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Compassionate, practical guidance from our registered psychotherapists on anxiety, relationships, parenting, trauma and everyday mental health.
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The Empty Chair at Thanksgiving: Grief, Estrangement and the Family Table
The hard part is rarely the day itself. It is the ten days before it, when the texts start going around about…
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The 6pm Rage: When You're Angrier at Your Kids Than You Want to Be
It is a quarter past six. Dinner is twenty minutes from being ready, the homework folder is still in the car, and…
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It's Not “Being a Bit OCD”: What Intrusive Thoughts Actually Are
You are chopping vegetables and a thought arrives, fully formed and horrifying, about the knife in your hand. You put it down.…
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“Nothing Bad Enough Happened to Me”: Why Small-t Trauma Still Counts
There is a sentence that comes up in first sessions more often than almost any other. Someone describes fifteen years of something,…
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Addiction Is Not a Moral Failing
August 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day, marked in dozens of countries every year since 2001. Its symbols are purple and a…
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Leaving for University: The Transition Nobody Prepares You For
Every August, minivans across the GTA fill up with mattress toppers, power bars, and a teenager pretending to be less nervous than…
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It’s Not Shyness: What Social Anxiety Actually Feels Like
There’s a specific kind of tired that follows a work event. You went, you smiled, you managed. Then you sat in your…
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The August Scaries: Why Back-to-School Anxiety Starts Weeks Before School Does
The first back-to-school commercial usually airs while it’s still 30 degrees outside. Somewhere around that same week, a lot of kids get…
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BIPOC Mental Health Month: Why Culturally Responsive Therapy Matters
July is recognized as BIPOC Mental Health Month, an observance that began in the United States as Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority…
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When Summer Makes You Sad: Understanding Reverse Seasonal Depression
Everyone knows about winter blues. The short grey days, the cold, the urge to hibernate until April. Entire industries exist around surviving…
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Summer Burnout Is Real: Why Chasing the Perfect Summer Is Exhausting You
Somewhere around mid-July, a strange kind of tiredness sets in. Not the satisfying tiredness of a day at the beach. The other…
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What Clinical Supervision Means for Your Therapy (and Why Our Founder Is Teaching It Across North America)
We have some news we’re genuinely proud of, and it’s the kind of news that says something bigger about the care you…