MAREAS
Comprehensive Therapeutic Services for Children & Families
MAREAS TEAM
At Mareas, teamwork is at the pinnacle of our service. We carefully select team members based on their expertise, passion and commitment to children and families. Together we bring all of our personal and professional experiences to the clinical team table, to develop a holistic individual plan for each client that comes to Mareas. We believe whole heartedly that drawing from personal life experiences coupled with knowledge and expertise from a variety of sources helps the children and families we work with find success, with programs tailored for their personal needs.
"Alone we can do so little, TOGETHER we can do SO much!" ~ Helen Keller"
Executive Director of Services
“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter” -- B.Henry
Child & Family Therapist
"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals....Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity." Brene Brown
Executive Director of Operations
"Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be." S. Ricotti
Child & Family Therapist
“Enter into children’s play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet.” - Virginia Axline
Child & Family Therapist
"If we share our story with someone with empathy & understanding, shame can not survive." ~Brene Brown
Clinical Consultant/Psychotherapist
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change"
Behaviour Specialist- Support Advisor
“We don’t have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to.” - Brene Brown
Training Specialist
"All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer by the stars" ~ G. Lee
Child & Youth Counsellor
"What we know matters, but who we are matters more" ~ B.Brown
NLP Practitioner & Family Mediator
"Sometimes in the Waves of Change we find our true Direction"~ unknown
Child & Family Therapist
"You can't change what's going on around you, until you start changing what's going on within you"
Child & Family Therapist
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new”. Socrates
Specialized Support Worker
"Be the person you needed when you were younger". -Ayesha Siddiq
Youth Support Worker
"Success is achieved by ordinary people with extrodinary determination" ~unkown
Specialized Support Worker
“Inclusion is the philosophy that embraces the idea that everyone has something of value to contribute and that everyone has the right to belong.” – Lisa Friedman
Specialized Support Worker
"Its not our disabilities but our abilities that count" ~unknown
Specialized Support Worker
"Its not our disabilities but our abilities that count" ~unknown
MAREAS CLASS OF 2020
Karlie Klink, BA, MSW (intern)
Krista McFarland, BA, MSW (intern)
Harpreet Plaha, CYC, BSW (intern)
In addition to our management team, Mareas’ Therapeutic Team also includes access to Registered Nurses RPN, Educational Teaching Assistant, Registered Dietician, Parent Educators & Coaches