Whether you’ve been to counselling before or not, going into the first session can create a lot of anxiety. You may be wondering if you are going to like your therapist or not, if you are going to have to divulge your deepest feelings right away, or how on earth you are going to fit your life story into 50 minutes.  Knowing what to expect won’t erase all your fears, but it can be helpful.  In this post, I’d like to share the things you can expect in a first session with me. I

If you’ve experienced trauma, you may not be sure about what the recovery process entails - or even be unsure if it’s possible to recover. This is understandable; posttraumatic symptoms are so overwhelming and it can feel sometimes like there is no way out from under them. Although healing from trauma is not easy, it certainly is possible. In fact, there are well-documented stages that therapists and counsellors follow to guide trauma recovery (as outlined by Dr. Pierre Janet

Anxiety is an incredibly common issue that people bring to counselling. It is so physically uncomfortable to be anxious, and sometimes it can feel like we can’t escape the feeling. And the problem is, trying to escape the feeling actually makes the anxiety worse! In this post, I will share 5 strategies for reducing anxiety. But first - in order to figure out how to work with our anxiety, it can be helpful to understand what is actually happening in our nervous system when we