FINDING JOY FAMILY AND PARENTING SERVICES
ABOUT MYSELF
Hello! I provide family and parenting support and access supervision. I am a single mom of two teenagers - a daughter who is 19 and a son who is 16. I have created a lifetime career in supporting families to heal, feel heard, and to find joy. This passion has stemmed from my own life experiences, and my firm belief in the good in people and the restorative power of human connection. I have worked for over 27 years with children, youth and families, and I am particularly passionate about working with children and parents who have experienced trauma and are in crisis, and who are feeling alone, isolated, and frustrated. My practice focuses on family members who need support to begin to understand themselves and their lives better, so they can move forward and be closer to a life that brings them peace, connectedness, and happiness as a family. I have worked in the fields of maternal and post-natal care, child abuse, parent-child/teen conflict, substance use and mental health, child behaviours, parenting conflict, separation and divorce, domestic violence, online safety and human trafficking. I believe in people’s ability to create change for themselves, and to find the answers, and my role is simply to support you in doing so. I work with family members from a non-judgemental, trauma-informed, strength-based, family centred approach. I am thrilled to begin helping you and your family find joy!
WHAT I OFFER
PARENTING AND FAMILY SUPPORT
Parenting and family support is exactly that: supporting you as a parent and as a family to build on your strengths as individuals and as a whole, to create more opportunities for connection, and joy!
What can I help you with – communication within your family; worries about your relationship; feelings of uncertainty and confidence as a parent; worries about your children’s safety online, in the community, in relationships; worries about connectedness as a family; becoming the best mother or father you hope to be; worries about safety in relationships; reaching your individual and family goals; managing behaviours; working through separation issues for your family; supporting you to make a plan to begin a deeper journey through therapy and other services; anything that might be impacting you and your family!
What I can help you do – identify areas of struggle in your family, individually, as parents together, as a family; empower you and your family to feel in control of positive change; help to put pieces of the puzzle together to better understand triggers, responses, and to clarify strengths and challenges; help you to create small steps to bring about the change you wish to see; problem-solve with you along the way; provide options for additional supports to consider; be flexible and creative in how we work together to meet your family’s needs.
SUPERVISED ACCESS
Experienced in working with children and families, and in supervising visits, I offer supervised access (now referred to as Parenting Time) support. I am able to provide supervision of your parenting time in your own home or in the community, as well as supervised access exchanges. I am also able to provide notes of my observations for each supervision visit, if required.  If you are hoping to work on something related to your parenting during your time with your children, please let me know and we can work on this together to ensure that your time with your child is as meaningful and joyful as possible.
All services are provided in the Greater Toronto and surrounding areas.
Supervised Access:
$100 intake administration fee which covers a phone consultation regarding your family’s needs, planning and scheduling.
$50 per hour virtual or phone session
$65 per hour in-person parenting time supervision, either in your home or in the community
travel fees to be determined
Family and Parenting support:
Free 15 minute consult
$140 single in-person session, or $65 single phone session, for if you just need some advice and reassurance
If you are hoping for continued support, we can customize a plan that works for your family in terms of frequency, duration and goals you'd like to work on:
$100 phone intake to get to know your worries and wishes for your family
$140 per session; which includes email/text contact during the period of my work with your family, as well as phone check-ins to review our goals and to plan our work together. You can choose your sessions to be virtual/phone sessions or in-person, or a combination of both, to best meet your family’s needs. My in-person sessions are conducted in your home, for your convenience and comfort. Our sessions and phone appointments can be scheduled in the evenings and on weekends, if that better suits you! I can work with children, youth, parents, or families all together depending on your goals.
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CONTACT FINDING JOY FAMILY AND PARENTING SERVICES
Toronto, ON, Canada
905-751-8652
FINDING JOY FAMILY AND PARENTING SERVICES
KRISTEN CHAMBERS
Feel free to reach out with any questions! I look forward to supporting your family's goals!