Family & Group Counselling

Heather Thomas is the principal counsellor at HMCS, and she is has over 10 years experience in conferencing and counselling. In her long and impressive career, she has acted as a liaison between families and the child welfare system as well as helped many families resolve private matters. She now uses her expertise to provide healing and effective conferencing services to families in a confidential, respective way. Heather is skilled at helping families to find common goals and prioritize joint resolutions.

 Heather Thomas

All parties involved in your family matter will be contacted ahead of the conference sharing information that will assist them in their role helping them to know what to expect. There will be guidelines for respectful discussion established which Heather will facilitate and ensure all parties adhere to during the day of your Family Group Conference. Through the Family Group Conference process, your family will create a plan that will address the issues becoming an agreement that parties commit to follow.. There needs to be a spirit of cooperation from the family group to be open to change and a healing process to which parties truly want to resolve their issues!