Vancouver Counselling & Therapy: The Wishing Wells Counselling Service

We provide children, individual, couples and family counselling service in the Oakridge area in Vancouver, BC.

Articles about Adolescence / Teenagers


Are You Depressed?

By Pablee Wong, MC, RCC, RMFT, RPT-S

It is impossible to avoid ups and downs in our lives. Feeling sad, angry and frustrated towards disappointments are normal part of human experiences. We often use the word “depressed”, yet, what does it mean when someone is clinically depressed?
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What is Play Therapy?

By Pablee Wong, MC, RCC, RMFT, RPT-S

What is Play Therapy?

Parents often ask what play therapy is and how play therapy can help dealing with their children’s behavioral and emotional problems. Play Therapy differs from regular play as well as regular “talk therapy”. When it comes to counselling children, the method we use is play therapy instead of talk therapy. Children are too young to articulate the intensity of their struggles with words. Therefore, “Play” will be the words and the medium for children to communicate their feelings and struggles at hand. With the use of selected materials & toys, and in a safe environment with necessary limits; the trained play therapist supports children to work through their struggles with their inner potentials and resources.

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Struggling with Anxiety

By Pablee Wong, MC, RCC, RMFT, RPT-S

Struggling with anxiety can be a very frustrating, unpleasant and exhausting experience. Daily routines may be hindered or delayed, physical symptoms may draw unwanted attention, even enjoyable activities may require extra effort to actualize. Anxiety could potentially be a significant roadblock to an otherwise carefree life. If left unattended, anxiety can become a distressing problem to live with.

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