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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 Fueling Your Anxiety? A Somatic Approach to Healing
If you’re struggling with anxiety that feels unexplained or overwhelming, you’re not alone. You might feel tense, restless, or on edge without a clear trigger. As a Registered integrative Psychotherapist in Toronto specializing in trauma and anxiety, I often see this...
Understanding Anger from a Mind-Body Perspective: A Psychotherapist’s Guide in Toronto
Anger is an intense, often uncomfortable emotion that many people fear or view as shameful. When unacknowledged or misdirected, it leads to impulsive decisions, strained relationships, and inner turmoil. But anger serves a vital purpose: it protects us. When...
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,...
How to Ease Seasonal Affective Disorder
The winter months can mean hibernation for many with the dark and dreary days of winter here in Toronto. The lack of sunlight and colder weather can have a profound impact on our mood. It can leave us feeling depressed, tired, withdrawn and unmotivated. If you live in...
The Benefits of Self-Compassion & 6 Steps to Get Started
Why is it so difficult to show ourselves compassion? Perhaps you feel undeserving of it? Do you associate self-compassion with self-indulgence or self-pity? Self-compassion can be challenging, especially when criticism rather than compassion is or has been used to...
Are your Beliefs Sabotaging You?
Do you struggle with self-esteem or confidence? Or perhaps there are negative beliefs you have about yourself or the world. While it may seem that this is just how your life is and will be, I want to tell you that you do have the capability to shift the beliefs you...
How Exercise Helps with Anxiety
The benefits of exercise have been long established. We know that sitting for extended periods of time is bad for many areas of our health. It reduces blood circulation, weakens your muscles, and increase the risk for diseases like obesity, heart disease and cancer....
6 Tips to Help You Overcome Anxiety in 2017
The new year is here! The month of January tends to invite motivation, whether it is to face a new challenge, become healthier or make a change in your career. January can make you feel like a new person and conquerable all of your goals.However, it’s undeniable that...