Mike Ross Counselling

Mike Ross Counselling I work with individuals, couples, and families who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected. You’re welcome to reach out.

My approach is relational and grounded, helping people find steady ground again.

06/17/2026

I came across this today and found myself thinking about it long after I watched it.
We often assume our struggles are unique, but sometimes hearing someone put words to a common human experience can be incredibly powerful.
What do you hear in this?

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DJVX2wufG/?mibextid=wwXIfr

06/13/2026

I love my job!

06/01/2026

Still can't believe this is where I get to work most days.

05/24/2026

One of the strangest parts of being human is how normal our coping mechanisms feel to us.

Meanwhile someone else is looking at us like:
“…friend, that cannot possibly be healthy.” 😄

05/20/2026

It’s strange the things I apologize for sometimes.

Taking too long to answer a question.
Not knowing how to explain what I’m feeling.
Needing a minute to think.
Talking too much.
Not talking enough.

Like somewhere along the way I learned I was supposed to be easy to deal with all the time.

No wonder I’m so tired.

Can anyone else relate?

05/18/2026

Why do we do this to ourselves?

We’ll be completely exhausted… mentally, emotionally, physically… and still somehow convince ourselves we have no right to feel exhausted because “other people have it worse.”

Meanwhile we’re trying to hold together marriages, raise kids, pay bills, look after aging parents, survive work stress, keep up appearances, answer messages, carry grief quietly, worry about money, and somehow still be a functional human being through all of it.

With all life throws at us, it's little wonder we’re irritable, numb, anxious, disconnected, or feel like we’ve got nothing left to give.

Most of us would show compassion to another person in that situation almost immediately.

So why do we struggle to offer that same compassion to ourselves?

05/14/2026

Weird thing about counselling…

Most of the time people come in thinking the problem is one thing, and it turns out the real issue is sitting three layers underneath it wearing a fake moustache.

People come in talking about anxiety, anger, burnout, relationship problems, feeling stuck… all kinds of stuff.

And sometimes that IS the problem.

But a lot of the time it’s more like pulling on a loose thread and suddenly realizing the sweater’s been coming apart for years.

A person can spend so long surviving that they don’t even realize some of the things they do are survival strategies anymore.

The shutting down.
The overthinking.
Always staying busy.
Pushing people away before they can leave first.

Most people don’t walk around with neat little insight into why they do what they do.

They just know they’re tired.
Or angry.
Or disconnected.
Or feel like they’ve somehow become a stranger to themselves.

And somewhere underneath all of that… there’s a person with a story.

Getting to know that story is probably my favourite part of “humaning”… in or out of therapy.

05/09/2026

I’ve spent a lot of my life being who I felt I needed to be depending on the situation.

Different roles.
Different masks.
Different ways of surviving, belonging, coping, or feeling accepted.

And honestly, that worked for a long time.

Until it didn’t.

A lot of the work I do now, both personally and professionally, revolves around helping people explore those patterns honestly and compassionately instead of simply fighting against them.

Lately, I feel like healing has less to do with “trying harder” and more to do with learning how to live honestly and wholly.

And that God’s grace is what makes that honesty possible.

04/29/2026

I hear this more often than people might think.

“I’m hurting. I’m lonely. I believe Jesus is enough… He’s all I need. I want to trust. I want to change. But my faith never seems to be enough.”

That’s a hard place to admit. Especially when you feel like you’re supposed to have it figured out.

Sometimes hope feels like it’s right there… but just out of reach.

You’re not the only one who feels this way.

What if we’re not supposed to fight that tension? What if we’re meant to walk through it together?

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