Seahorse Counselling Blog

With Kate At different points in our lives, we may realize that something needs to change. We might not even know what feels wrong or what needs to change, but

I feel so alone!  With Brenda Ksionzyk Being alone can feel like a reprieve from the busyness of our days. It can be an active choice that offers us some

Helping Kids Trust Themselves We hear about confidence all the time, especially when we’re talking about children and young people. Be more confident. Believe in yourself. Don’t be afraid to

With Kate Pinsonneault We all have parts of us that help us in certain situations and relationships.  You may have noticed that we act differently when we’re with our mother,

With Kate Transitions are an inevitable part of life.  A graduation, a wedding, the birth of a child, a long-awaited promotion, or a planned retirement are often anticipated and celebrated.

With Karen In moments of transition, clients often arrive with the same urgent question: What Now?
What should I do next? What decision should I make? Which direction is right? Over

With Kate As we mark the longest day of the year and the official start of summer, many people are looking forward to a fun, social season.  Summer is often

With Elena Prill I find there’s something about the arrival of summer that invites us to slow down, even if only for a moment. The days stretch a little longer,

With Kate We live in a culture where productivity and achievement are expected.  Accomplishments are acknowledged, exhaustion is normalized, and “pushing through” is praised.  We tell ourselves to keep going

With Suzanna “We aren’t doomed to lives of Sisyphean servitude.” I just read an excellent article by Scott Koenig called “We’re Killing Ourselves with Work.” In it, he explores why

With Kate Early in my career, I was told that “anger is a secondary emotion and under anger is hurt and fear.” For years, I treated anger as problematic, helping

With Frances I find addiction and substance misuse counselling fascinating. A substance that affects one person one way can affect someone else differently, dependent on their genetics and family history,

With Kate Pinsonneault Anger is often regarded as a “negative emotion.”  We associate it with conflict, loss of control, and regret. Many of us are taught that it’s not ok

With Kyle Sarrasin It can take different approaches that build on one another to understand why you might experience emotions so intensely that they cause problems, and to help resolve the underlying

Releasing Trauma, Anxiety and Shame with ART (Accelerated Resolutions Therapy) With Carissa Spring cleaning for your mental health, Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a gentle, evidence-based approach that helps people

With Kate Pinsonneault If you are starting the new year with a resolution that comes with high expectations, you might be adding stress to your life that could end in

With Emma Munroe Somatic exploration in counselling invites us to slow down and pay attention to how life is actually experienced in the moment through sensation, emotion, and breath. Long

A Bio-Psycho-Social Approach With Kyle Over recent decades, there has been an appreciable shift in mental health practice to adopt what is known as a ‘bio-psycho-social’ approach, capturing more of

With Kate Pinsonneault No relationship is stagnant.  All relationships go through ups and downs, and they also evolve and go through seasons as different as the change from spring to