Events
Coming Soon
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Blue Monday Dopamine Boost
January 20th, 2024
7:30-9:00PM
Location: TBC
Blue Monday is real! We have collaborated on an interactive fun workshop to help us all get through the Barrie Winter blues.
Want to learn more?
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Moms with ADHD Mastermind
Are you a mom or woman who struggles with focus, time management or trouble completing tasks?
Join Victoria Gray RSW for real tools to help you feel more in control of your life. Connect with others who understand your challenges and develop accountability for making changes in your life.
Dopamine Workshop
Blue Monday refers to the third Monday in January, often considered the most depressing day of the year due to a mix of post-holiday blues, cold weather, and unmet New Year’s resolutions. However, this is the perfect time to shift the focus and reclaim your well-being. Joining a dynamic, interactive mental health workshop on this day offers a chance to break free from the winter slump. Engaging with others, learning practical strategies, and connecting in a supportive environment can lift spirits, foster resilience, and help you embrace the months ahead with renewed energy and positivity.
Moms with ADHD workshop
Are you a mom with ADHD or struggle with focus and concentration?
Join us at the downtown branch of the Barrie public library to learn evidence based tools to help you feel more prepared, focused and ready to face life!
Cost: $25
Registration coming soon!
*if cost is a barrier reach out
In Her Strength
In an encouraging space, you'll learn to listen to your body's signals, celebrate its strength, and connect with other people on a powerful journey of self-acceptance and empowerment.
Weekly themes & topics include:
personal values & strengths, empowerment through knowing your own body, relationship & communication styles, burnout & stress management, sexual health, self compassion and the connection between inner peace
and mindful living
*May be covered by insurance benefits under Social Work
Muskoka Bay Babymoon
Head to Muskoka for a luxurious weekend for you and your partner where you will:
Mini Maternity Photography Session: Capture the beauty of this precious time with a professional mini photoshoot. Cherish the memories of your babymoon forever.
Perinatal Psychotherapy Workshop (1.5 hours): Embark on a journey of self-discovery and connection with a perinatal psychotherapist. Explore communication, and empowerment through the birth process, and solidify your values for a fulfilling transition to parenthood.
Prenatal Mobility Class with Dara Howell: This one-hour session is designed to keep your body moving, alleviate aches, and promote overall well-being.
Luxurious Accommodations: Relax in opulent surroundings with our carefully designed suites, offering breathtaking views of Muskoka Bay. Every detail is considered to provide the perfect backdrop for your intimate babymoon getaway.
Mindful Mamas
Tools for Living a Less Overwhelmed Life
Do you find yourself losing your cool with your kids, partner or life? While it is so common to feel irritable, overwhelmed and overstimulated as a parent, it doesn’t have to be normal!
If you want to learn how to be more present and enjoy the moments with your family, JOIN US for a workshop focused on reducing distress, overwhelm and building your tools to help you better manage life as a parent.
Angela and Amber bring framework from sensory grounding, EMDR and mindfulness in techniques that can be used by anyone.
* a baby/child friendly class.
A goodie bag of useable strategies will be included for FREE.
Workshop provided by Registered Social Workers – participants may have health benefits that would cover the cost of the workshop. Receipts will be provided.
Midland Women's Expo
Come along to our second annual Women’s Wellness Expo, featuring 35+ women’s focused businesses and services!
Perinatal Loss Processing Group
Support group focused on processing the loss in pregnancy, still birth or the death of an infant. The unimaginable grief that parents experience can be less distressing and this group will focus on building hope in your grief, while supporting parents to feel less alone in your experience.
Group will be in person in Barrie ON facilitated by therapists Jennifer Mather RSW PMH-C and Amber Sperling RSW, PMH-C, EMDR Certified
There is no expectation for parents participating in this group to talk or share their experience.
If you are interested in learning more please reach out to info@ambersperling.ca
Mindful Mamas
Tools for Living a Less Overwhelmed Life
Do you find yourself losing your cool with your kids, partner or life? While it is so common to feel irritable, overwhelmed and overstimulated as a parent, it doesn’t have to be normal!
If you want to learn how to be more present and enjoy the moments with your family, JOIN US for a workshop focused on reducing distress, overwhelm and building your tools to help you better manage life as a parent.
Angela and Amber bring framework from sensory grounding, EMDR and mindfulness in techniques that can be used by anyone.
* a baby/child friendly class.
A goodie bag of useable strategies will be included for FREE.
