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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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ATR-BC and RCAT: What This Means for Art Therapy Clients and Art Therapists
What ATR-BC and RCAT mean for clients considering art therapy, and what I can offer art therapists seeking supervision or mentorship in Canada and the US.
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Neurodivergent-Affirming Therapy: How We Work Without Needing a Diagnosis
Neurodivergent-affirming therapy for adults in Canada. No diagnosis required. What matters is your interest in working relationally, experientially, and creatively, at your own pace, without being asked to perform neurotypicality.
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Work After Coming Out as Trans: What Might Be Shifting, and What Can Help
Work after coming out as trans often shifts in quiet ways. Clients drift, invitations thin, feedback gets strange. Some reflections for what's actually happening, and what might help.
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When Explaining Non-Binary Gets Tiring: On Visibility, Rest, and What Helps
Being non-binary and exhausted is a real, shared experience. The weight of constant translation, education, and being read by others has a name. Some thoughts on the tiredness, and what might help.
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Chosen Family: The Belonging You Build
Chosen family is often talked about as pure celebration. The truth is more textured. A grounded look at the grief, the care, the labour, and what helps when you're building belonging from the ground up.
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Supporting Partner Through Gender Transition: What You Might Be Carrying Too
When your partner is transitioning, love and grief can show up together. That isn't disloyalty. Some reflections for the partner who's also carrying something, and isn't sure where to put it.
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Accompanying Someone Who Is Dying: Notes from a Long Goodbye
A personal reflection on accompanying a parent through a long illness. What presence actually asks of you, what anticipatory grief feels like in the body, and what stays when words stop working.
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The Body as an Archive: Notes from a Settler Therapist's Practice
On what the body carries from ancestry and culture, and how Dr. Roger Kuhn's Somacultural Liberation has shaped one settler therapist's practice. A first-person reflection on inheritance, humility, and the limits of extracting technique from its roots.
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Therapy That Fits an Autistic Nervous System: What to Notice Going In
On finding therapy that fits an autistic nervous system. What to notice in yourself, what to ask for, and what not to override. A first-person reflection from Clayre, with a nod to Steph Jones's frank and funny Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy.
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The Quiet Part of Gender Exploration: How to Listen Before You Know
On the early, quiet part of gender exploration, before any declaration or certainty. A first-person reflection from Clayre on what to notice, how to listen, and why the question itself counts, with a nod to Oakley Phoenix's accessible companion guide The Gender Friend.
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Pleasure in a Trans Body: What Becomes Possible Beyond Survival
On gender-pleasure, intimate embodiment, and what becomes possible when a trans body is allowed to be information, not only a problem to solve. A first-person reflection from Clayre on Lucie Fielding's second edition of Trans Sex, and what feeling good can open.
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Love as a Trans or Nonbinary Adult: More Than the Scripts You Were Handed
Love as a trans or nonbinary adult rarely looks like the scripts we were handed. A gentle look at what those scripts miss, what forms of love may already be here, and what can shift when you stop trying to earn being chosen.
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Regulate, Relate, and Reason: What Helps When Words Aren't Landing
When someone is overwhelmed, reasoning doesn't land, because biology takes the thinking brain offline. A look at regulate, relate, reason: the sequence that helps, whether you're trying to reach someone you love or come back to yourself.
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Growing Up Religious and Queer: Notes on What You Might Be Carrying
Growing up religious and being queer often means carrying both in the same body. A gentle look at what was absorbed before language, what might still hold, and what softens when you stop trying to pick between them.