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Insights & Resources

Explore articles written by our team on anxiety, trauma recovery, relationship health, and emotional wellbeing. Our goal is to offer grounded, practical insights that support you between sessions.

  • Parallel Parenting After Abuse: Finding Safety and Stability when Co-Parenting isn’t Accessible

  • Inner Conflict Around Substance Use: A Compassionate Understanding of the Nervous System and Protective Parts

  • April is Stress Awareness Month

  • The Silent Crisis: Why Male Loneliness Matters and What We Can Do

  • The Real Crime in Adolescence (2025)

  • The Bottom-Up Approach: How Somatic Experiencing Transforms Trauma Healing

  • Creating a Safe Space for Connection: The Foundation of Couples Counselling

  • Navigating Our Three Nervous System States: Insights from Polyvagal Theory

  • Honoring the Journey: Supporting Survivors on International Suicide Loss Day

  • Talking to Kids About Therapy: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers

  • Understanding the ABCs of ADHD: A Gestalt and Person-Centered Approach

  • Evaluating Your Relationship with Alcohol (and Substances)

  • Understanding the Power of Self-Compassion for Mental Health

  • Stress and Caregiving

  • Negative Self Talk: My Personal Journey and Therapeutic Insights

  • Caregiver Burnout

  • Things You Should Know About Child-Centered Play Therapy

  • Peer Support for Substance Use

  • Navigating Blue Monday: Overcoming Isolation and Embracing Connection during the Winter Months

  • New Year’s Resolutions: Ditch the Diet and Love Yourself

  • Exploring the Concept of Katabasis in Psychotherapy

  • Packages, Presents, and Pronouns: Challenges and Tips for Navigating the Holiday Season as a Gender Diverse Human

  • Recovery Support During The Holidays

  • Exploring Men’s Emotional Resilience: Overcoming Societal Expectations

  • Respecting Your Boundaries This Holiday Season: Managing Disordered Eating and Negative Body Image

  • Media Influence: The Price We Pay for Adhering to Societal Standards

  • Honouring the Inner Critic and Curating Self-Compassion

  • National Addictions Awareness Week

  • Understanding Male Mental Health: The Importance of Vulnerability and Therapy

  • Understanding Emotions and the Importance of Embracing Them

  • The Gift That Keeps On Giving

  • Spooktacular Halloween: Unmasking the Neurobiology of Fear

  • The Cost of Curriculum Censorship

  • Take Back The Night

  • Understanding Men’s Grief: The Journey of Processing Loss

  • Understanding Anxiety, Stress, and Their Connection to Your Nervous System

  • Navigating Stepfamily Challenges

  • Polyvagal Theory and Yoga

  • The Fear of Judgement

  • Dealing with Regret: Unlocking the Prison of the Past

  • Loneliness

  • What are emotions?

  • Male Mental Health

  • Polyvagal Theory and Trauma

  • What is the Polyvagal Theory?

  • The Right Therapist For You

  • What Being a Stepmom Taught Me…

  • New Years Resolutions

  • Grieving as a Survivor of Suicide Loss: One Year Later

  • World Mental Health Day

  • Happy Podcast Day

  • Happy Psychotherapy Day

  • Quiet Quitting and the Problem of Burnout

  • The Purpose of Grief Therapy

  • Finding Empowerment, Authenticity and Resilience

  • Let Me Introduce You To Myself And My Creatures…

  • Queer or questioning? Kemptville Stress Relief Centre launches free support group July 5

  • Moms Unscripted! Blog Series – Part 5

  • How the Stories We Tell Ourselves Shape Our Experience

  • Self Love

  • National Hugging Day

  • Blue Monday

  • The Paradox Of People Pleasing

  • Moms Unscripted! Blog Series – Part 4

  • Grieving as a Survivor of Suicide loss

  • Supporting all Genders in the Therapeutic Room

  • Moms Unscripted! Blog Series – Part 3

  • Honoring the process of Grief

  • Moms Unscripted! Blog Series – Part 2

  • Moms Unscripted! Blog Series – Part 1

  • The Trauma of Being Dismissed

  • Common Questions About Therapy

  • ‘Many years in the making’: Long-awaited sexual assault services coming to North Grenville

  • Boundary Setting During the Holiday

  • Resentment

  • Has your partner given you an ultimatum to attend therapy?

  • If you love an addict, here’s what you need to know

  • Grieving Our Way Through COVID-19

  • Will my marriage survive COVID?

  • When is a good time to be honest?

  • Nurturing your relationship during COVID

  • Are you feeling lonely?

  • Soothing your distress in times of crisis

  • Pregnant and worried in the age of COVID? Here are some tips

  • Structure not schedule: a key to staying sane with kids confined at home

  • Worried about getting sick? Here are some immune-boosting tips

  • How to talk to kids about COVID-19

  • As a man, I was taught…

  • First-ever Take Back the Night rally takes over Kemptville streets

  • Local therapist, Victim Services plead for sexual assault crisis centre in North Grenville

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    Support for women and survivors of sexual violence

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    North Grenville needs support services for victims of sexual violence