How Emotion Focused Therapy can help you face difficult emotions Courtney Bell, MA How often do you experience a difficult emotion and lean right into it? You are not alone if your answer is rarely, or never for that matter. Difficult emotions (sadness, fear, anger, loneliness for example) often elicit the same response as putting our hand on a hot stove top: we pull away in the opposite direction! However, what if I told you that facing and leaning into difficult emotions can bring great ...read more
Putting it into practice: a look at homework use in therapy.
Putting Therapy Into Practice A look at homework use in therapy Sara Alia, MC - Registered Provisional Psychologist, Refresh Counselling Practice makes perfect—a popular saying we hear and often use in our North American culture, also a helpful one that I find informs a critical piece of counselling. Think of a boxer who prepares for a match —he/she spend hours putting into practice the specific moves and ...read more
Advice for Transformation in the New Year
'Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right!" - Oprah Winfrey Are you one of the (less than) 10% of people who keep and accomplish your New Year's Resolutions? If you are, congratulations, you fall into the minority of Canadians who are able to do that. On the other hand, if have a little trouble keeping those resolutions, don't feel bad; you are not alone. Whether your resolution is to finally lose the weight, deal with your anxiety, learn a new language, finish that ...read more