Betty Ann Streeter, MSW,
Dip in Adv Social Work, RSW
Betty Ann Streeter is a registered Social Worker with much experience in private practice as an Approved Adoption Practitioner and as a Transition Specialist.
Professional Background:
Betty Ann completed a Master of Social Work Degree and a Diploma in Advanced Social Work. In addition to clinical practice, her experience includes college teaching and providing “field instruction” to social work students in clinical settings.
Betty Ann provides services, including the SAFE adoption home study, preparing for and adjusting to adoptive parenthood and post placement support. Counselling is also offered to parties of an adoption as they experience the changes in the lifelong adoption journey.
As a Transition Specialist, her work focuses on assisting clients preparing for and adjusting to significant changes in their lives. Whether change is developmental, predictable or unpredictable, it is always accompanied by losses and gains. These are frequently unrecognized or unacknowledged and leave individuals with mixed and frequently conflicting emotions. The process of identifying and understanding the gains, losses and emotions being felt by the individual supports the individual’s adjustment to the new state.
Betty Ann’s expertise also includes other examples of significant change considering a life changing decision, adjusting to infertility, becoming a parent for the first time or reaching a new stage in parenting.
Areas of Specialization
Adoption Services
One focus of her practice is providing service to parties to an adoption. Ontario residents who are applying to become adoptive parents work with her through the process of completing the required SAFE adoption homestudy. Betty Ann assists her client in identifying the kind of child they can best serve and in adoption options which appear to be open to them. She will offer post placement support and supervision as is required.
Infertility, Preparation for Adoption including SAFF HOMESTUDY, Adoption Options and Networking, Considerations of Adoption Proposal, Supervision of Placement and postplacement support.
Loss and Grief
Loss of loved one, of health , of employment or of community. Identifying emotions and the grieving process; receiving support.
Transitions and Adjusting to Change
Providing counselling and supportive services to individuals who are coping with significant change and the consequent losses, gains and anxieties involved form another focus of Betty Ann’s practice. Examples of transitions would be from student to employee, from single to couple and vice versa, from not being a parent to being a parent, or from employment to retirement.
Change in spousal/marriage state. ie from single to couple, uncoupling; change in state from not being a parent to achieving parenthood. Identifying emotions, losses and gains, and challenges and setting new goals in navigating the changed personal landscape; Change in emotional state such as ANXIETY….understanding anxiety from past and present ; and from inside out; strategies in dealing with anxiety.
Loss and Greif
Betty Ann offers counselling and support through the grieving process and the navigation of the altered landscape.
FEES
Betty Ann offers an introductory call, conducted over phone or Zoom, to explore the fit between the caller’s needs and her areas of specialization. The call lasts about 15 minutes and is free of charge to the caller.
Social Work Services are offered at $175.00 per hour and may be offered at a reduced rate depending on need. Counselling services are not HST attributable are covered by many insurance policies.
The fee for an adoption consultation which provides a detailed overview of the adoption process is $250.00. Questions will be answered. The consultation usually lasts between one and to two hours. The fee for the completion of the SAFE Homestudy is $4,000.00 for a couple and $3,500.00 for a single applicant. The Homestudy fee is HST attritutable.
647-966-7930