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I Love You, But I Don’t Like You Right Now

Have you ever looked at your partner with disdain after cleaning up that empty can of pop they left on the counter or their shoes and coat in front of the door, thinking to yourself that your partner is ‘useless’...

How Does My Attachment Style Impact My Relationships?

 
Humans are born with an incredible ability to form attachments, these connections with others are critical to our development, growth, sense of love and self.
 
In the 1950’s John Bowlby developed a theory on attachment styles that are developed in our...

Healing your Inner Child

 
I often find myself wondering what my 3-year-old niece is thinking about. I wonder how she sees the world and her place in it. I wonder how she feels to navigate her little world with so little understanding of what...

Demystifying Dialectical Behavioural Therapy or “DBT”

 
By now, many of you may or may not have heard of a recently popular therapy known as DBT, or Dialectical Behavioural Therapy.
 
Often confused by its sister therapies CBT and ACT, DBT is a therapy initially designed to treat borderline...

Why talk to a therapist instead of family and friends?

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People often consider that they can rely on their friends and family for support, and often they can. There are also times where an individual questions whether friends and family are the best people to be confiding in...

EMDR and The Treatment of Grief

Grief is painful. It is a strong and sometimes overwhelming emotion for people, whether it stems from the loss of a loved one, a divorce, or a terminal diagnosis. Grief can include physiological distress, separation anxiety, confusion, obsessive dwelling on...

Beauty of Metaphor

The experience of being a human is complicated. So complicated in fact that even in trying to describe our own feelings or experiences, we get stuck using language that barely skims over the depth of our emotions. For example, would...

Kids and Holiday Stress

With the holiday season upon us, December can be a time of exciting celebration but also a time of great stress for adults and children alike. Parents often feel a time crunch of competing demands and regular schedules are disrupted...

Drama Triangle and Conflict

Have you ever found yourself caught in drama or conflict and wondered what was happening? It is probably safe to say if you have ever been in toxic conflict you have most likely experienced playing a role in the Drama...