Child, Adolescent, Parental Support
Ingrid Abitan is a fully bilingual psychoeducator who specializes in building a trusting relationship with children and teenagers experiencing difficult life challenges. Ingrid helps to tackle numerous difficulties which can include parental divorce, emotional difficulties, behavioural difficulties, learning disorders as well as social skills building.
Ingrid is a committed and open-minded therapist who can adapt her approach to different situations while taking into consideration an individual’s strengths and weaknesses.
About Ingrid Abitan
Ingrid Abitan obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at McGill University, graduating with distinction. She then obtained a Master of Sciences at the University of Montreal in Psychoéducation, a program specializing in working actively with children and teenagers living with adaptational difficulties, their families, and their environments.
Ingrid has worked as a school counselor for over 10 years in several daycare, elementary and high school levels (private and public schools). During her time, she counselled students with emotional, behavioural as well as learning difficulties. Ingrid worked actively not only with the child in need, but with teachers, school direction and parents, since she is a strong believer that all members of a child's immediate environment play an important role.
Ingrid has also worked as a group animator/ presenter providing fun and creative workshops to groups of students, teachers and parents on diverse subjects such as self-esteem building, social skills and bullying, self-regulation, parenting strategies, puberty, alcohol and drug use, sexuality etc.
For the pastseven years, Ingrid has been able to use her wealth of knowledge to help support children, teens and their families in private practice. She provides one on one counselling with the goal of helping the child and their parents overcome and better cope with their challenges.
What is a Psychoeducator?
Psychoeducators are trained to help people who are struggling with behavioural adjustment problems in various aspects of their lives. Thanks to their university education, psychoeducators are able to work independently. In addition to conducting clinical assessments and developing treatment plans, they also design and run programs tailored to meet their clients’ needs. They are concerned with both prevention and treatment.
Psychoeducators primarily work in the field. They are involved in the everyday lives of the people they support, and their work depends on sharing experiences with them. They assess problems and propose solutions that address the individual needs of the people they help. By being there, they make a difference.
Ingrid Abitan is a registered member of l'Ordre des psychoéducateurs et psychoéducatrices du Québec.
See more at: http://www.ordrepsed.qc.ca
Services Offered
Clientele:
Anxiety
Depression
Stress management
Behavioural difficulties (anger management, aggressive, oppositional)
Learning delays (including ADHD)
Enhancing social skills
Adapting to separation/divorce
Self-esteem building
Need of structure (routine in home)
Services can be offered in a counseling center, home and/or school environment, and can include the following:
Evaluation
Establish an intervention plan
Proposition of intervention tools
Follow-up
Guidance and support to parents, teachers, and others
**Group workshops also available
All services can be provided in English and/ or French
Services Offered
Group workshops also available
Subjects include:
For Parents:
Routine and structure
Dealing with childhood anxiety
and more..
For Teachers:
Teaching the "whole" child: social-emotional development
ADHD classroom strategies
Social skills development
and more...
For students:
Puberty
Performance anxiety
Bullying-social skills building
Cyber-bullying
Drugs-Alchool: peer pressure
and more...
All services can be provided in English and/ or French
