Therapy

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.

Anxiety often arrives in the body before it arrives in words: tight chest, racing thoughts, thin sleep, a gut that won't settle. A Vancouver psychotherapist on what is actually happening when worry won't stop, and what a body-first approach to anxiety therapy can hold.

Internalized shame tells you something is fundamentally wrong with who you are. This post explores what that experience actually is, where it comes from, and how relational, experiential therapy creates the conditions for something to shift.

Some of us learned to scan, anticipate, and serve before we ever learned to want. A Vancouver psychotherapist on the difference between people-pleasing and fawning, the body cost of always being the helper, and what gentle, parts-based therapy can hold when the body wants rest.

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.

Social anxiety often starts with connection that's felt costly. This post explores what's underneath that fear, and what relational therapy offers that other approaches sometimes can't. Vancouver-based, online across Canada.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What TIST is, how it differs from IFS, who it is for, and why it reaches clients who have been told they are untreatable. Written by a Senior Facilitator of TIST chosen by Dr. Janina Fisher to help train and certify practitioners.

Up to 40 per cent of people with depression do not respond to standard treatments. For many, the depression is a trauma response, and standard care was never designed to reach that layer. What that looks like, and what helps, from a senior facilitator of TIST.

Chronic pain is often a learned pattern in the nervous system, not a signal that something is currently damaged. The research has shifted substantially in the last several years, and therapeutic approaches now reach what medical care cannot.