Fee For Service

Across 12 weeks, caregivers and clinicians will work collaboratively to develop individualized strategies to:

* Foster healthy bedtime routines

* Minimize bedtime refusal

* Facilitate falling asleep and staying asleep.

This service is supervised by a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA).

Age: All Ages

Service Length: 12 Weeks

Date/Hours per Week: 1 hour per week

Contact a Service Coordinator for more information at serviceinfo@bethesdaservices.com

Across 12 weeks, caregivers and clinicians will work collaboratively to develop individualized strategies that may support:

*trying new foods

*increasing food quantity

*improving meal times

*motor skills to support eating

This service is supervised by a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA) and may include consultation with an Occupational Therapist to further explore any unique or additional motor and sensory challenges that may be impacting your child’s food choices.

Age: All Ages

Service Length: 12 Weeks

Date/Hours per Week: 1 hour per week

Contact a Service Coordinator for more information at serviceinfo@bethesdaservices.com

Toilet training is an important milestone and can be a developmental obstacle for children with ASD. Our evidence-based toilet training interventions are designed to help caregivers teach their child critical toileting skills. Our ABA team will work with you to develop a 12 week plan, with up to 24 direct hours of service.

Goals for toilet training can include:

• Desensitization to the washroom/sitting on the toilet

• Intensive toilet training

• Bowel movement training

• Teaching your child to request to use the washroom

• Washroom hygiene

• Desensitization to public washrooms

Age: All Ages

Service Length: 12 Weeks

Date/Hours per Week: Individualized plan that includes 24 hours over 12 weeks

Contact a Service Coordinator for more information at serviceinfo@bethesdaservices.com

Bethesda’s Multiple Goal ABA provides applied behaviour analysis (ABA)-based programming to meet the needs of children and youth with ASD and their families. Multiple Goal ABA includes one-to-one intervention sessions, caregiver training, and ongoing supervision from a Registered Behaviour Analyst.

Program goals are based on individualized assessment and developed in coordination with the family. Goals will focus on teaching socially significant skills over multiple domains including:

• Communication

• Learning readiness

• Play skills

• Imitation skills

• Fine and gross motor skills

Age: Up to 17

Service Length: 6 Months

Date/Hours per Week: 10 Hours per week, Monday to Thursday 1:00pm - 3:30pm

Price: $29,500

or

Date/Hours per Week: 15 hours per week, Monday to Friday 9:00am - 12:00pm

Price: $39,500

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A Psychological Assessment provides a comprehensive evaluation of a child/youth's cognitive and adaptive functioning and may include social, emotional development, and academic achievement measures.

The assessment process may consist of interviews, observation, testing, and consultation with other professionals.

The assessment can be used to assess eligibility for developmental services.

Cost: $2500*

*Services may be eligible for billing to private insurance providers.

Occupational Therapy (OT) is a health profession that works with children/youth and their families. They help identify factors that might impact a child/youth's ability to participate in daily life activities, e.g., self-care, play, social communication, and coping skills.

OT assessment and intervention will focus on understanding how motor skill development, sensory responses, and visual-perceptual skill development are linked to the child/youth's participation and provide therapeutic strategies to help enhance these skill areas.

Cost:

Assessment: $200 per hour

1:1 Therapy :
60 mins: $175
45 mins: $112.50
30 mins: $75

Occupational Therapist Assistant (Specific goals)

Supervised by the OT:
60 mins: $110
45 mins: $82.50
30 mins: $55
*Plus supervision fee

* Services may be eligible for billing to private insurance providers.

Speech-Language Pathologists (SLP) work with families who have concerns about their child/youth's communication development. SLPs assess and treat a broad range of speech, language, communication, swallowing, and eating problems.

Cost:

Assessment: $200

1:1 Therapy :
60 mins: $175
45 mins $112.50
30 mins: $75

Communicative Disorder Assistant (Supervised by the Speech and Language Pathologist)
60 mins: $110
45 mins: $82.50
30 mins: $55
*Plus supervision fee)

* Services may be eligible for billing to private insurance providers.

Psychotherapy

“The practice of psychotherapy is the assessment and treatment of cognitive, emotional or behavioural disturbances by psychotherapeutic means, delivered through a therapeutic relationship based primarily on verbal or non-verbal communication” (Psychotherapy Act, 2007, Section 3). “In a therapeutic relationship, techniques are delivered to improve impaired judgement, insight, behaviour, communication or social functioning due to a disorder of thought, cognition, mood, emotional regulation, perception or memory”.

Some examples of why people reach out to a psychotherapist may include concerns with anxiety, depression/suicidality, anger, stress, low self-esteem, trauma/PTSD, interpersonal relationships and many more.

Psychotherapeutic intervention may integrate various modalities into treatment, such as Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. All modalities are approached through a trauma-informed and cross-cultural lens.

The controlled act of psychotherapy is provided by a Registered Psychotherapist through the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).

We provide psychotherapy services primarily to children, adolescents and adults who either have a developmental disability with co-occurring mental health concerns or are related to someone with a developmental disability.

Cost: $160 per hour*

* Services may be eligible for billing to private insurance providers.

Social Work

Social Work is a regulated health profession that supports individuals, families, and groups to help improve their social, emotional, and overall sense of well-being.

Social work intervention may utilize modalities such as Brief Solution-Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Mindfulness, and more.

Social Work intervention is provided by a Registered Social Worker through the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW).

Social Work assessment and intervention will focus on the social and emotional wellbeing of the child or youth using a strengths-based, person-centered approach to understand the root cause of emotions, and provide psycho-education and emotional support to cope with difficult situations, thoughts, or feelings.

Cost: $160 per hour*

* Services may be eligible for billing to private insurance providers.

Meet the Team

Allison Baxter MSW, RSW

Allison is a Registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. She holds a college diploma in Social Service Work from Mohawk College, undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Social Work from the University of Windsor and Wilfrid Laurier University respectively, and a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Waterloo. Allison has also completed post-graduate certificates in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Trauma from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Allison has been working in the field of developmental services for over ten years, and has been a registered Social Worker since 2019. Allison uses a person-centred, trauma informed approach, integrating modalities such as Brief Solution-Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Mindfulness, and more into her practice.

Emily Jones, MA, Registered Psychotherapist

Emily is a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario. She has completed an Honours Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from the University of Toronto and a Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University. Emily completed her clinical training at the St. Catharines hospital in the outpatient mental health department where she was able to support individuals with a wide range of mental health concerns, providing both individual and group therapy.

Emily has been working in the developmental services field since 2020. Emily is very passionate about helping individuals with complex and comorbid mental health challenges. She utilizes an integrative approach to therapy, borrowing from many modalities. Some of the therapeutic modalities she uses include CBT, DBT, ACT, MBCT, psychodynamic therapy, and person-centered therapy, all of which are approached through a trauma-informed and cross-cultural lens.

Bethesda will work with community partners to customize educational opportunities, such as workshops and training, in various content areas, e.g., Autism Spectrum Disorder, Applied Behaviour Analysis, Occupational Therapy, or Speech-Language Pathology.

Examples of recent activities provided to community partners include: "Functions of Behaviour," "Every Moment is a Teachable Moment," "Autism and ABA," "Proactive Behavioural Strategies," and "Understanding Sensory Processing."