The Social Work Consulting Group was established by a small group of social workers from Toronto’s top hospitals and rehabilitation programs with the vision of providing the highest quality of care and support based upon their years of collective experience and expertise. Our social workers have made significant contributions in such leading trauma centres and neuro-rehabilitation facilities including St. Michael’s Trauma Program, The Hospital for Sick Children’s Trauma Program, Toronto Rehab’s Neuro-rehabilitation Program, Bridgepoint Hospital’s Neuro-rehabilitation Program, Community Head Injury Resource Services (CHIRS), the Toronto Community Care Access Centre’s Acquired Brain Injury Program and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre’s Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic.
Our clinical focus is in the area of neuro-rehabilitation, specializing in supporting those individuals and families whose lives have been affected and altered by traumatic injuries including brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and severe orthopedic injuries. Since these injuries occur within a family context, careful consideration must be given to the complex needs and enduring impact upon both the injured individual and the total family unit. We are there to support, educate, advocate, encourage, re-connect and re-activate individuals and their families in order to help optimize recovery, personal success and overall quality of life.
Our services include:
- Psychosocial Assessments
- Community-based treatment intervention
- Adjustment Counselling
- Supportive Counselling
- Grief Counselling
- Psycho-Educational Counselling
- Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for depression and anxiety
- Anger Management
- Individual, Couple and Family Counselling
- Counselling for Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress
- Client Advocacy
- Crisis Intervention
- Case Management
- Linking to Community Resources
- Medical Legal Assessment
Pediatric Program
Our pediatric therapists offer clinical services to children, youth and their families who have sustained traumatic injuries including:
- Acquired brain injury
- Spinal cord injury and,
- Complex orthopedic injuries
Furthermore, our services are also provided to children who have been impacted by such injuries, such as siblings and children of an injured parent. Our services include a psychosocial assessment aimed at gaining a comprehensive understanding of the child’s current level of functioning. This will lead to a targeted, child-friendly approach to intervention focusing on education, supportive counselling and successful re-integration into family, school and the community.
Our approach is a holistic one, which recognizes the importance of parents/family, school and other therapists in the child’s recovery. As such, regular contact and feedback with these stakeholders is an integral and essential component of our practice as we believe this is the best way to guide a child and family to recovery.