MENtal Health
November is Men’s Mental Health Month and it’s time to expand the conversation about male socialized invulnerability. Like women, men are able to experience the vast range of human emotion. 😀☺️🙂🥲😒😞😡😥😭😤😫 However, there are major differences. Women are generally given permission to feel, whereas men tend not to be. The judgment and negative perception can
Somatic Therapy: A Mind-Body Approach to Healing
Somatic therapy is an approach to healing encompassing the powerful mind-body connection. We don’t use the term ‘mental health’ in our practice, as we are aware of the innate embodiment of our emotional states. We don’t just feel in our heads, we feel in our hearts and bodies. We take a holistic approach to health
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
Welcome Freshta!
We are excited to welcome Freshta Jamasi to our team of passionate psychotherapists! Freshta is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), offering in-person and online appointments. She takes a collaborate, person-centered and anti-oppressive approach in her work with clients, integrating Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Narrative Therapy and Mindfulness-based Interventions in her work. Creating a safe, non-judgmental
Non-Student Back to School Anxiety: Do You Feel Tension At This Time of Year?
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, which could relate to a fear, hesitancy or discomfort about the upcoming school year??? Interestingly,
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
Now Offering EMDR Therapy!
We are excited to announce that we are now offering EMDR! Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, better known as EMDR, is a form of psychotherapy that promotes healing from difficult experiences in childhood, adolescence or adult life and helps alleviate the symptoms and emotional distress that some individuals face. One benefit of EMDR is the
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