Smith Counseling Centres is excited about the launch of its new website; the first major change to the website since it was first launched in 2001. In addition to the new look, the new website offers a wide range of new features and functionality for our clients.

The Smith Counseling Centres website has gone dynamic and interactive. Things are continually changing and evolving in the real world, and now the website will also. The most exciting change to you, the client, is that you will now have the ability to post content to the Smith Counseling website, and can stay informed with what is happening within the Smith Counseling community.

The goal is to bring our clients closer together and to strengthen our sense of community. Our group meetings have always been a major contributor to the feeling of community that exists at Smith Counseling. We feel that the more connected our clients feel to the other individuals at Smith Counseling, the more engaged they will be with the group, and the more a client engages themselves with the group, than the more responsive they will be to the therapeutic nature of the group process. It is our hope that allowing our clients to interact with each other on the website will help to supplement that sense of community.

Smtih Counseling is currently looking for input from existing and past clients on what they would like to see from the new website. The website format is flexible and will evolve over time. If you would like to see something on the website that hasn’t been included, let us know.

Additionally, depending on the response, clients of Smith Counseling can be given the ability to post their own content to the website, or comment on content that has been posted by other clients. At this point, the only requirement to post new content to the site is that it has some relevance to what takes place at Smith Counseling. The goal is to give our clients a way to interact with one another outside of Smith Counseling.

Interested? Let us know what you think. We will be posting instructions shortly explaining how to register for the website, and how to create and post content to the site.

Smtih Counseling Centers is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a SMART® Recovery group meeting on a weekly basis. The SMART® group will meet at 7pm Wednesday nights at the Oakland Centre. Meetings are no charge, although donations are accepted, and are open to anyone who would like to attend.