Relationships

Looking for polyamory counselling online in BC? This post explores what open relationship therapy actually holds for people in CNM and polyamorous relationships, and what to look for in a therapist who gets it. Vancouver-based, online across Canada.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The weight of this kind of divorce is often bigger than the relationship itself, because identity, family, and institutions shift at once. A reflection on what often surfaces for 2STGNC+ parents in separation, and what individual therapy can and cannot hold.

The coming-out conversation asks a lot. The years that follow ask something different. A post for parents past the big moment and somewhere in the actual years of raising a trans or nonbinary teenager, with reflections shaped by Laura Hoge's work.

Jealousy in polyamorous and open relationships isn't a leftover to dissolve. It's a signal from your body. A gentle look at what your feelings might actually be saying, and what softens when you listen to them instead of managing them away.

Relationship therapy for open, CNM, and poly partners in Canada. We hold the whole configuration: partners, metamours, the structure itself. Non-monogamy isn't the problem, and we won't coach you back to monogamy.

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.

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.