Women’s Place

Understanding and Coping with Trauma Stress

This is an informational group for women who have experienced childhood trauma, sexual assault, or relationship abuse.

 

Anger, Boundaries and Communication (ABC)

Level I
Learn the importance of setting boundaries and expressing your anger in a respectful, assertive manner. This will be done through mini-talks, self-scored quizzes and rehearsing new skills.

 

Assertiveness Training for Women

Level II
Explore deeply held beliefs and other barriers that make assertive behaviour difficult to maintain.
Build on skills learned in Anger, Boundaries, and Communication. Learn new tools to deal with criticism and conflict.

 

Self-Esteem Group

Learn how to let go of impossible perfectionism, how you can practice self-care, how to assert your needs and maintain healthy relationships.

 

Moving Forward: Beyond Survival

You will have an opportunity to work through the impact of childhood sexual abuse. This is a therapy group and a screening session with the group’s facilitators is required to ensure that we can provide a good fit for all participants.

 

Emotional Eating

This group will focus on underlying emotional triggers. It will also examine new ways to help you create healthier eating patterns.

 

A Fresh Start: Polishing Your Coping Skills

Women who have experienced trauma often struggle with unhealthy coping skills. In this group, the focus is on developing healthier ways to deal with stress and maintain a balanced lifestyle.

 

Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies

This is an eight week psycho-educational group designed to help women in recovery from an eating disorder. This group will focus on learning alternative coping strategies for stress and anxiety, self-esteem and self-acceptance in a safe and supportive environment.

 

Reading for Resiliency

This is a book club designed to help women explore their own inner strengths and resiliency. Participants will read short stories, articles and poems and then be able to bring their observations, questions and learnings to discuss at the weekly meetings.

 

When Love Hurts (This program will be presented in Punjabi)

A ten-week psycho-educational group designed to help women that have experienced relationship violence. Based on the book, “When Love Hurts: A Woman’s Guide to Understanding Abuse in Relationships,” written by Jill Cory and Karen McAndless-Davis. This group will focus on helping you feel less alone as well as learn from your own experiences and others.