Stress Management
Stress Management Did you know that there are 2 different types of stress/stressors? Eustress: Moderate, natural & beneficial stressors (e.g. exercise, travel, work projects). Distress: Extremely unpleasant demands resulting in anxiety & painful emotions or overwhelm (e.g. loss, relationship endings, severe injury). Eustress helps us perform optimally to meet our goals & responsibilities. Distress can
Benefits of Psychotherapy
Benefits of Psychotherapy There are many benefits to engaging in the process of psychotherapy. These include: learning to manage, regulate and soothe our emotional states (especially the painful ones), learning to challenge and re-frame limitations in thinking that can keep us spinning or stuck, learning how to de-escalate and regulate heightened nervous system states, managing
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. Most of our therapists take a somatic therapy-informed approach to psychotherapy. 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
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
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