What is Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)?
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy teaches skills that are helpful for individuals seeking to regulate emotions, tolerate stress and communicate better.
Five Strategies to Deal with Anger in a Healthy Way
It’s normal to feel angry from time to time. But if you find that you are regularly and unusually outraged by Calgary’s rush-hour traffic, your blood boiling, it may be time to work on developing a healthier way to deal with anger.
How to Treat Seasonal Affective Disorder in Calgary Winters
If you are from Calgary, you know the winters can be long, cold and dark. While some people thrive through the winter months and enjoy the snowy winter wonderland, others struggle with their mental health and suffer from a condition called Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD.
How to Support a Partner Who Has Anxiety
If your partner suffers from an anxiety disorder, relationship challenges may become increasingly difficult to navigate. Here are a few ways you can support your partner on their journey to mental health.
What is Self-Care?
The term self-care covers quite a broad spectrum. For the purposes of this post, self-care means taking time to rejuvenate your body and mind. Self-care is especially helpful in times of high stress or high need. Busy parents are often told to incorporate self-care into their routine, for example. Like most things, self-care is highly …
Three Ways to Achieve Work Life Balance
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] In our always connected world, we are under a lot of pressure to always be “on.” With more and more of us working from home (at least some of the time), and our emails on our tablets and smartphones, the line between work life and personal life can get pretty blurry. How do …
6 Common Misconceptions about Counselling
If you’re thinking about counselling, you’re probably also thinking about some of the misconceptions that come along with it. Counsellors, like most professions, are not free from some common public pre-conceived notions about what they do and how they do it. Here are some 6 of those myths. 1) Counselling won’t help me, I didn’t …