Michael Kluba - Integrative Virtual Therapy Counselling + Assessments

Michael Kluba - Integrative Virtual Therapy Counselling + Assessments I help adults recover from trauma, addiction + intimacy disorders.

https://klubatherapy.ca

IG: .and.addiction.therapist

(Posts are automatically posted to FB from IG, where I’m more active on social media.)

🪻Safety requires consistency. ID: Series of five. Background is riverbank covered in treats, a river, more green space, ...
08/05/2026

🪻Safety requires consistency.

ID: Series of five. Background is riverbank covered in treats, a river, more green space, tall city buildings. Quote text and Instagram handle are in a sans serif font called Glacial Indifference. My name is in a script font called Amsterdam Four.

🌲Dr. Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté (2022) defined healing as, “nothing more or less than a natural movement toward wholenes...
07/30/2026

🌲Dr. Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté (2022) defined healing as, “nothing more or less than a natural movement toward wholeness” (p. 361). Healing is not, “the end state of being completely whole… It is a direction, not a destination; a line on a map, not a dot” (p. 361).

🌱Our humanness comes with adversity and pain, and our history shapes our present and future. Our present influences our future.

🌼Recovery and healing are an ongoing practice that evolves, where we can overcome, succeed, fail, and experience good and bad, things that are exciting and dull, and followed with more things we can work through, work on, or work to maintain.

🪻But with our ongoing practice, we work through things with new tools and various versions of ourselves to make room for new versions to come.

🌺And sometimes the work is the beauty of the present, situated in pain from the past.

ID: Top edge is a horizontal line in the Disability Pride colours. The centre is the quote in a sans-serif font called Glacial Indifference. Bottom left is the Like (heart), Comment (speech bubble), Save (bookmark), Share (paper airplane) graphics, aligned horizontally, in BIPOC diversity colours. Along the top edge of the graphics is a horizontal line in the Trans Pride colours. Along the bottom edge of the graphics is a horizontal line in the 2SLGBTQ+ Pride colours. On the bottom right is my Instagram handle in a small, sans-serif font called Glacial Indifference, and directly below is my name in a script font called Amsterdam Four.

🪻We simply cannot please everyone all the time.🌻Trying to do so often leads to displeasing, or disorientating, ourselves...
07/29/2026

🪻We simply cannot please everyone all the time.

🌻Trying to do so often leads to displeasing, or disorientating, ourselves.

ID: Top edge is a horizontal line in the Disability Pride colours. The centre is the quote in a sans-serif font called Glacial Indifference. Bottom left is the Like (heart), Comment (speech bubble), Save (bookmark), Share (paper airplane) graphics, aligned horizontally, in BIPOC diversity colours. Along the top edge of the graphics is a horizontal line in the Trans Pride colours. Along the bottom edge of the graphics is a horizontal line in the 2SLGBTQ+ Pride colours. On the bottom right is my Instagram handle in a small, sans-serif font called Glacial Indifference, and directly below is my name in a script font called Amsterdam Four.

🌲The anticipation of this emergence is one of the most common barriers to telling one’s own truth.ID: Top edge is a hori...
07/26/2026

🌲The anticipation of this emergence is one of the most common barriers to telling one’s own truth.

ID: Top edge is a horizontal line in the Disability Pride colours. The centre is the quote in a sans-serif font called Glacial Indifference. Bottom left is the Like (heart), Comment (speech bubble), Save (bookmark), Share (paper airplane) graphics, aligned horizontally, in BIPOC diversity colours. Along the top edge of the graphics is a horizontal line in the Trans Pride colours. Along the bottom edge of the graphics is a horizontal line in the 2SLGBTQ+ Pride colours. On the bottom right is my Instagram handle in a small, sans-serif font called Glacial Indifference, and directly below is my name in a script font called Amsterdam Four.

🌻Our social engagement system is a neurobiological network that uses facial expressions, eye contact, and voice intonati...
07/25/2026

🌻Our social engagement system is a neurobiological network that uses facial expressions, eye contact, and voice intonation to feel safe, calm, and connected within interpersonal relationships.

🌲In the context of parent-child relationships, children depend on parents to provide this sense of safety and connection.

🪻But, when enmeshment is present, the parent often relies on their child for this, and the child is left to adaptively shut this part of themselves down to - essentially - parent the parent.

ID: Top edge is a horizontal line in the Disability Pride colours. The centre is the quote in a sans-serif font called Glacial Indifference. Bottom left is the Like (heart), Comment (speech bubble), Save (bookmark), Share (paper airplane) graphics, aligned horizontally, in BIPOC diversity colours. Along the top edge of the graphics is a horizontal line in the Trans Pride colours. Along the bottom edge of the graphics is a horizontal line in the 2SLGBTQ+ Pride colours. On the bottom right is my Instagram handle in a small, sans-serif font called Glacial Indifference, and directly below is my name in a script font called Amsterdam Four.

🪻Essentially, the message behind their “go to your room,” ignoring, ghosting, or outburst is often something like…➡️”I d...
07/21/2026

🪻Essentially, the message behind their “go to your room,” ignoring, ghosting, or outburst is often something like…

➡️”I don’t like how your acknowledgment of your emotions is making me feel. Shut your emotions down, or feel them elsewhere, so I don’t feel this way.”

