Dear Clients and Readers, It has been a little while since I last connected with you through this channel. As many of you know, I have had my hands full opening our very own trauma-focused clinic. The final touches are being added, and we are bringing together a team of incredibly skilled, warm-hearted clinicians. It has truly been a labour of love, and I hope many of you will enjoy the space as much as I have enjoyed creating it. Over the last few months, I have had a number of small...

Dear Clients and Readers, I have been thinking about a pattern I see often in my work with couples. Those who struggle most in their relationships are not always the ones who fight too much. Sometimes they are the ones who cannot seem to let their partner’s perspective in. In other words, they refuse to be influenced. There is research on this. The Gottmans found that couples where one partner consistently refuses to be influenced by the other have an 81 per cent chance of divorce. When I...

Dear Clients, I have been reflecting lately on how grief can paradoxically awaken us to life. In both individual therapy and couples...