MARINER & MARINER COUNSELLING & MEDIATION

INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING, COUPLE & FAMILY COUNSELLING & CO-COUNSELLING

Anne Mariner, MA, CCC, RCT  &  Robert Mariner, MA, CCC, RCT

INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING OR PSYCHOTHERAPY:
Choose either Anne or Bob
INDIVIDUALS seeking help may choose to meet with either Bob or Anne, who will assist you in finding solutions for difficulties you are facing.  Reduce stress and overcome emotional upheaval.  Build on your strengths.

MEET WITH A MALE OR A FEMALE COUNSELLOR
    ·    Reduce stress
    ·    Manage anxiety, panic attacks
    ·    Relieve depression
    ·    Recover from trauma, abuse, PTSD
    ·    Control your emotional reactions
    ·    Manage anger
    ·    Sort out your thoughts and feelings
    ·    Increase self esteem
    ·    Handle conflict and stress on the job
    ·    Overcome fear, shyness/social anxiety
    ·    Break from gambling, substance abuse
    ·    Stop compulsive behavior (sexual, Internet)
    ·    Learn relaxation or mindfulness meditation
    ·    Gain relief from obsessing
    ·    Alter self-defeating patterns
    ·    Fulfill your potential
    ·    Defeat your phobia
    ·    Improve relationships with partner, family, others
    ·    Cope with loss, grief
    ·    Adapt to, plan for retirement, layoff
    ·    Learn how to be comfortably assertive
    ·    Adjust to separation, divorce

COUPLE & FAMILY  COUNSELLING OR CO-COUNSELLING

Counselling:  Meet with either Anne or Bob

Co-Counselling:  Meet with BOTH Bob & Anne

COUPLES and FAMILIES may meet together with either Bob or Anne... OR with BOTH Bob AND Anne. You and your partner - or you and your family - will be aided in the search for mutually agreeable resolutions, using a fair and impartial approach.

STRENGTHEN YOUR RELATIONSHIP
Couples learn to work together to resolve conflict
     ·    Build a closer relationship
     ·    Search together for solutions
     ·    Listen with real understanding
     ·    Express wishes without pressuring or controlling
     ·    Restore affection and intimacy
     ·    Enhance sex (talk therapy only)
     ·    Manage jealousy and possessiveness
     ·    Balance career and household  responsibilities
     ·    Resolve financial disagreements
     ·    Reconcile differing views on parenting

COUPLES IN CRISIS
When couples are undecided about whether to stay together, they are guided in making their own assessment of the potential for the relationship.
     ·    Reduce stress
     ·    Determine what changes are needed
     ·    Determine what changes are possible
     ·    After infidelity, give your relationship the best chance to thrive

FAMILY COUNSELLING
     ·    Build strong stepfamilies & blended families
     ·    Improve parent-teen relationships
     ·    Deal with an addicted loved one
     ·    Resolve issues between parents and adult sons and daughters
     ·    Handle in-law difficulties
     ·    Add to your existing parenting skills
     ·    Adjust to single parenting or co-parenting after separation

NOTES REGARDING CO-COUNSELLING FOR COUPLES:
     ·    Many couples prefer the gender balance of co-counselling
     ·    Some couples, unable to agree on a male or female counsellor, can accept co-counselling
     ·    Concurrent individual portions during a meeting are possible

If Your Partner is Unwilling to Try Counselling (at least at this time):
     ·    Learn what changes you can try that may inspire changes in your partner
     ·    Learn how to cope if your partner is unresponsive to your changes
(Note that if you make changes and those save the relationship, that does NOT mean that the problems in the relationship were down to you; in order for relationships to improve, BOTH partners will change, together, even if one takes the first steps.)

Mariner & Mariner Counselling & Mediation    (902) 496-5656
Halifax Professional Centre
740-5991 Spring Garden Road
Halifax, Nova Scotia  B3H 1Y6                              

FOR AN APPOINTMENT
You may be referred by your family physician or another professional.  Or, you are welcome to phone or email for an appointment without a referral.

(902) 496-5656

REASONABLE FEES

•          $80 per hour + HST for Individual, Couple or Family Counselling with Bob or Anne

Cash, cheque, Interac, Visa, MasterCard and American Express accepted.

EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE SERVICES
Services provided are covered by many Employee Assistance Programs, including:
•          EAS - for federal employees and military personnel through Health Canada
•          MAP - for military personnel through Health Canada
•          VAC - for Veterans through Health Canada
•          NSGEAP -  for Nova Scotia Government employees and their families
•          RCMP Health Care Identification Cards accepted
•          Other EAPs

OTHER COVERAGE
Services provided are covered by other organizations and government bodies, including:
•          NS Realtors Association – Realtors Assistance Program
•          NS Barristers Society – Lawyers Assistance Program - for members, their families and employees
•          Victim Services Criminal Injuries Counselling Program through the NS Department of Justice

EXPERIENCED, CONFIDENTIAL HELP
Complete confidentiality except for limits placed by law, such as if someone is threatening to harm himself or herself, or if someone is reporting previously unreported evidence of on-going child abuse, or if records are subpeonaed by a court.
Even if an employer pays for EAP services, the services provided are confidential from the employer, including which employees are utilizing the services.

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BOB AND ANNE MARINER – ABOUT US

    Anne Mariner, m.a., ccc, rct, and Robert Mariner, m.a., ccc, rct, received their Master's degrees in Psychology from Kent State University, Kent , Ohio.  They then completed a year of post-graduate studies in Psychology at Dalhousie University.  At Dalhousie, Anne was awarded an Assistantship and Bob a Killam Scholarship.

    Bob and Anne are Registered Counselling Therapists, adhering to the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice of the Nova Scotia Association of Counselling Therapists.  They have also met the national standards for certification with the Canadian Counselling & Psychotherapy Association.

Counselling approaches include
•          Cognitive Behavioral
•          Social Skills
•          Solution Focus
•          Family Systems
•          Mindfulness

Anne and Bob obtained specialized training in Couple & Family Therapy at the Institute for the Development of Emotional and Life Skills, in Bethesda, Maryland.

Anne and Bob are members of the Canadian Counselling & Psychotherapy Association, the Nova Scotia Association of Counselling Therapists, Family Mediation Canada, and Nova Scotia EAP Association.  They served for seven years on the Board of the Nova Scotia Association of Counselling Therapists. 

LINKS

Nova Scotia Association of Counselling Therapists

Canadian Counselling & Psychotherapy Association

Family Mediation Canada

Counselling and therapy for individuals, couples and families at Mariner & Mariner Counselling & Mediation. Individuals: stress management, depression, anxiety, panic, anger, trauma related to emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, childhood abuse; posttraumatic stress disorder. Couples: improve communication, resolve conflict regarding household chores, money / finances, parenting, sex and affection, stepfamily / blended family issues; after infidelity, give your relationship the best chance to thrive