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Preparing for Online Counselling
Virtual counselling uses secure and user friendly technology to create major shifts in clients’ emotional health. It has been successfully utilized by many and now you can ensure your safety and continue your counselling from the comfort of your own home.
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What is Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)?
Cognitive-behavioral therapy emphasizes thinking in how we feel about what we do. In short, our thoughts play a key role in influencing what we feel and do. CBT is considered to be a shorter term, and therefore more cost-effective therapy that has been well supported in the research.
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What is EMDR?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that was originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories (Shapiro, 1989a, 1989b). EMDR is a transformative process that brings old negative and distressing memories to neutral ground.
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Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a system of therapy originally designed by Marsha M. Lindehan, a psychology researcher at the University of Washington, designed to treat people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
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What is EFT?
Emotional Focused Therapy (EFT) is a short term (8-20 sessions), structured approach to couples therapy formulated in the early 80′s by Drs. Sue Johnson and Les Greenberg. EFT is also used with families. A substantial Healthy Body of research outlining the effectiveness of EFT now exists.
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What is Bowen Family System?
Bowen family systems theory is a theory of human behavior that views the family as an emotional system where members are emotionally interdependent.
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Understanding Anxiety from the Inside Out: Calming the Nervous System for Greater Resilience – The Vegas Nerve
With over two decades of experience supporting clients through anxiety, I’ve come to understand both the complexity and the hope that comes with navigating anxious states.
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Parenting- 8 Tips to Manage Your Stress!
Parenting can be challenging at the best of times and now, many parents are finding themselves at home, working remotely and attempting to parent and school their children all at the same time!
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Voo Breathing: A Quick Guide to Managing Anxiety
Have you ever heard of Voo Breathing? Neither had I, until I came across Dr. Peter Levine’s Voo Breathing. Dr. Levine is a world-renowned industry leader in the study and treatment of trauma.
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How Anxiety Can Affect Your Relationships
Let’s get this straight: Anxiety is normal. It’s healthy. It makes us aware of danger, heightens concerns, and boosts our response to keep us safe. But while anxiety is natural, how you respond to it can become problematic within your relationships, intimate and otherwise.
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Mindfulness & Anxiety
Understanding Anxiety from the Inside Out: Calming the Nervous System for Greater Resilience – The Vegas Nerve
With over two decades of experience supporting clients through anxiety, I’ve come to understand both the complexity and the hope that comes with navigating anxious states.
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3 ways to Quiet Calm Amygdala: Decrease Anxiety in Uncertain Times
Now, perhaps more than ever, we need to look after our mental health and equip ourselves with the information and strategies to manage our mood, anxiety and calm our bodies.
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5 Strategies for Anxiety Relief
Here are some tools to help manage the uncomfortable sensations and thoughts that accompany anxiety.
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7 Steps to Improve your Sleep
We all know that too often sleep either doesn’t come easily or last long enough. A recent National Sleep Foundation poll found that adults need an average of 7.5 – 8 hours of sleep a night.
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Parenting- 8 Tips to Manage Your Stress!
Parenting can be challenging at the best of times and now, many parents are finding themselves at home, working remotely and attempting to parent and school their children all at the same time!
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Voo Breathing: A Quick Guide to Managing Anxiety
Have you ever heard of Voo Breathing? Neither had I, until I came across Dr. Peter Levine’s Voo Breathing. Dr. Levine is a world-renowned industry leader in the study and treatment of trauma.
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How Anxiety Can Affect Your Relationships
Let’s get this straight: Anxiety is normal. It’s healthy. It makes us aware of danger, heightens concerns, and boosts our response to keep us safe. But while anxiety is natural, how you respond to it can become problematic within your relationships, intimate and otherwise.
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Keeping your Healthy Mind in the Right Place
Anxiety and stress are natural and healthy responses to uncertainty and perceived danger; there is no reason to be “alarmed” about feeling alarmed!
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Mindfulness: How Can It Help Me?
Cameron Gibson, part of the BCG counselling team, speaks on Youth & Mindfulness at the Hope Centre’s Mental Health Breakfast on Jan 12th. In his presentation, Cameron Gibson will explain the neuroscience behind mindfulness, and the effects of stress and the stress responses.
