Healing Waves Psychotherapy

08/11/2026

🌿 Vacation Closure & New Client Waitlist Update 🌿
Healing Waves Psychotherapy will be taking some time away for vacation.

As we prepare for the upcoming weeks, please note the current wait times for new clients:
🏡 In-Person Services: New clients are currently waitlisted until approximately September 28th.
💻 Virtual Services: New clients are currently waitlisted until approximately September 14th.

If you’ve been thinking about reaching out for support and feel ready to get started, please don’t hesitate to connect with us and ask to be added to the appropriate waitlist. We’d be happy to hear from you and help you take that first step. We can also connect you to therapists who are currently accepting new clients.

Thank you for your patience, understanding, and trust in Healing Waves Psychotherapy. We look forward to connecting with you soon.

07/28/2026

Today is International Self-Care Day! 💛 ✨

Self-care can look different for everyone. It may include things that support your mental, emotional, or physical health in ways that feel manageable to you. For some, practising self-care may help with moving through challenges, building confidence and feeling more grounded.

If you’re looking to bring more self-care into your daily life, here are some ideas you can try as you think about what works best for you!

You can also visit https://kidshelpphone.ca/get-info/how-practice-self-care/ to explore more self-care resources, tips and tools that may help support your well-being.

07/07/2026

Have you and your partner tried the 6 Second Kiss 😘

06/23/2026

Couples therapy with Cassondra includes using Gottman's methods to help do conflict in the healthiest way. The goal is to repair and stay on the same team when conflict hits! Cassondra is currently accepting clients for couples work and has some in person spots open!

04/14/2026

Spring is here and what better time to feel refreshed! We have virtual openings for new clients and some in person availability waiting for you! Reach out to book your free consult and hear how we can help you with your mental health goals 🎉 🎉

01/22/2026

🌨️Winter Wellness Starts With Support🌨️

As the days continue to be darker and colder, feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression can increase. If winter has been weighing on your mental health, help is available.

We are currently accepting new clients and provide personalized, judgment-free mental health care to support you through the season and beyond. We have availability for In person and virtual care.

🌱 You deserve care, comfort, and connection—this winter and every season.

01/06/2026

A great resource for anyone experiencing or being impacted by IPV.

12/11/2025

Helpful and Healthy Tips for pushing through the winter lows ☃️

As the days grow shorter, it’s important to acknowledge how seasonal shifts can impact mental health. You’re not alone—support and understanding are key to getting through.
🔗 Learn about seasonal depression: https://hubs.ly/Q03VSCy20

11/20/2025

We all wish setting a limit looked like:
➡️ “No” → instant cooperation

But in real life?
Setting a limit is rarely a straight line — and it’s not because you’re doing it wrong.
It’s because children learn boundaries through connection, not compliance.

A realistic limit-setting moment might look like:
✔️ pushback
✔️ big feelings
✔️ validation
✔️ holding the limit
✔️ getting curious
✔️ working with your child, not against them

And eventually… cooperation arrives.

If it feels messy, emotional and repetitive — that’s parenting.
Limits stick best when they’re delivered with calm, empathy and consistency… not perfection.

✨ You’re not failing. You’re teaching.

11/13/2025

Last week, MPPs in Ontario’s legislature declared that intimate partner violence (IPV) is endemic in this province.

What does that mean?

It’s recognition, across community and party lines, that this form of gender-based violence — whether it’s by someone’s spouse, common-law partner, or during/after a dating or intimate relationship — is a deep-rooted, persistent, and widespread problem in Ontario.

IPV is real.
It’s dangerous.
It’s claiming lives — most often, women’s lives — and causing devastating impacts that echo across communities and generations.

In recent years, survivors and voices within and beyond the gender-based violence sector, including here at Interval House of Ottawa, have called for the recognition of IPV as an epidemic. More than 100 municipalities, including our own, have done exactly that, in the lead-up to last week’s official recognition of IPV as endemic in Ontario. With silence so often weaponized against survivors of violence, we are grateful that the realities of GBV are being acknowledged and spoken out loud.

At the same time, what must follow any language is action. We need urgent action, which addresses intimate partner violence as the public health and safety crisis it is, together with the focused commitment required for true systemic and cultural change.

In 2026, our shelter will have been in operation for 50 years. We still believe a safer community for women, gender-diverse people and all those impacted by gender-based violence is possible. But collaborative, transformational work must be continued, at all levels of government and beyond, because the crisis of IPV does. And the ambition of that work must match the devastating realities of intimate partner violence in 2025.

With continued hope,
- Interval House of Ottawa