JTR Counselling & Consulting

10/14/2020

Crossroads is looking for a part time receptionist!

09/25/2020

"People often don’t realize they have formed a trauma bond."

08/11/2020

A brief explanation of the trauma responses

Most of us have heard of the fight, flight and freeze responses. Do you know the fourth?

04/26/2020

Working With Collective Trauma

04/18/2020

Yes

Students, colleagues and friends:

-This is why it’s been hard to focus.
-This is why it feels like it takes you twice as long to get things done.
-This is why you’ve been consumed with ensuring that you have the right “stuff” to sustain your physiological needs.
-This is why you’ve been more irritable.
-This is why you’ve been craving connection.
-This is why you’ve been feeling overwhelmed.
-This is why you’ve been physically exhausted.
-This is why you’ve been like “Oh wait, there’s a paper due?”
-This is why the idea of planning for the future is the furthest thing from your mind right now.
-This is why you only have enough mental energy to focus on the immediate.
-This is why you’ve been instinctively prioritizing self care and family.
-This is why you’ve been grasping to control what you perceive to be controllable because so much is uncontrollable and unpredictable right now.

Students, colleagues and friends:

-This is normal.
-You are not a slacker.
-You are not “crazy” (Yeah, I know we hate that word).
-You should not compare yourself to others.
-You should not buy into the narrative that you must emerge a “better person”.
-It’s ok to not be as productive - we are experiencing trauma on a global scale.
-It’s ok to “just be” and feel the way you feel about what’s happening around you and/or to you.
-It’s ok to seek help. COVID-19 is a crisis that threatens both our physical and psychological wellness.

06/15/2019

Brooke Williams, MA, LPC reflects on how her anxiety limited her experience—and how seeing a counselor changed her perspective, and her life, for the better.

05/08/2019

I do many of these to manage my own anxious thoughts

Because even the mental health experts need a little help sometimes.

04/14/2019

One of my favourites

04/13/2019

The two-year-old group draws men from various backgrounds: a 37-year-old Mormon who works as an airport gate agent, a 57-year-old married father of three, a 62-year-old retiree.

04/08/2019

Andrew Weil demonstrates a simple breathing technique he calls "the single most powerful anti-anxiety measure I've found". We don't know anyone who wouldn't benefit from it.