Healing Solutions Professional Counselling Services

06/10/2026

June is men’s mental health month.

06/10/2026

Great IG account based out of Toronto:

06/10/2026

So true:

Your body knows before your mind catches up. And it's been trying to tell you something.That low-grade dread before seeing certain people. 👇

The tension that settles in your shoulders during certain conversations. The exhaustion after spending time with someone that a full night of sleep doesn't quite fix. That's not anxiety. That's your nervous system giving you accurate information.

When your mind overrides that signal, out of guilt, obligation, history, or the fear of being seen as difficult, your body pays the cost. Chronic relational stress raises cortisol levels, suppresses immune function, and keeps your nervous system locked in a low-level threat state. Over time, that's not just emotional wear. It becomes physical.

You were never meant to white-knuckle your way through connection. Real connection regulates your nervous system. It doesn't chronically dysregulate it.Some relationships have a season. Some have already ended and are just waiting for you to acknowledge it. Honoring that isn't cold. It's one of the kindest things you can do for your own health, and honestly, for theirs too.Your body wasn't overreacting. It was protecting you. It still is.

Send this to someone who needed permission to listen to themselves today. 🧠

05/07/2026

12 signs of emotional intelligence in action:

04/28/2026

04/24/2026

Good therapy is based on the quality of the relationship between the client and the therapist. 

04/23/2026

I do a lot of Attachment-focused EMDR  with my clients which heals childhood wounds - or we could call it healing developmental deficits.

We talk about what a person should have gotten in childhood from their parents simply because they were born. I also call it “filling in the gaps” of what a person’s parents weren’t able to give them.

This allows my clients to anchor into their nervous systems more the positive things that childhood should have provided. Using EMDR, we can really anchor those ideas in.

I often compare it to baby cubs in the wilderness deserving of mama bear treating them the way mama bear should simply because the cubs were born -  they don’t have to earn her love.

The result of doing this work with EMDR is that a person can deep-down ultimately feel like they have a knowing that they were deserving of being treated better (as all children are deserving of having the best of everything from their parents when they’re born).

This then helps the person’s relationship with themselves greatly improve.

And I see this as the ultimate work of why we do therapy - to develop a good relationship with self. 

04/15/2026

Arguments are really about trust.