What we do for You
Child and Youth Care Practitioner
Our experience enables us to create therapeutic relationships with children and youth with a variety of needs ranging from mundane to complex.
We develop and implement a wide range of prevention, intervention and treatment strategies to foster positive change and healthy development.
Here at Memory Lane, we apply the principles of relational practice with our clients, while respecting their own unique culture and diversity.
You will feel safe and welcome while experiencing our child and youth counselling services and/or family therapy.
Our Clientele Promise
We promise to be available to you for every step of your journey.
Our goal is to help you grow through your struggles, to help you heal from your pain, and ultimately to help you move towards a happier, more fulfilling and more balanced life. Child and youth counselling services available in one-on-one sessions or try our family therapy sessions and improve your dynamic at home with our Certified mental health counselor.
Our Treatment Focus
Our solution-based focus is here to help individuals heal and become aware of their inner strengths. We achieve this by providing a neutral safe space in which you can speak freely. We actively listen to your concerns and create individually tailored programming to help you achieve new goals for a more balanced life.
Scope of Practice
The practice of Child and Youth Care (child and youth counselling services) occurs within the context of therapeutic relationships with children and youth who are experiencing difficulties in their lives. Intervention takes place within the family utilizing family therapy strategies, the community, and other social institutions. It focuses on promoting emotional, social and behavioural change and well-being through the use of daily life events.
Child and youth care practitioners work with children, youth and families with simple or complex needs. They can be found in a variety of settings such as group homes and residential treatment centers, hospitals and community mental health clinics, community-based outreach and school-based programs, parent education and family support programs, as well as in private practice and juvenile justice programs.
Child and youth care practitioners specialize in the development and implementation of therapeutic programs and planned environments, and the utilization of daily life events to facilitate change.
At the core of all effective child and youth care practice is a focus on the therapeutic relationship; the application of theory and research about human growth and development to promote the optimal physical, psycho-social, spiritual, cognitive, and emotional development of young people towards a healthy and productive adulthood; and a focus on strengths and assets rather than pathology.
Julie Lavigne - CYC
Julie is a supervised Child and Youth Care Practitioner, certified through Algonquin College and the Ontario Association of Child and Youth Care (OACYC), with over 15 years of experience working with children, adolescents and their families in both the private and public sectors. She has extensive formal training with a strong focus on the Autism Spectrum, Therapeutic Crisis Prevention and Intervention (CPI) and the development and implementation of therapeutic programs to help facilitate behavioral change (CBT).
Julie is dedicated to providing child and youth counselling services for our young who are experiencing the effects of trauma as well as to support those who are experiencing behavioural and mental health challenges.
Private sessions and family therapy can be provided by our mental health counselor.
Full Professional Certified Member of the OACYC
The Ontario Association of Child and Youth Care (OACYC) is dedicated to the professionalization of Child and Youth Care by providing Child and Youth Care Practitioners (CYCP's) with high ethical standards of practice, advocating for recognition and growth of the profession, and by supporting the professional development of practitioners who provide child and youth counselling services.
Associate Member of the CASDA
CASDA is a group of organizations and individuals that share the common belief that Canada’s Federal Government needs a National Autism Strategy and that all Canadians with Autism should have full and equal access to the resources they require to achieve their full potential.
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