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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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Why Therapists Need Therapy: Holding Space Without Losing Ourselves
Therapists carry real emotional weight. This post explores why having your own therapy can be an ethical, sustaining part of the work, and how being held helps you keep showing up with clarity, care, and integrity.
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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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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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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 Explores Gender: Affirming Support for Parents
Many kids explore gender through clothing, roles, language, and self-expression. This guide supports parents in Vancouver who want to respond with calm care, protect self-esteem, and find affirming resources without panic or overcorrecting.
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Belonging Begins Within: Finding Your Way Back After Disconnection
When belonging feels out of reach, it’s easy to assume you’re the problem. This post offers a grounded reframe: belonging is a felt experience that often begins with self-loyalty, then grows through relationships and communities that don’t require you to disappear.
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When Survival Strategies Show Up in Relationships
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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Burnout, Boundaries, and Being Human: A Practice of Care from the Inside Out
Burnout rarely arrives as collapse. It shows up in blurred boundaries, over giving, and quiet depletion. A relational reflection on staying human in caregiving roles, and building care that can actually sustain you.
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Mentorship for Therapists: Relational, Experiential, and LGBTQ-Affirming Clinical Supervision and Peer Consultation
We’ve been learning together for a long time. Since meeting as yoga students two decades ago, our work—and our friendship—has been shaped by deep practice, ongoing study, and the kind of conversations that only happen when trust runs deep.
