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Find the Best Psychotherapist in Toronto: Your 7-Step Guide
Finding the right therapist in Toronto can feel like a daunting task, especially when you’re navigating through feelings of stress, anxiety, or trauma. However, the best psychotherapist (for you!) can make all the difference in your journey toward healing. Whether...
4 Ways to Rewire Your Nervous System for Resilience
In today’s world, many of us are living with the effects of trauma and anxiety, and one of the most significant ways these issues manifest is through a dysregulated nervous system. When our nervous system is out of balance, it can contribute to ongoing stress,...
Healing from People-Pleasing: Let IFS Help Reclaim Your Power
Are you someone who finds it difficult to say "no"? Do you often feel the need to please others, even at the expense of your own needs and well-being? If so, you might be familiar with the fawn response, a trauma-related coping mechanism that can lead to unhealthy...
Want to Release Trauma Stored in the Body? Try EMDR.
EMDR therapy in Toronto offers effective trauma and anxiety recovery. Learn how this evidence-based treatment helps release stored trauma, reduce emotional distress, and promote healing. Book a consultation with a trusted Toronto psychotherapist specializing in trauma healing.
How Childhood Trauma Impacts Mental Health – And How To Heal
THE IMPACT OF TRAUMA The ACE Study highlighted that childhood trauma is pervasive across all demographics - regardless of ethnicity, education, or income level. It underscored the reality that trauma doesn’t discriminate and affects people from all walks of life. The...
The Best Psychotherapies to Heal from Trauma and Anxiety
Do you ever feel like your emotions overtake you? It’s as if anger, anxiety, panic, fear, sadness, or numbness hijacks your body. When we experience something overwhelming or traumatic, whether it's a "little t" or "big T" trauma, the brain can stay stuck in survival...
Are Suppressed Emotions Making You Anxious?
I see a lot of clients wanting help for their anxiety symptoms. Sometimes their anxiety is connected to the things that are going on in their lives. Other times, their anxiety isn't explicitly related to any situation or event in their life. They report feeling...
Feeling Angry? Beyond anger management tools
Anger can be an intense emotion making many individuals afraid of their anger or view it as inappropriate. When anger is misdirected, it can lead to poor decisions, interfere with relationships and can do harm to others. However, like all emotions, anger has a...
Are you in a Codependent Relationship?
Codependency is a term that is thrown around these days. While there are various definitions, there are several characteristics that most therapists have agreed upon. Codependent relationships can exist between spouses, children and parents, friends, colleagues, etc....
Are Feelings Uncomfortable for you? Try this.
When you think of a phobia, what comes to mind? Perhaps spiders, flying, and heights? What about a phobia of your feelings and bodily sensations? Such fears and phobias are not as uncommon as one would think. Our inner experience is what we think, feel, remember,...