Managing Student Anxiety:
A Group for College and University Students

Just enough anxiety gets us moving and helps us avoid procrastination. Too much anxiety, causes avoidance, impairs our ability to reach our full potential, or only allows success through suffering.

FLEX's 4-week Managing Student Anxiety group is designed for post-secondary students who would like to learn strategies to manage stress and anxiety in a non-threatening, supportive environment. Learn how to understand anxiety and its effects, and how to make it work for you, not against you.

You will learn:
  • The purpose/function of anxiety
  • Good self-care habits
  • Cognitive-behavioural strategies
  • Mindfulness skills

​Date: Thursdays, October 19th to Nov. 9th, 6pm to 8pm
Length: 8 hours total, 4 sessions at 2 hours each

Location:
Cornerstone Clinic - Suite 313C
1 Promenade Circle (Promenade Mall)
Thornhill, ON

Facilitators: Carolyne Lee and Jessica Danilewitz
This program is intended to be therapeutic in nature. It may be covered by your extended health plan as a Psychological Service.​​

Start Fresh:
Learning Strategies for Bright Students

Start the semester off right with a new toolkit of strategies and techniques that will transition you from "being smart" to "acting smart". The goal of the strategy/transition program is to provide you with techniques that allow you to work quickly, but still obtain top notch results:
  • Note-taking techniques - Learn how to take notes that not only help you learn, but prepare you for studying.
  • Reading strategies - Discover ways to read your textbooks and novels more quickly, with increased comprehension, and improved memory.
  • To-do's and to-don't's - Advanced techniques to keep track of what needs to be done and when
  • Project management and organization - How to break any project down into smaller and more manageable steps while avoiding procrastination.
  • Studying techniques - Learn how to make a study schedule, to organize yourself for studying, and the best way to get information and make it stick.
  • Test-taking techniques - Getting information in is only part of the problem. Learn how to extract and convey all that you know during tests.

Our initial workshop day(s) will cover all of the topics listed above. The month (4-5 weeks) following the workshop the student will participate in online sessions with the facilitator to help implement the strategies and adapt them to their current course-load. Finally, attendees are welcome to attend (at no additional cost) the exam study workshops offered prior to college/university and high school finals. Those workshops will help reinforce the exam training from the initial workshop prior to this high stakes testing period.

Date: See our schedule
Length: 10 hours total. Initial workshop is 6 hours (Two three-hour sessions); Online approximately 2 hours (Four thirty-minute sessions); Exam workshop is 2 hours.

Location: Cornerstone Clinic - Suite 313C - 1 Promenade Circle (Promenade Mall), Thornhill, ON
Facilitators: Michael Decaire and Jessica Danilewitz

Cost: $500 (Inclusive of the group session, online individual therapy sessions, and exam workshop).

Who should attend: FLEX's Student Workshop and Therapy Group series was designed specifically for the bright and gifted population. Attendees should be students who are motivated to succeed, but are perhaps not obtaining the results they want. It is a program designed for those who are working hard, are smart, but are perhaps not working smart. It's about teaching the bright and gifted how to leverage their strengths to be strategic, solution focused, and efficient.

This program is intended to be therapeutic in nature and is designed to remediate learning disorders and related exceptionalities. It may be covered by your extended health plan as a Psychological Service if the participant has received a diagnosis that would be considered compromising to their learning.

Social Success:
An Interactive Group for Children Ages 7-10

Designed for children experiencing difficulty socializing with their same-age peers, this theme-based group was designed to be highly engaging and to provide real world practice socializing with other children.

It is an engaging and play centric program that will keep your child engaged, focused, and learning.

Your child will build on the following skills:
  • Self-esteem and self-worth
  • Emotional self-expression
  • Active listening and responding skills
  • Turn-taking and patience
  • Eye contact and body language
  • Communication and conversation skills

Date: Mondays, November 6th to 27th, 5:30pm to 7pm
Length: 6 hours total, 4 sessions at 1.5 hours each

Location:
Cornerstone Clinic - Suite 313C
1 Promenade Circle (Promenade Mall)
Thornhill, ON

Facilitator: Amy Friedman
Assistant: Zahava Bagola
This program is intended to be therapeutic in nature. It may be covered by your extended health plan as a Psychological Service.​​​

Study Smart:
An Exam Prep Workshop

​FLEX is excited to offer a focused training on exam preparation, study techniques, and test-taking strategies. Anchored in the neuro-science of how we acquire and retrieve memories, students will leave with an understanding of how early they should start preparing for exams, how to design and implement effective study schedules, and how to work strategically during examinations to show all that they know. Test anxiety will also be discussed, with a demonstration of techniques to resolve anxiety and keep your brain "online".

Date: November 6, 2017, 6pm to 8pm

Location:

Cornerstone Clinic - Suite 313C - 1 Promenade Circle (Promenade Mall), Thornhill, ON

Cost: $50 (This session is a education lecture and is not covered by insurance plans for psychology)

Presenter: Jessica Danielwitz
This low cost workshop is an education lecture and would not be covered by insurance plans for psychology.
Can't make the workshop? We have options:

Complete it one-on-one:

Date: By Appointment
Length: Approximately 2 - 1 hour sessions
Location: Cornerstone Clinic - Suite 313C - 1 Promenade Circle (Promenade Mall), Thornhill, ON
Therapist: Jessica Danilewitz
Cost: $165/hour

Through Pre-Recorded Webinar:

Date: Whenever you want!
Length: 2 hours; Divided into smaller on-demand segments
Location: Wherever you are!
Presenter: Michael Decaire
Cost: $10-30

Pre-Recorded Webinars will be available for purchase in October 2017.