About Tina Katsikeros Therapy Services in Winnipeg

"The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old but on building the new" - Socrates

Tina Katsikeros Therapy Services is a private clinical practice managed by Tina Katsikeros MSW, RSW, CPT. Tina has a Masters degree in clinical Social Work and is a certified Play Therapist with the Canadian Association of Child and Play Therapy. Tina has an extensive professional experience of over 20+ years working with children, youth and families in community agencies in the field of child therapy.

The Centre offers a multi-modality of treatment services from the knowledge of social work and psychology disciplines. The services offered to individual children, youth, adults, caregivers, families, child welfare authorities, justice agencies and, school professionals to promote the ‘best interest’ of children’s mental health and overall individual’s developmental wellbeing.

Areas of specialty include assessment and treatment of attachment challenges and developmental trauma that individual’s experience.

Clinical interventions will support the strength-based, goal-oriented healing and repair for individuals using the following models:

· Play Therapy -R www.canadianplaytherapy.com

· Thera Play www.theraplay.com

· Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) www.ddpnetwork.org

· Daniel A. Hughes (2009) Attachment -focused parenting. Effective strategies to care for children. N.Y.: W.W. Norton u0026amp; Company.

· Circle of Security www.circleofsecurityinternational.com

· Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Tina also supports and offers consultation and supervision to professionals, care providers caring for the well-being of individual children and youth’s mental health.

Mission Statement

· Tina believes in the value and power of clinical interventions through play therapy and their contribution to individual’s mental, emotional, social, and psychological well-being.

· The corner stone of individual success is through early intervention and goal-focused clinical approaches that result in measurable behavioral change.

· The benefits of individual/child centered in the therapeutic process are manifold, and it is essential to maintain evidence-based efficacy in the clinical interventions.

· Children, youth, family and, communities are at the center of all clinical interventions.

· Tina believes that each child, youth, family and, community partner is unique and that clinical supports should reflect this individuality.

· It is important to maintain a high standard of clinical practice by retaining current research knowledge gathered through the field of clinical psychology in efforts to provide effective service and to enhance the skills to client’s healing/repair.

Core Values

The core values that are the center of the clinical commitment focus on the motto “Finding Hope as We Build Strength and Resilience”. They encompass the dedication of caring to each individual child, youth, adult, family and, community with whom we work.

Respect Connection Advocacy Empowerment

Resiliency Education Compassion Fun/Innovation

Tina strongly advocates and represents the service needs for First Nation Communities (and other cultures).