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  • About Me
    • About Me
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  • What Brings You Here?
    • Your First Step Toward Counselling
  • Counselling and Psychotherapy
    • Anxiety and Stress
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Joy

The Role Joy Plays in Our Emotional and Mental Health

By Suzanne On December 19, 2017 · Add Comment · In Self-Growth, Stress Management
Since it’s the season to bring “joy to the world,” I thought this might be an appropriate occasion to ask you to consider what brings joy to you. Somebody asked me this question recently, and I had to think for a few minutes. I’d somehow forgotten that joy is something that’s not only important in [...]
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#MeToo: Add My Voice to the Cultural Ground Swell against Sexual Abuse

By Suzanne On November 15, 2017 · Add Comment · In psychotherapy, Relationships, Self-Growth
We are living in powerful times. A crucial time in the lives of those who’ve been sexually abused. For girls, boys, men, and women, it’s a long-awaited time when people are becoming empowered to speak up against the sexual abuse they’ve experienced during their lifetimes with the hope of making those who’ve perpetrated the abuse [...]
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Body Acceptance: How to Strike Up a Loving Relationship With Your Most Loyal Companion

By Suzanne On October 17, 2017 · Add Comment · In Relationships, Self-Growth
As a psychotherapist, I’m in the business of hearing how people, especially women, talk about their bodies using hateful and disparaging terms. They aren’t alone. I’ve done the same myself, and so I know how hard it can be to make peace with our imperfect bodies (are they ever anything else?) let alone feel loving [...]
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Focusing on Positivity Can (Sometimes) Drive Us “Crazy”

By Suzanne On September 20, 2017 · Add Comment · In psychotherapy, Stress Management
Sometimes I feel like complaining. About whatever. And it feels good – that is, when I’m not in the company of the kind of person we all know who see it as their job to drag us over to the “positive perspective” corner of the room. “Leave me alone. I want to feel miserable for [...]
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