First let’s tackle the term of therapy. When someone says they are seeing a therapist or are in therapy they generally mean that they are seeing someone, one to one, for sessions that involve talking about and experiencing your emotions, working through problems and getting some assistance with things that trouble you.

When you’re looking to see someone to help you, for example, manage your anxiety, or deal with the transition to motherhood, or cope with relationship difficulties, you may seek out any of these mental health professionals:

It is clear in my role as a psychotherapist, that a big aspect of my work is to guide my clients on a journey back home to themselves. To reacquaint people to themselves as they have lost this intimate connection somewhere along their way, whether through trauma, poor attachment, wounding interpersonal relationships, and/or the normal struggles of life.

In our modern world, many of us struggle with self-acceptance and self-love. We hear about it all the time, social media is plastered with reminders to “love yourself!”. Friends may remind you, after a break-up, you have to love yourself first. It’s not as easy as it sounds and a simple Instagram post admonishing you to love yourself isn’t going to help you actually love yourself…

This past weekend I was fortunate enough to attend an introductory training on Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS). It’s a style and method of psychotherapy I have immediately started applying with clients and one that feels very inspiring. I felt immediately right at home with the principles and methods. Below I hope to share some of the core insights and principles as I understand them.

Being a mom is one of the most rewarding experiences in life and one of the most challenging. From juggling the constant demands of parenting, work, household chores and relationships, us moms have a lot on our plates. With so much to do and so many competing demands, it can be super easy to put our own needs on the backburner.

I get it and I know plenty of other moms that get it too. We’ve all been there. I’m here to remind you that taking care of yourself is so crucial to your well-being AND it can actually make you a better mom. Now that’s a win-win.

Relaxation Response is the opposite of stress response. Flight, Fight, Freeze is the physiological response to a real or imagined stressor.

Conversations on Rest

“Rest is about doing or not doing something with a sole purpose of relaxing and recharging. True rest is when I am least cognitively engaged.” - Madina, Yoga Teacher

I recently completed two degrees in Psychotherapy.

Both of those trainings involved a heap of self examination and enquiry, group therapy, individual therapy and practicing to be a therapist with clients. I could not help but gain insights, new understandings, changes to how I see myself and myself in the world. I hope to share some of those here.