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Weekly Reflections
A therapist blog with weekly posts from Vancouver-based therapists, writing online for clients and colleagues in BC and across Canada. Each week we share what we're noticing in the room, in the body, in the work itself. You'll find reflections on the questions we hold, the practices we return to, and the experiences that shape how we show up with clients, each other, and our communities. We also share updates from The Living Practice podcast. Come stay with what's emerging.
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Naming What You've Felt: Recognizing Yourself as Neurodivergent in Adulthood
Recognizing yourself as neurodivergent in adulthood often arrives as body knowing before words. A somatic psychotherapist on what late ADHD and autistic recognition can hold: the relief, the grief, and why self-identification is valid in its own right.
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Reaching for AI at 3 a.m.: A Closer Look at the Research and What's Worth Knowing
Reaching for AI at 3 a.m.? You have company. A research-informed look at how people are using AI chatbots for emotional support, what the studies keep finding, where regulation stands, and what relational therapy still holds that a language model cannot.
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When the World Feels Uncertain: Existential Therapy for Climate Anxiety
Political instability, climate crisis, and rising hostility toward marginalized communities can leave us bracing for what comes next. Existential therapy offers grounded support for meaning, responsibility, and belonging in uncertain times.
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LGBTQ-Affirming Peer Consults for Therapists When Clients Feel Uncertain
When your clients are carrying political fear, minority stress, and anticipatory grief, you may be holding more than “case material.” Peer consultation offers steadiness, ethics, and language that protects dignity
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Grief Therapy for Emotional Neglect: Grieving Parents Who Are Still Alive
Many adults carry grief for the care they never received growing up. This post explores the quiet mourning that can arise when parents remain in our lives but cannot meet us in the ways we needed.
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Supporting Your LGBTQ+ Teen in a Time of Fear, Change, and Uncertainty
When your teen comes out or begins exploring gender, you may feel fear, love, grief, and confusion at once. This post offers grounded guidance for supporting your transgender or gender-diverse teen while making room for your own questions and process.
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Why Non-Ordinary Journey Experiences Need Careful Integration and Support
A therapeutic journey does not automatically lead to healing. Post-psychedelic integration therapy helps translate insight into grounded, lasting change through nervous system support and thoughtful meaning-maki
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Where We Begin: Relational Healing in a Time of Reckoning
A relational approach to therapy offers a grounded beginning for anyone living through burnout, grief, disconnection, political strain, or struggle, and longing for steady relationships, honest care, and a place to begin again.
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Finding a Relationship Therapist for Queer and Nontraditional Relationships
Looking for a relationship therapist can feel vulnerable, especially in queer or nontraditional relationships. Here’s what to look for, what questions to ask, and how to find therapy that honours your relationship and supports repair.
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Sensorimotor Therapy Supervision and Peer Consultation for Therapists
A grounded, relational space for therapists exploring sensorimotor therapy and somatic practice. Case support, pacing, and embodied clinical decision-making, with consultation shaped by years of training, supervision, and real-world application.
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The Revolution Begins Within: Relationship with Self and Others
Relational healing begins within. This reflection uses Andor (Gilroy, 2022–present) to explore rupture, repair, and nervous system truth, and how knowing yourself first helps you show up in relationships with more steadiness, honesty, and care.
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Parts Work That Begins in the Body: A Gentle Introduction to How We Work
Parts are the different aspects within you. An introduction to embodied parts work and why slow is the point. A Vancouver-based therapist on what shifts when parts feel heard instead of managed.
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How Experiential Therapy Unfolds: A Present-Moment Way of Working
Experiential therapy isn't a procedure I run on you. It's a present-moment way of working that lets the body lead. Here's the texture of an experiential turn from inside the room: the noticing, the slowing, the small experiment, and what changes when the body has time.
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When You're Autistic and Also Exploring Gender: What Therapy Can Hold
For people who are both autistic and gender-diverse, the overlap isn't a coincidence. A Vancouver-based therapist on what gender-affirming therapy can hold when both parts of you are in the room.
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Your First Online Therapy Session: What to Expect When You Begin With Us
What the first online therapy session is actually like here: getting to know each other, talking about hopes, and what we try not to do. A Vancouver-based therapist on starting therapy with care.
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Body, Land, and Therapy: How an Ecological Lens Shows Up in Our Work
The body is not separate from where it is. A Vancouver-based therapist on how an ecological lens on body and land shows up in our practice, and in online therapy sessions across Canada.
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The Art of Gender Exploration: When You Know in Your Heart Before You Have Words
When gender feels hard to name, artmaking can offer a gentle way to listen inward. This post explores how art therapy can support adults and older teens with gender exploration online across Canada, with steadiness, consent, and care.
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Grief After the Loss of a Parent: What to Expect, and How to Move Through It
Losing a parent shifts the ground beneath you. This post explores what grief can look and feel like—emotionally, relationally, and in the body—and how steadiness begins to take shape over time.
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When Your Child Is Exploring Gender: A Steady Guide for Parents
A grounded guide for parents of gender-creative kids. What steady support looks like at home, what it doesn't need to be, and where to turn when the adult questions need their own space.
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When Something in You Asks for Focus: A Body-Wise Way of Listening
Sometimes something in you starts asking for attention without giving you words for it. This post is about that quiet edge in the body, why it tends to go unheard, and what it asks of you when you turn toward it slowly with company.
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Belonging Begins Within: Finding Your Way Back After Disconnection
Belonging is not a social status. It is the quiet experience of being able to be yourself without paying for it later. A Vancouver-based therapist on finding your way back after disconnection.
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When Your Nervous System Protects You in Love: A Gentler Way Through
The behaviours that create friction in relationships often began as ways to survive earlier life. With compassion and awareness, these strategies can be right-sized rather than erased.
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What the Body Holds: Somatic Resources in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Trauma lives below thought in tension, bracing, and disconnection. This post explores what somatic resources are, how they support nervous system regulation, and what body-based trauma therapy looks like in practice.