I Love and Hate Being a Mom
This post is for all the amazing, wonderful women, mothers, and caregivers in my circle. It’s written from both personal and professional experience. Rather than offering strategies, this post is about normalizing a common experience I see time and time again. The struggle I want to focus on here is the mixed feelings we can […]
What is Grounding and How Can It Help Our Mental Health Journey?
Have you ever felt so overwhelmed that you struggled to stay present in the moment? Maybe your thoughts were racing, or emotions felt too intense to handle. Grounding techniques can be a powerful way to regain a sense of stability and control. When I first started learning about mental health, I constantly heard the term […]
What is a Cycle Breaker?
A cycle breaker is an individual who actively works to break unhealthy and negative patterns passed down through family generations. Cycle breakers recognize harmful behaviors or beliefs and take intentional steps to heal, grow, and create a healthier path for themselves and future generations. Many individuals who attend therapy identify as cycle breakers. Examples of […]
What Are the Stages of Change, and What Do They Mean for Therapy?
The Stages of Change is a psychological model developed by James Prochaska and Carlo Di Clemente in the 1970s. Widely used in therapy, this model helps identify where individuals are in the process of changing their behavior. By understanding these stages, therapists can tailor interventions to meet the unique needs of their clients. The six […]
Coping with Generational Differences while Parenting
As the new year rolls into 2025, we also welcome the start of a new generation: Generation Beta. This milestone has me reflecting on how having children challenges our world assumptions depending on how we grew up. Generational differences can sometimes cause conflicts within families. For instance, individuals born in generations where children were expected […]
Burnout
What is Burnout? A topic that has been coming up more and more in my practice is people suffering from varying degrees of burnout. Burnout is defined as a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress (CAMH, 2023). The feeling of burnout can have a big impact in people’s […]
Supporting a Youth Struggling with Suicidal Ideation
One of many parents’ worst fears is learning that their child is struggling and no longer feels like they can keep going. Whether your child tells you directly that they have thoughts of suicide, or you find out in another way, it is heartbreaking and instantly makes us panic. I want to focus this blog […]
What are Values and Why Do They Matter in the Treatment of Mental Health?
Let’s start with the first question related to what are values? When I am doing therapy with someone, I define values as those things that are important to us that we cannot necessarily buy. This could include the way we treat others, and the way we expect others to treat us. Some examples could be […]
Supporting a Child with ADHD
Many parents struggle when supporting a child or youth who has been diagnosed with ADHD. This specific topic is special to my heart due to being diagnosed with ADHD at age 9. I was blessed to have appropriate support and accommodations put in place to help me feel successful. I wanted to spend some time […]
Tips for Coping With Anxiety
Anxiety is a universal emotion that is common in many different types of species. For humans, we have a part of our brain that is designed to protect us from life-threatening situations and this part usually responds by putting us into the fight, flight, or freeze mode. As our world has evolved, humans have been […]
