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Technology: the easy scapegoat

21st October 2015

| Categories: attitudes, Counselling & Psychotherapy in Canada, Digital Technology, Parenting, Children and the Classroom, Private Practice, Sherry Law, short attention span, Students, technology

Recently, technology and its effect on the human attention span has become a growing topic of discussion. When people develop issues which may include a technology element, there are often quick judgements and a cursory analysis typically highlight technology as the main culprit. All the while technology has become an increasingly irremovable part of our […]

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Do You Help People Heal From Traumatic Events?

14th May 2015

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| Categories: counselling, Creative Arts, creative play, healing, Lisa Shouldice, psychotherapy, sandplay, trauma, Trauma Counselling

My work as a therapist has included working with clients that are present with abuse histories, and often complex trauma. I find this can take years to heal and is hard emotionally and spiritually on both the client and the psychotherapist. So enter my training in Sandtray therapy! Sandplay is a wonderful technique that taps […]

Adult Bullying: Under the Bully’s Influence

13th May 2015

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| Categories: bullying, confusion, counselling, fear, isolation, Jonathan Delisle, Marie-France Hirigoyen, Parenting, Children and the Classroom, psychotherapy, Relationships, Marriage, and the Family, self-doubt, stress, victim

This blog post on bullying has to do with the short-term effects that bullying has on the victims while under the bully’s influence. The points I will be explaining are taken from Marie-France Hirigoyen’s book “Le harcèlement moral: la violence perverse au quotidien”. Although the points are mainly hers, I will be explaining them in […]

Outlander

13th May 2015

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| Categories: blog, Bonney Elliott, counselling, Creative Arts, Haiti, outlander, psychotherapy, therapeutic writing

In 2013, I spend two weeks volunteering in Haiti. A colleague suggests writing a travel blog. Writing is not new to me. I have been an intermittent scribbler of poetry, short stories and personal journaling since childhood. Writing a blog is new to me. Intriguing, but fraught with some trepidation about publishing first-person reflections. Having […]

The Map and the Compass: Creating a New Dream

12th May 2015

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| Categories: Career Counselling, career transition, compass, counselling, decision-making, map, mid-career shifts, psychotherapy, Sally Halliday, Shifting Sands, Steve O'Donahue

“What did you dream about doing when you were a child?” When someone asked you “what do you want to be when you grow up?” what did you say? As a career counsellor, I often want to ask this question to new clients, as a way to get them telling a story that is easy […]

Students in a Supporting Role

11th May 2015

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| Categories: adolescence, Asperger’s Syndrome, counselling, Mike Peirce, peer resources network, peers, psychotherapy, resource, school, structure, Students, Support

A number of years ago I conducted a student health and lifestyle survey in my school to consider the effectiveness of our student support resources. What we discovered won’t surprise many but it was still an eye opener. In spite of having access to trained counsellors, health professionals and supportive teachers, our students turned to […]

Confessions of a New Private Practitioner

11th May 2015

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| Categories: Angela Herzog, bloom, counselling, Embodied Healing Counselling Services, growth, new business, Private Practice, psychotherapy, solid foundation, spring

Full of anticipation and excitement, I clicked the submit button to register my business. It was official. I now was the sole owner of Embodied Healing Counselling Services. It had been quite a journey to get to this point and my whole body felt alive with the passion and confidence to begin private practice. That […]

Quality Assurance in Psychotherapy

8th May 2015

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| Categories: cognitive-behavioral, college, counselling, CRPO, ontario, psychotherapy, quality assurance, regulation, The State of the State, Trudi Strasberg

Perhaps you have noticed the many ads lining Toronto’s TTC subways recently, asking “Do you know a psychotherapist?”? (1) Indeed, there has been much ado about psychotherapy in Ontario lately, especially related to the province’s new College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO), established on April 1, 2015, under two provincial Acts (2). CRPO’s mandate […]

Five Ways to Listen and Learn When You Hear a Career Story

8th May 2015

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| Categories: career, Career Counselling, counselling, learn, listen, Mark Franklin, psychotherapy, story

You can gain so much by hearing other people’s career stories, but you have to listen carefully and in special ways. After interviewing over 300 guests on Career Buzz, and hearing thousands more stories in our CareerCycles practice, I’d like to share these five ways to listen and learn, next time you hear a career […]

Making the Time for Yourself

7th May 2015

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| Categories: counselling, guidance counsellor, Jennifer Morrison, psychotherapy, School Counselling, self-care, Self-Care for Counsellors, time

I am sitting here at my desk thinking about how excited I am about getting the opportunity to write for Counselling Connect. It is something I have wanted to do for some time and only now am I finding the time to get to it. Perhaps finding the time is not the correct term to […]