If you have never been to therapy or maybe you have been and felt it wasn’t that helpful, I have some ideas to help you get the most out of your therapy sessions. Some people believe that all you need to do to find healing is to just show up for your sessions and magically […]
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I think there are a lot of misconceptions about depression and clients struggle to understand it and implications of it. I thought just creating this blog entry to include a Q/A format might be helpful to review what are some common questions and answers. Check it out below! How do I know if I am
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Image from Unsplash Diagnosis of an incurable illness can be devastating. You likely have a lot to think about and many significant decisions to take. However, there are strategies out there that you can use to cope with emotional distress while preserving the quality of your life. Want to learn more? Path to Hope Counselling
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A common myth about therapy is that you just show up and “vent” about your problems. Venting can be helpful to release your emotions, I know I am happy to be a sounding board for people. But venting is something you do with a friend or family member when you are upset about something. Venting
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Written by Jennifer Degen, MA www.MindBodyAwareness.net We are out of touch with the core animating energy that moves through us. Richard Strozzi-Heckler As highly and wholly intelligent beings, we have so much untapped potential when we don’t recognize this. In our current culture many of us have grown up with a strong emphasis in our
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As a Therapist I am always wanting to provide the most effective and up to date treatments to help the clients I serve to find healing in a shorter amount of time. I used to provide mostly traditional talk therapy and clients found some results and healing. However there were some clients who seemed to
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The options for therapy have greatly increased in the past 10 years. There are so many more theoretical options, modalities and types of therapy out there. This can make it a bit confusing and overwhelming if you are looking for help with an issue you face. In my over 25 years of providing Counseling and
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You might be in therapy for a while and then begin to wonder is it helping? Or am I making progress at all? This can be a question that can pop up and make you wonder if it is making a difference. I find most clients I see struggle at times to see their progress
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Everybody has an inner critic. One that will chime in when you make a mistake “hey you should’ve known better” or try to over prepare you “you need to do it this way or its wrong” and sometimes it will get nasty “what an idiot you are!.” This probably sounds familiar. The majority of the
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Have you ever been around someone who is depressed and you walked away and felt depressed yourself? Or maybe you were with a friend who was highly anxious and then you felt anxious after spending time with her? Was it hard to shake it? Everything is energy and sometimes it can attach to us. I
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