Behavioural Consultation
Behavioural Consultation Services:
Parent Consultation
Learning and teaching ways to regulate, label emotions and find techniques that work and support the child. Teaching and working towards awareness and confidence within the home, community or at school!
Emotional Awareness & Coping
Supporting parents to learn to effectively manage their child's behaviour to promote positive outcomes for the entire family. Educating parents about evidence-based behavioural strategies that can reduce behaviours and promote positive behaviours. Teaching effective communication techniques, problem-solving skills and techniques for setting and enforcing limits in a positive and consistent manner.
Expanding Play Skills
Learning how to follow your child's lead, by having time where you can be creative and engaged in playing with your imagination and encouraging playing with different activities. Using skills from Theraplay to support families and parents.
Social Skills & Interactions
Learning how to teach children to feel confident and independent when at school, in the community, or other places. Using different tips and tricks. Learning how to be successful in modeling and exploring skills to help a child grow and expand.
Our Behavioural Consultants:
Who are ALL Registered Social Workers with the Alberta College of Social Workers!
Tamara Remillard
Tamara has her Masters in Social Work with a focus on Trauma. Tamara has always enjoyed working with children, youth, adults and families. She feels that connection is essential for families. Tamara has worked with children and families over the last few years in their homes, community and in private sittings. She also works in the schools’ supporting teachers with children who have complex needs and behaviour concerns.
Tamara uses play based therapy to work with families and children integrating cognitive behavioural therapy, emotion focused and strengths-based approaches. Supporting the parent and child with learning emotional regulation, how to work as a team and build relationships that work for each family.
When Tamara is not working, she is watching her children play sports, or skiing, camping, hiking, anything outdoors with her family. When she is not busy outside, she loves to curl up with a good book to either learn something new or something to take her away! She has taught her children how to cook so she now gets to enjoy a nice meal that her children participate in making!
Mariann Bierman
Mariann has a Masters of Social Work from the University of Calgary, specializing in Clinical Social Work with a focus on infant, child, and adolescent mental health. Her passion for working with families supporting complex needs and mental health challenges comes from both personal and professional experience, joining her frontline experience in home, school, and community settings with her clinical knowledge to meet families where they are at. She is a registered social worker with the Alberta College of Social Workers.
Working from a family-centred approach, Mariann’s practice seeks to embrace the family as the expert in their strengths, challenges, and goals. From this approach, she introduces modalities of Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and Collaborative Problem Solving to provide realistic strategies and address ongoing challenges. Mariann continues to expand her knowledge and use of therapeutic play and expressive interventions.
On her days off, Mariann is often embracing her introvertness with reading, playing video games, spending time with her cat, and enjoying time with her family.
Erin Williams
Erin holds a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Calgary, specializing in infant, child, and adolescent mental health. With over five years of experience, she has supported children and adolescents facing mental health and behavioural challenges in both residential and community settings, focusing on those clients who have experienced trauma.
Erin employs a client-centered approach and integrates cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques into her practice. She collaborates closely with families to identify their goals and priorities, providing ongoing support to help them navigate their journey toward healing. Erin emphasizes education and skill-building, equipping families with the tools they need to confidently manage mental health, emotions, and behaviours.
Dedicated to inclusivity and reconciliation, Erin works with children and adolescents from diverse backgrounds, striving to create a safe and supportive environment that acknowledges and addresses challenges related to identity.
When she is not working, Erin enjoys reading, playing video games, watching reality TV, and spending quality time with her partner and two dogs.
Katherine Mitchell
Katherine is a passionate and dedicated registered Social Worker who completed her MSW at the University of Calgary and also has a Bachelor of Psychology from Athatbasca University. Prior to her Master’s program she had over 7 years experience working with the disAbility community in both school and various community settings as a behaviour therapist, teachers-aid and community resource worker. During her Master’s program she also did a practicum with a community based disAbility advocacy group that addresses various barriers experienced by the disAbility community to attaining full inclusion in Calgary alongside self-advocates, community allies, professionals and stakeholders in advocating for policy and programming change.
Katherine’s therapeutic approach is centred on a strengths-based practice in supporting children with achieving their goals within the system of their families/natural supports and community resources to facilitate inclusion, gain confidence, foster skill development and attain independence. She integrates components of Applied Behaviour Analysis, augmented communication approaches, emotion regulation and coping strategies as she believes that behaviour is a form of communication.
Her goal is to create an atmosphere that is judgement-free, calm and where families can feel supported in a meaningful way that is unique to them.
During Katherine’s down time nothing is better than baking, reading or being out in the mountains.