Mama Hala
Professional Services
Special therapies
Parent Counseling
Parent counseling is a service that aims to provide you with knowledge, guidance, tools, and emotional support, all without judgment or bias. Parent counseling focuses on how you as the parent affect the dynamics of your family.
Family Counseling
Family Counseling helps family members better understand each other, support one another and work through difficult situations. It aims to address behavioral and emotional issues that cause family problems. And can help family members improve communication and resolve conflicts.
Parenting after separation & divorce
Living apart can have a serious effect on you and your children. Parenting After Separation sessions can help parents plan and make positive choices during separation or divorce
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Sessions for children experiencing loss or divorce.
While all children will experience feelings of grief in the event of losing a loved one; most will adjust without experiencing long term difficulties. However, some children can develop emotional issues that persist over time. Children experiencing loss or divorce can have difficulties processing emotions and coming to terms with a “new normal” that requires adjustment to uncertainty and instability
Teens Social Anxiety Therapy
In Social Anxiety Therapy Sessions Teens learn Coping Methods, build Self-Esteem & Gain Self-Confidence. It also helps them understand the connection between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Mama Hala offers a Safe Environment and an Empathic Ear to help Change Behavior. Acceptance & Safety.
Anger Management Coaching Sessions
An anger management sessions essentially teaches you how to manage your feelings and emotions, particularly anger, stress and rage in an effective and healthy way. It’s helps:
- Improve self control
- Build self-esteem and confidence
- Create healthier and happier relationships
- Greater inner peace
- Reduce stress and improve stress management
- Increase personal and professional productivity
- Better physical and mental well-being
- Develop empathy
- Increase personal responsibility
- Become assertive
- Improve judgment and impulse control
- Build better relationship
- Establish healthy boundaries
Couples Counseling
Couples Counseling Sessions helps clarify and define feelings about your relationship. It resolves marriage and dating issues before they become major problems. It creates more intimacy and deeper connections between couples. And can promote individual growth and awareness.
Marriage Preparation Sessions
Premarital counseling helps partners improve their ability to communicate, set realistic expectations for marriage and develop conflict-resolution skills.
Self-Development Coaching Sessions
- Increase confidence and pride in self values.
- Unlock your true potential and overcome fear and anxiety.
- Helps find a different perspective and purpose in life.
- Increase clarity towards life goals.
- Increase productivity.
Walk and talk with Mama Hala
Experience 1 hour “walk the stress out & talk” in an indoors weather-controlled Recreation Center walking track during cold months or enjoy the beauty of the outdoor trails and stunning nature of our beautiful capital city of Ottawa in the warmer months.
Horticultural / Plant Therapy Session
Gardening and indoors planting is linked to mental clarity by reducing stress, anxiety, and mood disorders or depression. Plants help in shifting the focus away from the difficulties. For this reason, doctors recommend gardening to people including those who have had a loss in their lives. Learn to propagate, plant & distress while talking with Mama Hala!
Talk Therapy Session
Talk therapy encourages open and honest dialogue about issues that cause you distress. Through your relationship with Mama Hala, you’ll work to identify and understand how these stressors are impacting your life, plus develop strategies to manage the symptoms.
Talk Therapy Sessions
- Help improve communication skills
- Help you feel empowered
- Empower you to develop fresh insights about your life
- Learn how to make healthier choices
- Develop coping strategies to manage distress
Parenting Couching Sessions
Mama Hala provides knowledge and tools as an educator, supporting parents to learn communication skills, and how to handle their own emotions, needs, and feelings in a way that ignites deeper connection with their children. In addition to other strategies to manage their children’s behaviors. Between sessions, parents use and practice what they have learned and return to the next session to discuss progress, adjust strategies as needed, and learn new skills.
For example:
- Establishing house rules, structure, and consistent routines
- Learning to provide specific praise and attention for appropriate behaviors (praising good behavior often) and not providing attention for mild, annoying but not harmful behaviors (choosing your battles)
- Using developmentally appropriate directions and commands
- Using consistent and effective disciplinary strategies
