YES is dedicated to the empowerment of our youth. It is in response to a deep and painful cry amongst our young people, parents and the community.

One of the aims of Yes is to re-educate and de-mystify the experience of depression and helplessness amongst our young people. The aim is to blow up some commonly held views in our society and empower our kids with  tools, strategies and insights that will have them understanding why they feel the way they do and how they can change it.

WHAT IS "STRATEGIC" COUNSELLING AND INTERVENTION?

Everyone faces bad times and difficult situations. Life can throw us many challenges and there are times when many of us are caught in a painful roadblock that we just can't seem to climb out of. Depression, anxiety, stress, feelings of hopelessness and helplessness all clearly highlight the struggles that so many people face. But not everyone struggles this way.

There are specific skills you can develop to overcome this and prevent these feelings from overtaking your life. More than that you can use these exact same skills to create any life you desire for yourself. The same tools you use to overcome hardship are the same exact tools you will use to create the life of your dreams. You can break the pattern of any negative emotion and behaviour and learn to harness your emotions in ways you have never dreamed possible.

Strategic Intervention uses the most powerful and effective process available today for creating dramatic and lasting emotional and behavioural change. It is the accumulation of the most powerful processes known to not only transform but redefine your current reality.

Wendy Jacobs is one of the most highly skilled thinkers and practitioners in the field of psychology and personal change, her method is practical, strategic, and impactful.

For the past 15 years Wendy has worked with individuals whose challenges were so serious and dire that most other practitioners questioned whether these individuals could be turned around. Her methods create lasting change within the course of a few short sessions.

Strategic Counselling is the new standard for helping people create lasting change. Using advanced strategies for resolving a whole range of human challenges in a way that redefines the problems so that they can be solved and redefined in a way that leads to greater growth, contribution, and common good.

What is Strategic Counselling?

Strategic Counselling and Intervention (also known as SCI) uses the most practical and effective forms of strategic action and communication from a variety of disciplines including Ericksonian therapy, strategic family therapy, Human Needs Psychology, neurolinguistics, psychology of influence, strategic studies, and others.

Our aim

To de-mystify the experience of our emotions and behaviours.

To develop a practical method for taking action in a strategic way so that human needs are fulfilled and elevated.

The tradition of Strategic Counselling originates with the understanding of the power of meaning to shape all aspects of a human being's life.

Our approach is to help people understand what they want, why they want it, and then assist them in creating action plans to close the gap from where they are to where they want to be. We coach people to transform their lives and we believe in everyone's ability to choose and to influence their lives.

Our program is designed to provide the finest resources that exist for creating an extraordinary quality of life. Your job is to use these resources to help yourself and to help others to achieve what they want.

Strategic Counselling and Intervention encompasses:

Strategic family therapy, brief strategic therapy, social action therapy, direct and indirect negotiation, the third side, Ericksonian therapy, structural family therapy, human needs psychology, life-cycle theory of business organizations, conflict resolution techniques, organizational psychology and community organization.

Strategic coaching is a system for ongoing personal development and growth, the possibilities are limitless.