Blog

Together in Practice

This Is How We Show Up

This weekly therapist blog is where we share our experiences of attuning to the work and to each other, as we journey through the living practices of therapy, mentorship, and community. You’ll find notes on the questions we’re grappling with, the collaborations we’re fostering, and the insights that inform our conversations with clients, colleagues, and communities. This is your invitation to stay with what emerges, together.

Clayre Sessoms Image Hero Blog Page

Featured Articles

Link to Resource
Queer partners with foreheads together by the ocean at dusk.
Link to Resource
 An adult sitting quietly among wildflowers, grieving the loss of parental attunement and considering grief therapy in Canada.
Link to Resource
Person standing quietly on a rocky coastline at dusk, looking out over the horizon as the sky darkens, reflecting contemplation and uncertainty about the future.

All Articles

Link to Resource
Queer partners with foreheads together by the ocean at dusk.
Link to Blog Post

Finding a Relationship Therapist for Queer and Nontraditional Relationships

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.
Link to Resource
 An adult sitting quietly among wildflowers, grieving the loss of parental attunement and considering grief therapy in Canada.
Link to Blog Post

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.
Link to Resource
Person standing quietly on a rocky coastline at dusk, looking out over the horizon as the sky darkens, reflecting contemplation and uncertainty about the future.
Link to Blog Post

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.
Link to Resource
Person sitting quietly under a large tree with soft natural light, reflecting thoughtfully, representing compassionate self-understanding and emotional growth.
Link to Blog Post

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.
Link to Resource
Person resting during psychedelic integration therapy with Laura Hoge, RSW
Link to Blog Post

Why Psychedelic Therapy Experiences Need Careful Integration and Support

A powerful psychedelic experience does not automatically lead to healing. Integration therapy helps translate insight into grounded, lasting change through nervous system support and thoughtful meaning-making.
Link to Resource
Two people sit and think about
Link to Blog Post

Where We Begin: Relational Healing in a Time of Reckoning

A grounded beginning for anyone living through burnout, grief, disconnection, or political strain, and longing for steady relationship, honest care, and a place to begin again.
Link to Resource
Therapist and client in session, supporting the relationship with yourself and relational healing.
Link to Blog Post

The Revolution Begins Within: Relationship with Self and Others

Relational healing begins within. This reflection uses Andor (Gilroy, 2022–present) to explore rupture, repair, and nervous system truth, and how knowing yourself first helps you show up in relationships with more steadiness, honesty, and care.
Link to Resource
LGBTQ-affirming Peer Consultation image of hands clasped together
Link to Blog Post

LGBTQ-Affirming Peer Consultation: Mentorship for Therapists Supporting Trans and Queer Clients

Between Laura Hoge, LCSW, LICSW, RSW and me, we’ve spent nearly two decades providing gender-affirming and LGBTQ-affirming care. We are both deeply rooted in queer community.
Link to Resource
Supporting your transgender child with parent coaching image of a parent and two kids
Link to Blog Post

Supporting Your Transgender Child in a Time of Fear, Change, and Uncertainty

If your child just came out as transgender or gender diverse, you might be feeling like the ground beneath your feet has suddenly shifted. Whether this news came as a total surprise or something you sensed for a long time, it’s normal to feel disoriented.
Link to Resource
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy peer consultation image of trees in a forest
Link to Blog Post

SP-Informed Supervision and Peer Consultation: Mentorship for Therapists Exploring This Somatic Approach

We came to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® (SP) — developed by Dr. Pat Ogden and the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI) — the way we’ve come to much of our work: together.
Link to Resource
Two adult therapists seated outdoors in conversation, holding a warm, attentive posture in a quiet setting.
Link to Blog Post

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.
Link to Resource
LGBTQ-affirming clinical supervision for therapists image of a person on their laptop
Link to Blog Post

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.
Link to Resource
An image of a boundaries and burnout therapist on the North Shore, sitting and meditating by the water and facing the city of Vancouver skyline.
Link to Blog Post

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.