TAKING THE HELM with Lynn McLaughlin

Ep 129: Kelsey Timiuk and Julie Recker | Child and Youth Practitioners in Private Practice - Why Not?


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Julia Recker and Kelsey Timiuk are Child and Youth Care Workers who are offering counselling services through private practice. The centre they work in is one of few currently available in Ontario.

Kelsey has specific trauma training and trauma care from Arizona Trauma Institute. She runs a private practice called Soulful Connections out of Pure Mentality, a Mental Wellness Service Centre located in Windsor, Ontario. Through counselling, she believes that focusing on individuals' strengths and providing a safe non-judgemental environment for her clients is essential. Skills such as self-regulation, mindfulness, and connecting the mind body and soul all through a trauma-informed lens, are critical assets in addressing and exploring every individual's mental health.
Julia Recker is the owner of Helping Hand Counselling, She specialize in individuals up to the age of 28, helping those who cross her path through goal setting, behaviour management, and motivational training. Through Helping Hand Counselling her goal is to encourage everyone she meets to be their most authentic self and grow through the challenges they may be facing in a safe, non-judgmental environment.
Julia and Kelsey discuss how they work with their clients, the 3 year college program and how they are helping close the gap for affordable and accessible counselling.
šŸ’„ What is the role for Child and Youth Care Workers in supporting children, youth and adult mental health needs?
šŸ’„ Why do so few students graduating with this qualification consider private practice as an option?
šŸ’„ What is Rosie's Mission and how does using vocabulary, talk therapy and books help people cope?
šŸ’„ Kelsey and Julia also share how self-regulation as an adult is important to children's well-being as well as resources that are available.

Connect with them: https://mypurementality.ca/



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