ID: Series with two slides. Top edge of each is a horizontal line with six colours in the Disability Pride colours. The centre of each is the quote in a sans-serif font called Glacial Indifference. Bottom left of each are the Like (heart), Comment (speech bubble), Save (bookmark), Share (paper airplane) graphics, aligned horizontally, in BIPOC diversity colours. Along the top edge of the graphics is a horizontal line in the Trans Pride colours. Along the bottom edge of the graphics is a horizontal line in the 2SLGBTQ+ Pride colours. On the bottom right of each is my Instagram handle in a small, sans-serif font called Glacial Indifference, and directly below is my name in a script font called Amsterdam Four. Right arrow after quote on first slide. Down arrow after it says see caption on second slide.

🌱Chronic freeze, sometimes called functional freeze, is common for those who experienced childhood trauma, overworking, ...
07/21/2026

🌱Chronic freeze, sometimes called functional freeze, is common for those who experienced childhood trauma, overworking, compulsive behaviours, and substance use, to name a few.

🌲It’s often an adaptive response to adversity.

ID: Series of 11 posts. Each have a background photo of somewhere in Saskatoon outdoors; a horizontal line in the Disability Pride colours at the top; the Like (heart), Comment (speech bubble), Save (bookmark), Share (paper airplane) graphics at the bottom left in BIPOC colours with a horizontal line in Trans Pride colours along top and horizontal line in 2SLGBTQ+ Pride colours along bottom; Instagram handle in plain sans-serif font at bottom right with name in script below. 1. Trees, river, downtown Saskatoon. 2. Trees, river, University Bridge, downtown Saskatoon. 3. Trees on left half, River, Bessborough Hotel in distance. 4. Grass and trees, University Bridge, river, the sun. 5. Shrubs, pathway, rock wall, grass, trees. 6. Clock Tower and Bessborough Hotel. 7. Looking towards the sky up at the Bessborough Hotel. 8. Brick wall, trees, sidewalk, trees, road. 9. Kiwanis Memorial Park - green space, pathways, trees. 10. Wild flowers, river, Broadway Bridge, Broadway district. 11. Grass, trees, Vimy Memorial (white concrete bandshell).

🌱This can be an incredibly difficult pattern to shift, but it can be shifted.🪻This pattern is often rooted in a history ...
07/17/2026

🌱This can be an incredibly difficult pattern to shift, but it can be shifted.

🪻This pattern is often rooted in a history of parentification of some kind, neglect, and/or a family system that was disengaged or absent.

🌾Repeat after me: Taking care of myself is not selfish. Saying no to them, and yes to me, gets to be a priority sometimes.

ID: Background is my sitting in a chair, looking at camera, with serious look. I’m wearing glasses and a t-shirt. Top edge is a horizontal line with disability pride colours. Top, right corner is the quote in a sans-serif font, Glacial Indifference, with a background with rounded corners. Bottom left are the Like (heart), Comment (speech bubble), Save (bookmark), Share (paper airplane) graphics, aligned horizontally, in BIPOC diversity colours. Along the top edge of the graphics is a horizontal line in the Trans Pride colours. Along the bottom edge of the graphics is a horizontal line in the 2SLGBTQ+ Pride colours. On the bottom right is my Instagram handle in a small, sans-serif font, Glacial Indifference. Directly below is my name in a script font, Amsterdam Four.

🌱This was likely an unconscious adaptation to cope and survive, growing up.🌸And what folks often don’t recognize is that...
07/16/2026

🌱This was likely an unconscious adaptation to cope and survive, growing up.

🌸And what folks often don’t recognize is that, over time - and through over-giving - you’re also rejecting any opportunity for others to do for you what you’re longing for to begin with.

🌲That’s to be cared for, nurtured, supported, and seen.

🌻Because oftentimes, over-giving is accompanied with a pattern of isolating in times you need support, adapting to stress, life, and adversity through figuring it out on your own, and coping through compartmentalizing your own stuff in service of other people.

ID: Top edge is a horizontal line with six colours in the disability pride colours. The centre is the quote in a sans-serif font called Glacial Indifference. Bottom left are the Like (heart), Comment (speech bubble), Save (bookmark), Share (paper airplane) graphics, aligned horizontally, in BIPOC diversity colours. Along the top edge of the graphics is a horizontal line in the Trans Pride colours. Along the bottom edge of the graphics is a horizontal line in the 2SLGBTQ+ Pride colours. On the bottom right is my Instagram handle in a small, sans-serif font called Glacial Indifference, and directly below is my name in a script font called Amsterdam Four.

🪻We receive a huge release of dopamine in the pursuit of a substance, a partner, the product, the meal, the control, the...
07/13/2026

🪻We receive a huge release of dopamine in the pursuit of a substance, a partner, the product, the meal, the control, the win, etc.

🌾This is, in part, why the use or the behaviour is often less satisfying - or pleasurable - than the pursuit of the substance or behaviour.

ID: Top edge is a horizontal line with six colours in the disability pride colours. The centre is the quote in a sans-serif font called Glacial Indifference. Bottom left are the Like (heart), Comment (speech bubble), Save (bookmark), Share (paper airplane) graphics, aligned horizontally, in BIPOC diversity colours. Along the top edge of the graphics is a horizontal line in the Trans Pride colours. Along the bottom edge of the graphics is a horizontal line in the 2SLGBTQ+ Pride colours. On the bottom right is my Instagram handle in a small, sans-serif font called Glacial Indifference, and directly below is my name in a script font called Amsterdam Four.

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