Pre-Marital Counselling
Pre-Marital Counselling: What is it & How can it benefit my relationship? Regardless of the stage you are at in your relationship, counselling can be incredibly helpful in learning how to reconnect and repair rifts or ruptures in relationships. Relationships are inherently challenging, but society makes it seem that a healthy relationship is one with
Happy New Year! Goodbye Resolutions, Hello Intentions
As we ring in a new year, let’s leave pressurizing and disappointing resolutions in 2023. Instead, try focusing on what your INTENTIONS are for the new year. Resolutions create significant pressure and tend to end in disappointment and reduced motivation. The challenge is that resolutions can be too specific and unattainable in the short term.
Healthy Holiday Survival Guide
How about consciously creating a healthy holiday survival strategy for yourself and/or your family this year? For many people, the holidays elicit a sense of warmth, connection, celebration and joy. For others, it may be a very difficult time of year based on losses, challenging familial, relationship or social dynamics, eating or drinking challenges at
5 Tips to Feel Lighter When it’s Dark Out!
As the days get darker, shorter and colder, we can often feel the shift mentally, emotionally and physically. Our outlook may change, our emotional state may feel heavier and our bodies could feel tight, stiff or lacking energy. Here are our top tips for improving mental, emotional and physical states during this time of
Career Counselling & Assessment
Did you know that the average working person spends approximately 80% of their waking hours at work? We generally spend more time with our colleagues than we do our friends and loved ones! When we are not experiencing satisfaction or fulfillment at work, it can impact other areas of our lives, including our relationships, emotional
Back to School & Return to Office Anxiety: Are You Feeling Tense?
How do you feel towards the end of August? Are you wistful, sad and mourning the end of the carefree days of the summer season? Are you eager to start a new Fall season?? Do you experience the September Scaries – fear, hesitancy or discomfort about the upcoming school year??? Interestingly, even non-student adults experience
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
What is Internal Family Systems (IFS)? Internal family systems (IFS) is an individualized approach to psychotherapy that involves accepting and validating all of the various parts of the mind, and their interaction with one another to form a system of self, or family. IFS allows individuals to work towards healing without compromising these various parts
Anxiety – What is it & How can I manage it?
What is Anxiety? Anxiety is an uncomfortable mental, emotional and physical experience that most of us are very familiar with. While Anxiety is a natural human response, experiencing too much of it too frequently can be extremely upsetting, frustraing, scary and can escalate to panic. It affects us as an unpleasant mind-heart-body experience that impacts
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
We offer EMDR Therapy! Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, referenced as EMDR, is a form of psychotherapy that promotes healing from difficult experiences in childhood, adolescence or adult life. EMDR helps alleviate the symptoms and emotional distress that some individuals face. A main benefit of EMDR is the time frame in which people see results
Are You Experiencing Seasonal Affective Disorder OR a Seasonal Attunement Response?
At this time of year, much is discussed about changes in mood and energy and it is generally attributed to Seasonal Affective Disorder. Given the medicalization and pathologization of our emotional states, which does not sit well with those who take a more holistic approach to wellness and healing, is this the proper way to