Services

As an experienced registered Social Worker, registered Marriage and Family Therapist, and certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Abe will provide you with a service of the highest quality and standard. Proof of the success of his work is that most of his new clients are referred to him by former satisfied clients.

Besides finding a therapist that has the appropriate professional credentials — he or she must also have healthy personal values, and care about you and your family. Abe has all three qualifications — he has the highest professional credentials, healthy personal values, and he sincerely cares about his clients and their families.

At times, life can be very challenging for all of us. We can all occasionally benefit from the assistance of a teacher, coach, or guide during particularly difficult moments in life. Abe is ready to help.

Individual Therapy

For depression, anxiety, anger management, stress, parenting, relationship questions, court assessment and crisis management.

Family Therapy

For communication, loyalty issues, parenting, teenage behavioral problems, excessive conflict and crisis management.

Couple Therapy

For communication, anger control, domestic violence, physical and emotional intimacy issues, infidelity, parenting, excessive conflict, one person wants to end the relationship and the other wants to save it and crisis management.

Letters, Reports, or Assessments

Abe’s specialty and interests are in helping individuals and families resolve personal and family problems and then go on to live healthy and happy lives. He doe not offer as part of his services written or verbal assessments to assists individuals engaged in legal disputes. He will not provide letters, reports, or assessments for doctors, lawyers, insurance companies, or courts.

Counselling Phone Calls

For conveyance and/or crisis management.

Sliding scale. By the minute (end seconds rounded to a full minute)
(Occasional and brief calls by clients are welcomed and free of charge.)

The following are the terms and conditions that apply when an agreement has been made to pay for ongoing counselling services via the telephone referred to as “counselling phone calls.” This will include phone calls made to and received from the client or at the request of the client to someone else: 1. The charge for “counselling phone calls” during regular office hours, which are Sunday 10-2, Monday through Thursday 9-7, Friday 9-2, are at the same rate as an office appointment. 2. Minimum charge for a “counselling phone call” is five minutes. Thereafter, by the minute. Telephone messages left in the voice mailbox are included as a “counselling phone call.” There is no charge when the call is to schedule or change an appointment. 3. “Counselling phone calls” outside regular office hours (see #1 above), are subject to the following conditions: A. Charge for “counselling phone calls” will be increased by ½ time when, upon request, or out of necessity, the call is outside of “regular office hours.” The charge includes travel time to a private and quite place to receive or return the phone call. B. When the office is officially closed during what would normally be “regular office hours,” such as for a personal holiday, the conditions in item “A” also apply. C. Calls “increased by ½ time” mean, for example, that a ten minute “counselling phone call” will be counted as a fifteen minute call. Prices and conditions may change without notice.

Services are reimbursed by many insurance plans

Abe will help you solve the following difficulties and challenges:

  • Adult children and problems with parents
  • Anger management
  • Anxiety
  • Assertiveness training
  • Communication skills
  • Communication skills for teens
  • Conflict resolution
  • Courtship skills
  • Crisis management
  • Depression
  • Domestic violence
  • Honest and open communication enhancement
  • Infidelity
  • Intimacy (physical and emotional) enrichment
  • Leadership skills
  • Loneliness
  • Pre-marital counselling
  • Loyalty issues
  • Love building with a committed partner
  • Negotiation skills
  • Parenting skills
  • Relationship assessment
  • Relationship enrichment
  • Relationship issues with birth-family
  • Sadness
  • Safety building between two people
  • Self-esteem building
  • Stress reduction
  • Teenage behavioral problems
  • Trust building
  • Worry reduction
  • One person wants to end the relationship and the other doesn’t