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Coping Strategies: Good, Bad, or Otherwise?

Let’s face it. Most of us agree that life can be stressful. Between the never-ending demand of responsibility, the always-incoming emails, the never seemingly attainable balance between work and home life, day-to-day living at times can feel overwhelming. 
 
So, what do...

Survival after Trauma

One of the most common reasons to seek counselling is to learn how to regulate emotions. I frequently hear from clients that they have been struggling to manage their emotions and how that is affecting their relationships, job or some...

How Knowing Your Attachment Style Can Help You in Dating

 
Terms like attachment styles have recently made their way into the common lexicon. The theory of attachment was originally developed by John Bowlby, a British psychoanalyst who was curious to explore the intense distress experienced by infants who had been...

How Does My Attachment Style Impact My Relationships?

 
Humans are born with an incredible ability to form attachments, these connections with others are critical to our development, growth, sense of love and self.
 
In the 1950’s John Bowlby developed a theory on attachment styles that are developed in our...

Healing your Inner Child

 
I often find myself wondering what my 3-year-old niece is thinking about. I wonder how she sees the world and her place in it. I wonder how she feels to navigate her little world with so little understanding of what...

Demystifying Dialectical Behavioural Therapy or “DBT”

 
By now, many of you may or may not have heard of a recently popular therapy known as DBT, or Dialectical Behavioural Therapy.
 
Often confused by its sister therapies CBT and ACT, DBT is a therapy initially designed to treat borderline...

Why talk to a therapist instead of family and friends?

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People often consider that they can rely on their friends and family for support, and often they can. There are also times where an individual questions whether friends and family are the best people to be confiding in...

EMDR and The Treatment of Grief

Grief is painful. It is a strong and sometimes overwhelming emotion for people, whether it stems from the loss of a loved one, a divorce, or a terminal diagnosis. Grief can include physiological distress, separation anxiety, confusion, obsessive dwelling on...

Beauty of Metaphor

The experience of being a human is complicated. So complicated in fact that even in trying to describe our own feelings or experiences, we get stuck using language that barely skims over the depth of our emotions. For example, would...