Our Executive Director and Clinic Manager published an article on pitfalls of clinical treatment of trauma in this issue of Connection Magazine:

Social work & clinical treatment of trauma: A caution.

-James

Our rack card for Inside Out is ready!  Check it out here.

-James

Our clinic manager wrote an article featuring the men of ManTalk.  It was published in The Chronicle Herald on October 9, 2021.  as always, we credit the group participants for putting the issue of male sexual victimization on the provincial map. 

Here it is:

JAMES DUBÉ: Male sex-assault victims marginalized | SaltWire

-James

Inside Out 

-A Men’s Wellness Group 

We shouldn’t wait until problems get out of hand before getting help. At the Peoples’ Counselling Clinic, though we work with all genders, we have a special focus on understanding and serving the needs of male-identified persons. 

We have established a new therapy group for men - Inside Out. 

This group is designed to help men who are concerned that they are putting themselves and others at risk. We acknowledge that some who need help will also have experiences of already perpetrating harm against others. 

We focus on helping men heal from: 

● Trauma, neglect, abandonment, and other attachment injuries. 

● All forms of abuse. 

● Poverty and other forms of marginalization. 

● Racism, homophobia and other forms of discrimination. 

To help them stop the hurting. We seek to create a space where all men who need healing from the harm they’ve suffered and the harm they’ve caused can come together to heal. 

Call or email us to schedule a confidential intake. We meet twice per month using a video conferencing platform. 

To be eligible you must be male identified and be 19 years of age and older. We also have support available for partners and families. 

The Peoples’ Counselling Clinic thepeoplescounsellingclinic.ca 200-5435 Portland Place, Halifax, NS B3K 1A2 Phone: 902-832-1593 Fax: 902-832-0061

We have been rapidly expanding and have recently hired two staff members to help.  Kim Salter is our new adminstrative support person.  Kim Gowan, former intern, will be our new counsellor.  She will be serving clients of the Halifax Domestic Violence Court alongside our clinic manager, James.  We plan to announce new projects soon.  

-James

We have two new interns this term...Mercy (Social Work) and Catherine (Counselling Therapy).  It should be a fun couple of semesters!

-James

We are sad to see our intern Jessica leave but are happy that Meghan is joining us.  Her and Zarrin will be continuing to be offer free counselling to existing and new clients.  

Contact us at thepeoplescounsellingclinic@gmail.com or 902-832-1593.

-James 

We are sad to see Kim leave us, although she will not be far.  We are also pleased to announce that Crystal John and Zarrin Ghaferi will be joining us for the next little while.  Crystal will be offering satelite services out of Mulgrave Park Caring and Learning Centre.  Zarrin will be offering services directly out of our clinic.  Should be a great few terms!

-James

Hello,

Both our Executive Director and Clinic Manager published articles in this month's issue of Connection Magazine.  Robert and Colleague Jackie Barkley wrote about the current crisis in child welfare serviecs in Nova Scotia.  James wrote about working with perpetrators of sexual and intimate partner violence.  

Check out the issue here:  https://issuu.com/nscsw/docs/connection_fall2019_webready.

-James

Hey Everyone,

We are pleased to let you know that our online version of ManTalk (ManTalk 2.0) will be launching tomorrow, Wednesday October 9.  For now, we are only offering the online version on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month.  Some ManTalk participants may be joinining in person on those nights as well.  We hope to offer all four ManTalk nights online at some point.  Interested people can contact James to complete an intake for ManTalk and ManTalk 2.0 (intakes can also be  done online). 

-James