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Our counsellors are aware of First Nations culture including history, beliefs and traditions, stories and legends. Family TLC provides an understanding place that honors Aboriginal knowledge, experience and healing as legitimate ways of defining and addressing emotional health and mental wellness. We offer counselling that acknowledges the diversity and “caught between 2 worlds”. We recognize that not all of us were brought up on a reserve and may have been raised non-aboriginal.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Many of us have lived the trauma of abuse and some of us are still stuck in the cycle of it. We can feel trapped, ashamed or stuck wanting to break free, but just not knowing at all or even worse, feeling that there is no help. This occurs when on of us experiences a trauma where our life or someone else’s life is genuinely threatened.Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome affects one ability to function. We find relationships hard, experience flashbacks that are devastating or overwhelming. Anxiety can overpower and trust feels impossible.

We know from experience it is possible to break out of the abuse cycle. Family TLC can walk with you as you learn how to make it happen. In addition, there are many things you can do to help improve your quality of life when suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

Childhood Trauma

Many of us grew up in difficult environments such as:  poverty, domestic violence, loss of culture, racism, death, addictions and mental illness.

These environments may empower us to build resilience and figure out how to thrive.  However, these experiences may cause us to feel deep seeded shame, fear, and sorrow

Some of us find we repeat the cycle, even though we have a strong desire to live our life differently from how we were raised. It is not uncommon to feel lost, alone, depressed, anxious or an overwhelming need to escape.

If you suffer from any of these feelings there is no reason to have to deal with this on your own. Family TLC have specialists that will help you overcome your feelings.

Call 705-737-3513.

At Family TLC we understand how your childhood impacts you today. We are able to sit with you with full acceptance and respect.   We can assist to you in your healing journey.

Identity

Considering the history of our people with genocide, the reservation system, residential school, and much more, many of us struggle with our identity.

Whether we are of mixed ancestry or not, we can feel caught between culture and race. It is not uncommon to question who we are, or to be interested in our culture but feel uncomfortable.

Struggling with ones identity can be confusing, lonely and brings on an overwhelming sense of not belonging.

Sometimes it helps just to be heard or to be in a safe environment begun to explore your ancestry and your options or even start to build the bridge to things that are important to your identity.

Family TLC has helped hundreds of people reclaim their identity. For your free consultation call 705-737-3513 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Residential School

Many generations of Inuit, Métis and First Nation children spent the greater part of their childhood in residential schools. Numerous survivors of residential school abuse find themselves struggling alone with the pain, grief and rage of unresolved trauma. The abuse and neglect they suffered while there has left a mark on their adult lives, as well as the lives of their children through inter-generational trauma.

The unresolved trauma of Aboriginal people who experienced or witnessed physical or sexual abuse in the residential school system is passed on from generation to generation. The ongoing cycle of inter-generational abuse in Aboriginal communities is the legacy of physical and sexual abuse in residential schools.

Being a residential school survivor may also impact your parenting skills. Some people who attended the residential schools have difficulty parenting because of being taken away from their parents and placed in an institutional setting. They only know what they experienced as children without parenting. There were many children who were physically, emotionally, spiritually and sexually abused at the school.

Children whose parents went to these schools are still feeling the legacy of the residential school system. The legacy of residential schools includes: loss of self-esteem and identity; loss of language and culture; damage to parenting skills; difficulty in communicating and articulating feelings; alcohol, drug and gambling addictions; family violence; impaired earning capacity; anger and shame.

If you have a valid status number you may be entitled to counselling with no cost to you. Call Family TLC at 705-737-3513 to book an appointment.