Workshop provided by Registered Social Workers – participants may have health benefits that would cover the cost of the workshop. Receipts will be provided.
Mindful Mamas
Tools for Living a Less Overwhelmed Life
Do you find yourself losing your cool with your kids, partner or life? While it is so common to feel irritable, overwhelmed and overstimulated as a parent, it doesn’t have to be normal!
If you want to learn how to be more present and enjoy the moments with your family, JOIN US for a workshop focused on reducing distress, overwhelm and building your tools to help you better manage life as a parent.
Angela and Amber bring framework from sensory grounding, EMDR and mindfulness in techniques that can be used by anyone.
* a baby/child friendly class.
A goodie bag of useable strategies will be included for FREE.
Workshop provided by Registered Social Workers – participants may have health benefits that would cover the cost of the workshop. Receipts will be provided.
Trauma Processing Group
Virtual therapy processing group for moms focused on processing perinatal/reproductive trauma: birth trauma, fertility distress, pregnancy difficulties, unexpected birth outcomes, medical stress, postpartum difficulties (ie breastfeeding, difficulty bonding, anxiety, NICU). The group includes a two hour group and debrief after. Register at info@ambersperling.ca provide your name, email address and phone number to reserve your spot. Insurance benefits may cover therapeutic group facilitated by registered social workers.
There is NO requirement to share your own story in this group - you will be guided and supported to process your trauma without sharing and we will do our best to prevent further triggering by hearing the stories of others.
You WILL have the opportunity to connect with other women in this space, to empower each other and feel connected, a sense of belonging and hope.
Engaging Your Senses in Motherhood
Are you a mom or mom to be that sometimes (or often) feels overwhelmed? Anxious? Overstimulated? Maybe you are experiencing a low mood, struggling to connect with your baby and find joy.
Angela Bishop RSW and Amber Sperling RSW are excited to offer a NEW program for moms in the Barrie area focused on Engaging Your Sense in Motherhood.
Engaging your Senses in Motherhood is a six-week therapeutic support group for moms or expecting parents who are struggling to manage emotions, their roles as moms and want to build their coping toolbox while connecting with other moms who *get it*.
Through the six weeks, participants will engage in different ways to use their senses with readily accessible tools to feel more present, grounded and more like the person they want to be. At the end of this support group program, participants will have a greater sense of the power their eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and body have in engaging with the world around them.
Angela and Amber both have years of experience working with new parents, supporting mental health struggles and facilitating support groups.
Insurance may cover all or part of the cost of this psychotherapeutic group if you have coverage for social work – receipts will be provided. Join us for the whole series, or one week, however receipts will only be provided for weeks that you do attend.
WHEN:
Tuesdays @ 9:30am-11:00am
WHERE:
Serenity Birth Studio, 4 Alliance Blvd., Unit 10, Barrie, ON
COST:
$350 (tax exempt)
Amber is a Registered Social Worker and certified perinatal mental health provider with years of working with women, moms and others who struggle with worries, avoidance and low mood that impact relationships and struggle with feeling fulfilled. She is a mom boss who helps people to face the ghosts of the past to be present today thriving as parents and in the world.
Angela is a Registered Social Worker and perinatal mental health provider, specialising in maternal mental health, and all things parenthood. She has a wealth of experience helping individuals work through transitions, worries, low mood and general day to day struggles, including teaching self compassion and acceptance–an area that so many of us struggle with. As a mother of young children, she knows first-hand the challenges of extreme fatigue, pressures from society to “do it right”, balancing relationships as a new mom, combating mood fluctuations, and sometimes feeling unable to effectively cope with the day-to-day. She aims to help others through these struggles to enable them to grow, heal, and find their joy so they can live their life more meaningfully.
This is not a Childbirth Class
This is NOT a childbirth class. It IS a how to manage the transition of going into parenthood more emotionally prepared workshop.
Bring: questions, curiosity & self compassion to meet with other women, and our facilitators (an experience midwife/lactation consultant and a perinatal social worker) who will give you the confidence to face this next chapter with ease.
In this workshop Amber is working with the wonderful Emma Needleman, lactation consultant and former midwife also certified in perinatal mental health.
Journey of Parenthood
Join other parents and parents to be in the Barrie and area community to learn more about what services are available for you to make your life easier, less painful and more fulfilling!
Finding the “Me” in MothEr
Join us for a 90 minute workshop focused on exploring our own identity as mothers and beyond, to build self-compassion and resilience.