Your Body Knows: A Body-First Approach to Mental Health

After many years of doing this work, I still get asked “what is play therapy?” There are many different methods of play therapy but in general play therapy provides a space for children and youth to process the many challenges life throws their way by engaging in various forms of play. Play is a form of communication

Breath of Fresh Air

New Years message from Lindsay Faas, owner/director of ThriveLife Counselling & Wellness and Rooted Yoga Studio in Langley/Surrey B.C.

Self-Confidence and performance anxiety for elite athletes

Track Athletes running out of starting blocks

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’…

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

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 …