You’ve partnered with your spouse through years of joys and trials, maybe even significant health crises, and managed to find your way through it together. And then you start to notice something that feels different – a decline in your life partner that indicates something they won’t recover from – something that problem solving won’t heal.
10 Benefits of Family Therapy
The reasons for seeking out individual counselling might strike you as obvious. Therapy ingeneral, has become much more mainstream as people recognise the broad benefits forpersonal growth, recovery and enhancing …
Weathering the Winter:
5 tips for your mental health
Whether or not you technically meet the criteria for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), aform of Depression that rears its head during the winter months, it is common for people’smental health …
Helping Your Child Cope With Stress
Did you know that researchers have been able to distinguish between two kinds of stress? There’s EUSTRESS and DISTRESS. Let’s explore these, shall we? EUSTRESS is good for us. It …
5 Things Parents can do to
Help Prepare Their Anxious Kids for School
If you are parenting an anxious child, you probably saw the title of this blog post and thought, “Crap, how is it August already”, and “are you really gonna make …
How Your Partner Can Support You in the 4th Trimester
I’ll bet you (and perhaps even your partner) did a stellar job doing all the right things in preparing for your new, precious family member: you read the books, researched …
Considerations Around Exploring Adoption
If you are thinking about, preparing for adoption, or in the process of adopting, you are likely having thoughtful reflections and conversations about two important things (among so many others): …
Parenting Neurodivergent Kids
If you are parenting a child who has neurodiverse wiring, a diagnosis of Autism, ADHD, OCD, FASD or Trauma, I invite you to sit with me for a few moments …
Couplehood in the Midst of Adoption
By Karen Peters, Registered Clinical Counsellor and Adoptive Mom The decision to adopt isn’t simple, even if you’ve always wanted to go that path to grow your family. The lead …
Paying it Forward:
Wisdom from clients during the pandemic
“Amy” sits on her couch, trying her best to make eye contact with me through her computer screen during an online session and says “I just can’t anymore. I’m exhausted. …
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