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Stress Out: Strategies to Move beyond Stress
Cameron Gibson is speaking at our local high schools helping youth deal with stress! Cameron has spoken about mindfulness and the strategies to move beyond stress at Carson Graham Secondary and West Vancouver Secondary School.
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5 Tips on Healthy Eating this Summer
As the weather warms, we turn our attention to being outdoors and away from the kitchen. These simple ideas will help focus your meal preparation to help keep nutrition at the forefront.
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10 Tips On Healthy Mindful Separation
You have decided to make the difficult step to separate. You’ve decided to be mindful and collaborative in your separation. Now, how do you tell your children? Here are some sound guidelines to follow when speaking with your children about your separation.
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Returning to School With Hope and a Little Dread? You’re Not Alone.
According to a 2018 American Psychological Association study, unhealthy levels of stress are on the rise and the ability of our youth to cope is declining. Close to half (42%) of our youth reported they didn’t know how to cope with their stress. And 82% cited school as their #1 stressor!
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8 tips to eliminate Emotional Eating during the holidays
Most emotional eaters dread the holiday season with its treats, food focused social events and hyper buffets. That’s because food is the socially acceptable addiction, compulsion and even obsession.
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Healthy Mindful Parent, Healthy Mindful Child?
Here are 7 tips that will help reduce the stress and set you on your path towards being the mindful, calmer parent you always imagined you’d be and can be.
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Taking Care of Your Emotional Health
It is natural to feel stress, anxiety, grief, and worry during and after a disaster. Everyone reacts differently, and your feelings will change over time. Resist the temptation to make yourself wrong for your stress.
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5 Ways To Boost Your Resiliency
To say these times are challenging is an understatement. We are facing the complexity of a pandemic, political unrest, socio-economic uncertainty, and a diverse set of other related stressors all at the same time.
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Preparing for Online Counselling
Virtual counselling uses secure and user friendly technology to create major shifts in clients’ emotional health. It has been successfully utilized by many and now you can ensure your safety and continue your counselling from the comfort of your own home.
Read More>>
Back to School Transition? Tips for you!
This new normal has parents confused as to whether this is the correct step forward for them and their family. Each family is dealing with their own response and the diversity within their own community.
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Ask Heather – Meditation
Mindfulness meditation is backed by science and it is such a great resource that is often overlooked when it comes to treating anxiety.
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Relationship
How Anxiety Can Affect Your Relationships
Let’s get this straight: Anxiety is normal. It’s healthy. It makes us aware of danger, heightens concerns, and boosts our response to keep us safe. But while anxiety is natural, how you respond to it can become problematic within your relationships, intimate and otherwise.
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Happy Relationships: Tips on Taking Care Of Your Relationship?
In our hurried lives filled with children, work, activities, and smart phones, time together requires planning. Many of the couples in counselling simply are not getting enough time together.
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8 Ways to Reconnect With Your Partner
How do we nurture our relationships and stay with our partners? After over 20 years of working with individuals and couples, I see common patterns and themes of what contributes to a relationships destruction and what fosters satisfying one.
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6 tips for taking care of your relationship
“People who work on their relationships and stay in relationships are happier”, explains Dr. Waldinger in summarizing the Harvard Study of Adult Development that followed more than 700 men from 1938 until now.
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Parenting- 8 Tips to Manage Your Stress!
Parenting can be challenging at the best of times and now, many parents are finding themselves at home, working remotely and attempting to parent and school their children all at the same time!
Read More>>
Preparing for Online Counselling
Virtual counselling uses secure and user friendly technology to create major shifts in clients’ emotional health. It has been successfully utilized by many and now you can ensure your safety and continue your counselling from the comfort of your own home.
Read More>>
Understanding Anxiety from the Inside Out: Calming the Nervous System for Greater Resilience – The Vegas Nerve
With over two decades of experience supporting clients through anxiety, I’ve come to understand both the complexity and the hope that comes with navigating anxious states.
Read More>>
Voo Breathing: A Quick Guide to Managing Anxiety
Have you ever heard of Voo Breathing? Neither had I, until I came across Dr. Peter Levine’s Voo Breathing. Dr. Levine is a world-renowned industry leader in the study and treatment of trauma.
