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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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Focusing-Oriented Therapy, Explained: Gendlin and the Body's Quiet Knowing
If you've come across the words felt sense and wondered what they actually mean, this is the long version. Where Focusing came from, what Eugene Gendlin discovered in his research, what the body's quiet knowing actually is, and why this work continues to shape psychotherapy.
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When the Hidden Version of You Starts to Cost More Than It Protects: A Note on Coming Into Yourself
Some hiding kept you safe. At some point, the cost of the hiding starts to outweigh what it was protecting. A Vancouver-based therapist's note to trans and queer readers on coming into yourself.
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Working With the Felt Sense: How Focusing Oriented Therapy Shows Up in Our Work
Focusing Oriented Therapy can be hard to picture from the outside. Here's how a Focusing turn actually unfolds in a session: the felt sense, how I listen, the small shifts that move things forward, and what becomes possible when the body has the time it needs.
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When the Body Has Been Bracing for a Long Time: What Gentle Yoga Can Open
Some bodies have been on alert for so long that the bracing feels like personality, not pattern. This post is about what chronic bracing actually is, why it doesn't just relax on command, and what becomes possible when movement is small, slow, and chosen.
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Writing Between Sessions: Journaling Can Support the Work Your Body Is Doing
Writing can be a quiet companion to therapy when it is done from a body that stays with itself. A Vancouver-based therapist on journaling between sessions, for clients.
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Reclaiming the Body After Prolonged Body Shame: A Gentle Way Home to Yourself
Reclaiming your body after years of body shame is not a project or a plan. It is a slow turning toward what was always yours. A Vancouver-based therapist on the rupture, the reckoning, and the reclamation.
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When Self-Care Feels Out of Reach: Self-Compassion for Trans Adults Who Are Tired
You are not failing at self-care. The world is hard, and that is not your fault. A Vancouver-based therapist on self-compassion for trans people who are carrying a lot.
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Neglect in Adult Life: When Nothing Happened, and Yet Something Did
Emotional neglect is what was missing, not what happened. A careful look at what this kind of early experience leaves behind in adult life, why the grief can be hard to name, and why the therapy for it often needs to go slowly on purpose.
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When Your Child Comes Out as Trans: What Shifts in the Family, and Who Stays Close
When your child comes out as trans, the family changes shape. A Vancouver-based therapist on what shifts at home and in extended family, and how to keep your child at the centre of the care.
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Where Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Came From: David Emerson and a Practice Built on Choice
Trauma-sensitive yoga didn't begin as a wellness trend. It came out of a clinical question: what helps people whose trauma lives in the body in ways talk therapy hasn't reached? Here's the origin story, the research, and what makes the method distinct.
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What Relational Therapy Actually Looks Like in the Room: Five Markers to Notice
A Vancouver-based therapist on what relational therapy looks and feels like in session. Five markers from Jean Baker Miller's work to help you recognise when the work is landing.
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Check-Ins in Trans, Nonbinary, and Queer Relationships: A Practice of Staying Close
A relationship check-in is a steady practice of staying close, especially when the outside world is loud. Here's a gentle structure we return to in relationship therapy with queer and trans couples, plus one way to begin at home.
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An Intro to Experiential Psychotherapy: The Work That Begins in the Body
Experiential psychotherapy begins with what is present in the body and in the space between us, right now. An introduction to what the approach is, the lineages it comes from, and what actually happens in a session that works this way.
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Sound Baths in Vancouver: A Practice We Keep Returning to for Our Own Wellbeing
A sound bath invites the nervous system to downshift in the company of others. Here's how Laura and I first found sound in an ashram in 2005, why we keep coming back as participants, and what we're bringing to downtown Vancouver in late 2026.
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What Accessible, Affirming Care Actually Looks Like at Our Practice
Accessibility is not a claim we make once. It is something we keep working at, visibly and imperfectly. Here's what that looks like in practice, from the first email through the room itself, named in plain terms with what we offer and what we are still working on.
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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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For LGBTQ-Affirming Therapists: What Relational Supervision Can Hold for You
Relational and experiential supervision and peer consultation for therapists who work closely with LGBTQ clients, trauma survivors, and people living under systemic pressure. A collaborative space to slow down, track what is alive, and think together about the work you love.
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Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Online: How We Move Gently With What the Body Holds
Trauma-sensitive yoga in therapy isn't a yoga class on a screen. It's a slow, choice-based way of moving with what the body has been carrying, alongside someone trained to follow your lead. Here's what it actually looks like with us, online, in your own room.
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An Introduction to Relational Therapy: How Connection Itself Is the Work
Relational therapy treats the relationship between therapist and client as the primary site of change, not the setting for it. An introduction to what the approach is, where it comes from, and what becomes possible when connection itself is the work.
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Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Online: A Body-First Introduction to Our Work
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a body-first way of working with trauma, attachment, and the patterns we did not choose. A grounded introduction to what we do together in the room, written by the therapists who practice it.