r over twenty years I have specialized in the psychology of sexual violence, from research and teaching, writing books on the subject, to counselling survivors. When I tell people what I do, I often get a response like, ‘oh, that must be very difficult and upsetting work’…
Improving Sleep for Better Mental Health: Tips for a Restful Night
Do you often find yourself lying awake at night? Or do you dread going to sleep knowing that you will not sleep well? Getting a good sleep is one of the most critical factors to maintaining good mental health.
Embodiment and Yoga Therapy
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How to Stop Struggling and Start living.
So how do we effectively deal with our most difficult thoughts, feelings, memories
and emotions without becoming so consumed, so stuck, so flooded and so
miserable that we begin to miss out on
Seeing the Forest Through the Trees:
Acknowledging and Accepting our Thoughts and Feelings
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Quick & Easy Grounding Skills
Here is a video by our director Lindsay Faas with some quick & easy grounding skills for anxiety and trauma/stress responses.
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 …
It’s Just Stress…” or Is It?
When mental health impacts physical health
Often when people reflect or take inventory on their health status, they typically only consider physical health and discount their mental health struggles, chalking it up as “just stress”. In …
2022 – A New Hope
This blog post has been taken and re-worked from an episode of Behind the Line, a podcast created to support First Responders & Front Line Workers. Learn more about Behind …
Feeling stressed?
Here’s a relaxing meditation created by one of our therapists, Matt Armstrong. https://www.willowcounselling.ca/resources
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