Blue Door Counselling Services

08/11/2022

09/28/2021

September 30th is National Truth and Reconciliation Day. On this day, Blue Door Counselling Services will remain open to serve the mental health needs of our community and will be donating 100 percent of session fees to The Legacy of Hope.

A few sessions remain available on this day. Please reach out if you’d like to book and begin healing through your own trauma.

Check out the amazing things this charity is doing:

https://legacyofhope.ca/home/about-us/

06/04/2021

There’s a great little video embedded in this article!

https://www.emdria.org/emdr-in-the-news/prince-harry-speaks-out-about-his-experience-with-emdr-therapy/

Prince Harry speaks openly about mental health challenges and his experience with EMDR therapy while working toward healing.

04/21/2021

A helpful infographic shared by the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine today.

04/15/2021

In a stressful situation, have you ever acted in a way that you felt didn’t align with who you are as a person? 🙋🏻 Events like these can cause a lot of shame, embarrassment and can continue to be bothersome for years.

Your reactions were not based solely on what was happening in front of you. To make a decision on whether a situation merits a stress response or not, your brain looks at both the incoming information and your stored memories. Because your brain is trying to protect you from past hurtful experiences, sometimes that protective response is louder than we might like it to be. Try looking at your reaction as a need that wasn’t being met. What was that reaction trying to tell you? Did that stress response protect you at some points in your life?

When we offer others compassion we recognize that they are suffering and that mistakes are a part of a shared human experience. What would happen if you offered yourself the same warm, loving compassion that you offer others?

01/26/2021

It’s often thought that anxiety is another term for nervousness. If these are the messages you’ve received about anxiety, it can be really scary and shocking when it shows up in the ways listed below. When we live with these symptoms, our health anxiety can greatly increase. It can be difficult to distinguish between real physical threats and symptoms of anxiety. During a panic attack, you might literally feel like you are going to die. When experiencing symptoms of anxiety or panic remind yourself that you can do this, even though your head is telling you that you can’t. These symptoms are uncomfortable but can’t hurt you. It will pass. You can get through this.

Try bringing you’re awareness outside your body. Splash cold water on your face, stomp your feet on the ground, rub your hands together really fast creating a warm friction. If you’re in public and want to be discrete, try rubbing your fingers along the edge of your keys while concentrating on the feeling.

Occupy your mind. Name every movie within a movie genre that you can think of. Count backwards from 100 in intervals of 7.

Ground yourself with breathing excercises. Try some of these:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HAlTJscAuy8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8lM8pgMgjEs

And finally, reach out for help.

Check out on Instagram. She helps to normalize health anxiety. You’re not alone!

01/14/2021

Even our most ‘maladaptive’ behaviours are in place to protect us. There are parts of us that are in so much pain, that other parts within us will stop at nothing to protect them. Healing begins to happen when we recognize what they are protecting us from.

Loving ‘s Instagram page. IFS (internal family systems) is a therapy that recognizes and honours that there are many different parts of us that make us whole. We should learn to understand them and treat them with compassion.

01/08/2021

A great explanation of how EMDR therapy works to clear past and current disturbances.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR2112FKzfyS03707eSHn12b_OEiaG-iS4xq9tOs6lCKKIAptW5SY9j172Q&v=HNdMHuwvF_M&feature=youtu.be

The fundamental idea behind psychotherapy is that we tend to grow mentally unwell because we haven’t been able to think with sufficient clarity about the dif...

01/07/2021

As we move back into the orange phase be sure to take good care of yourself and reach out when needed.

Blue Door Counselling is offering virtual and in-person session with COVID-19 protocols in place.

12/18/2020

It can be hard to recognize that we’ve lived through trauma. These traumas that we often invalidate, can leave us with disturbances that hurt our mental and physical health. Having a safe place to work through them can lead to a healthier and happier way of living.