Trauma is like this:  imagine that when you are young, you experience a shockingly bright light, and you don’t know how to deal with it.  But others around you...

Imagine you are living a thousand years ago, in a part of the world that completely believes that the world is flat.  And imagine that you are a sailor,...

All of our problems are in the mind. Outside of your thoughts about this moment, what is wrong with it?  All of our suffering is in the remembered past...

Because of COVID-19, this year has seen a massive shift in the way that counselling and mental health therapies are happening across the world.  Online therapy is not a...

I am seeing themes of codependence more and more in my work with clients, but also in the people around me, and even in the world.  I don’t think...

One of the essential parts of psychotherapy is to start to understand your own feelings and ideas a little more clearly.  It is crucial, then, that with most of...

Despite the doom and gloom that is portrayed in the media, I think it is important to notice, and point out the possibly unpopular perspective that there is something...

Having worked at a campus affiliate counselling center (Glebe Center, Wilfrid Laurier University) and still having a number of clients who are students, it has brought to light a...

I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say that every day, I talk to a client who tells me, in one way or another, that a good chunk...

Whatever you are going through in your life, whatever challenge you are facing, try asking yourself, “how might this be a lesson in learning to love myself more fully?”...