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You’re familiar with dysfunctional relationships. Perhaps you grew up within some tricky family of origin dynamics. You had an absent parent. Or, maybe you’re familiar with parentification [...]

It’s one of the most uncomfortable, confusing and exhausting experiences. Feeling lonely, though you’re surrounded by people. You might have a full home – kids, a spouse. Perhaps you even [...]

Apologizing is something parents often teach their children. I believe repair – which can apologizing – is a healthy part of any relationship. Some individuals, however, can seemingly [...]

I recently saw a meme on social media that said something along the lines of, if you were always the mature, independent child, how is your job as a doctor, lawyer or counsellor going? I [...]

You may have been considering therapy for a while. Perhaps you’ve never tried it, and the thought of sharing some of the hardest stuff feels overwhelming. Or, maybe you’ve gone before but your [...]

Emotional safety are words buzzing around more and more. You might wonder what it means, or what it feels like. Emotional safety is deeply important in the context of any relationship and [...]

You might be familiar with the word shame. It’s possible you can say you’ve felt shame through your life. Or even, you might not recall a time shame wasn’t a part of your everyday lived [...]

You know the feeling. You go from calm to dysregulated in seconds! Dysregulation is your body’s way of indicating that it’s struggling to maintain your internal states. These parts include your [...]

Starting therapy can be anxiety inducing! Whether you’ve had experiences with other counsellors and are starting with a new one, or are starting for the first time, it can be overwhelming. The [...]

Couples often begin to attend counselling because there’s been a rupture, or possibly because they have noticed things getting worse for some time. If this sounds familiar, maybe you can’t put [...]