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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 Self-Sabotage Through IFS and Somatic Therapy
Have you ever found yourself repeating a pattern you genuinely want to change? Perhaps you procrastinate on something important. You stay in relationships that don't feel good. You abandon goals that matter to you. Or you find yourself pulling away just as things...
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 It can leave us feeling depressed, tired, withdrawn and unmotivated.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...
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....
Feel Like a Fraud? Try these 4 tips.
Do you feel like a fraud? Do you have a nagging fear of being found out as not being as smart or deserving? Are you plagued by the feeling and the worry that the world will see you as incompetent? If you feel like a fraud, you're not alone. High achievers like Tina...
Feeling Stuck? It’s not just be in your head.
As a therapist, clients often come to see me because they feel stuck. They feel stuck in a job, or their career no longer satisfies them. Clients may have difficulty fully engaging in meaningful relationships. They tell me that they feel like they’re going through the...