Elissa offers support for teachers and administration navigating classroom management and specific behaviour challenges as well as professional development.

    • IEP creation and management

    • Navigate school admissions

    • Explore school and program choices

    • Advocating for needs-based support in the classroom

    • Communication with teachers and school administration

    • School stress and anxiety management for students

    • Homework and study skills

    • Special education resources

    • Behaviour strategies for students

    • Classroom management techniques

    • Accommodating students with diverse needs

    • Mentoring and individualized support for new teachers

    • Curriculum development and student assessment design

    • Professional development workshops for Teachers and School Administration

    • Child Behaviour Management Tools,

    • Media Literacy and Managing Screen Time,

    • Whole Brain Teaching; A Neuroscience-Based Approach to Addressing Child Behaviour In and Out of the Classroom

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Elissa is committed to providing accessible and affordable services to as many families as possible. Sliding scale pricing is offered for those where cost is a barrier to getting support.

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