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Together We Can Eliminate Racial Discrimination
While more research is needed about how mindfulness can reduce implicit bias over the long term, studies out of the University of Michigan show the promise of practicing mindfulness to reduce hidden assumptions and stereotypes.
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Parenting
Parenting- 8 Tips to Manage Your Stress!
Parenting can be challenging at the best of times and now, many parents are finding themselves at home, working remotely and attempting to parent and school their children all at the same time!
Read More>>
10 Tips On Healthy Mindful Separation
You have decided to make the difficult step to separate. You’ve decided to be mindful and collaborative in your separation. Now, how do you tell your children? Here are some sound guidelines to follow when speaking with your children about your separation.
Read More>>
4 Tips for parenting your child with ADHD
Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common mental health conditions in children according to Statistics Canada. It is characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, although these symptoms vary.
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Returning to School With Hope and a Little Dread? You’re Not Alone.
According to a 2018 American Psychological Association study, unhealthy levels of stress are on the rise and the ability of our youth to cope is declining. Close to half (42%) of our youth reported they didn’t know how to cope with their stress. And 82% cited school as their #1 stressor!
Read More>>
Healthy Mindful Parent, Healthy Mindful Child?
Here are 7 tips that will help reduce the stress and set you on your path towards being the mindful, calmer parent you always imagined you’d be and can be.
Read More>>
Back to School Transition? Tips for you!
This new normal has parents confused as to whether this is the correct step forward for them and their family. Each family is dealing with their own response and the diversity within their own community.
Read More>>
How Anxiety Can Affect Your Relationships
Let’s get this straight: Anxiety is normal. It’s healthy. It makes us aware of danger, heightens concerns, and boosts our response to keep us safe. But while anxiety is natural, how you respond to it can become problematic within your relationships, intimate and otherwise.
Read More>>
7 Steps to Improve your Sleep
We all know that too often sleep either doesn’t come easily or last long enough. A recent National Sleep Foundation poll found that adults need an average of 7.5 – 8 hours of sleep a night.
Read More>>
Mindfulness: How Can It Help Me?
Cameron Gibson, part of the BCG counselling team, speaks on Youth & Mindfulness at the Hope Centre’s Mental Health Breakfast on Jan 12th. In his presentation, Cameron Gibson will explain the neuroscience behind mindfulness, and the effects of stress and the stress responses.
Read More>>
Understanding Anxiety from the Inside Out: Calming the Nervous System for Greater Resilience – The Vegas Nerve
With over two decades of experience supporting clients through anxiety, I’ve come to understand both the complexity and the hope that comes with navigating anxious states.
Read More>>
8 Tips for Success With Online Learning
So you or someone you love is a student working online….at the clinic we find that students have been hit pretty hard with mental health challenges since the pandemic including increased anxiety, loneliness, and even hopelessness.
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5 Ways To Boost Your Resiliency
To say these times are challenging is an understatement. We are facing the complexity of a pandemic, political unrest, socio-economic uncertainty, and a diverse set of other related stressors all at the same time.
Read More>>
Preparing for Online Counselling
Virtual counselling uses secure and user friendly technology to create major shifts in clients’ emotional health. It has been successfully utilized by many and now you can ensure your safety and continue your counselling from the comfort of your own home.
Read More>>
Trauma
Understanding Anxiety from the Inside Out: Calming the Nervous System for Greater Resilience – The Vegas Nerve
With over two decades of experience supporting clients through anxiety, I’ve come to understand both the complexity and the hope that comes with navigating anxious states.
Read More>>
Parenting- 8 Tips to Manage Your Stress!
Parenting can be challenging at the best of times and now, many parents are finding themselves at home, working remotely and attempting to parent and school their children all at the same time!
Read More>>
Voo Breathing: A Quick Guide to Managing Anxiety
Have you ever heard of Voo Breathing? Neither had I, until I came across Dr. Peter Levine’s Voo Breathing. Dr. Levine is a world-renowned industry leader in the study and treatment of trauma.
Read More>>
How Anxiety Can Affect Your Relationships
Let’s get this straight: Anxiety is normal. It’s healthy. It makes us aware of danger, heightens concerns, and boosts our response to keep us safe. But while anxiety is natural, how you respond to it can become problematic within your relationships, intimate and otherwise.
Read More>>