Living Sky Counselling & Consulting

07/06/2026

The group home industry essentially functions by commodifying childhood trauma. Rather than providing genuine healing, these facilities are often incentivized to maintain a cycle of behavioral issues to justify high daily billing rates and ongoing funding.

The child welfare economy actively sustains this model by relying on institutionalization as a default when family-based alternatives or community resources fail.

This creates a perverse financial ecosystem where the ongoing management of traumatized youth—rather than their successful rehabilitation and transition into permanent, supportive families—sustains the multi-billion dollar residential care economy. Dont be fooled in thinking the group home industry “helps” youth and children recover from trauma-the opposite is the truth…to be honest this disgusts me!!

07/03/2026

Big Pharma has heavily shaped the medical model of mental health by promoting a "chemical imbalance" narrative. This biological focus aligns mental distress with profitable, patented treatments rather than addressing root social or environmental causes.

Consequently, the industry prioritizes sales over research, driving the widespread overmedication of psychological distress to maximize global profits.

The industry's profit-driven influence on mental healthcare operates through several specific channels:Medicalization of Distress: The pharmaceutical industry has actively funded and collaborated with psychiatric organizations to expand diagnostic categories (e.g., in the DSM), successfully classifying normal human struggles as treatable medical conditions.

The Chemical Imbalance Narrative: Pharma companies heavily promoted the theory that mental disorders are purely biological. This shifted public and medical perception, making taking a pill the most logical response to psychological pain.

Marketing Dominance: Top pharmaceutical firms typically spend more on marketing and sales than on basic research and development. By directly funding medical research, continuing education, and advertising heavily to consumers, they shape prescribing habits.

Priority of Profit over Care: Because drug discovery under patent protections is highly lucrative, the commercial model incentivizes prescribing medication over less profitable, long-term psychosocial interventions.

06/29/2026

I am pleased to announce the following EMDR Basic Training I will be delivering in Regina, Sk this Fall...pls spread this to anyone who may be interested and may qualify to take the training that is intended for therapists-thank you!

06/29/2026

I am pleased to announce the following EMDR Basic Training I will be delivering in Regina, Sk this Fall...pls spread this to anyone who may be interested and may qualify to take the training that is intended for therapists-thank you!

06/28/2026

🧠 Medical Model vs. Root-Cause Healing: What’s the difference?

The traditional medical model views mental health as a chronic illness to be managed. It uses medication and talk therapy to balance brain chemicals and reduce symptoms over time. It’s about management.
But approaches like EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) view struggles as injuries that can be healed.
Here is how EMDR actually changes the brain:

* The Goal: It targets the root cause of trauma to eliminate the disorder, not just manage it.
* The Process: Bilateral stimulation (like eye movements or taps) activates both sides of the brain.
* The Brain Shift: It physically moves painful memories out of the emotional survival center (the amygdala) and into the logical memory center (the cortex).

Once the memory is properly stored, the brain heals itself and the emotional trigger disappears. 🔄

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04/06/2026

The medical model of mental health services operates on the premise that psychological distress is primarily a biological phenomenon, viewing mental disorders as physical brain diseases caused by chemical imbalances or genetic abnormalities. This framework prioritizes clinical diagnosis and pharmacological interventions, often treating symptoms like anxiety or depression as malfunctions to be corrected with medication. Critics argue that this dominant model has been significantly bolstered by the influence of "Big Pharma," which benefits from a treatment paradigm centered on pills rather than long-term psychotherapy. The industry’s focus on the medical model is intrinsically linked to its immense profitability; for instance, antidepressants alone have generated over $14 billion in global sales annually. To maintain and expand these "multi-billion-dollar global markets," pharmaceutical companies heavily fund research, clinical trials, and even the development of diagnostic manuals like the DSM, where over half of the task force members have reported financial ties to the industry. This symbiotic relationship has led to the "medicalization of emotions," where normal human experiences are reframed as illnesses to broaden the consumer base for profitable psychotropic drugs.

10/11/2024

October 2024 marks the 10 year anniversary of Living Sky Counselling & Consulting Inc. A lot has changed over the past ten years including having received extensive clinical training in a variety of areas-this has allowed the development of clincial expertise in the area of trauma-in fact I am the only Approved EMDR Consultant in the province of Saskatchewan and am in the process of becoming an approved EMDR trainer and J believe there are only around 20 EMDR trainers in Canada-I also integrate the neurosciences as an NMT “brain mapping” practitioner with EMDR Therapy-while this sounds impressive I am constantly being taught by the people I serve in my practice-growth never stops and is never linear and never without some level of discomfort-I look forward to another 10 years and continue to strive to be a leader in trauma therapeutics in the land of living skies……

10/14/2022

We offer EMDR at Living Sky Counselling and consulting with a team of certified EMDR therapists and the only Approved EMDR Consultant in Saskatchewan…!!!

Learn about how EMDR therapy works, what it is like, and how widely it is recognized. EMDR therapists discuss how EMDR therapy works and discuss the feedback...

10/05/2022

Living Sky Counselling & Consulting Inc, Registered Social Worker, Regina, SK, S4T, (306) 400-5614, Seeking therapy is an individual choice and there are many reasons why people come to therapy. Sometimes it is to deal with long-standing emotional issues, or problems with anxiety or depression. Othe...