Paramount Psychology and Counselling

04/19/2026

You’ve heard your doctor say that prevention is key for longevity and health.

Why wait until you’re really struggling to take care of your mental health? Start before the breaking point!

Start early. Stay steady. Grow stronger.

Book now:
780-532-4944
https://paramountpsychology.janeapp.com

04/18/2026

I’m excited to be able to offer this groundbreaking trauma therapy at Paramount! Accelerated Resolution Therapy is a fast, effective and evidenced-based protocol that doesn’t require you to talk about your trauma.

Bright eyed and bushy tailed, ready for day 3 of the Accelerated Resolution Therapy training in Edmonton. I can’t wait to start using this with clients to clear trauma at Paramount Psychology and Counselling!

04/18/2026

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Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing—not career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.” Audrey Hepburn

🩵🙏🏼🩵 Leila

04/15/2026

04/14/2026

Why do we do what we do?

Because our community matters. ❤️

Everything we do is about supporting incredible local causes that make a real, lasting impact on the people we serve every day.

This year, we’re proud to support two amazing organizations: Project Brock and Camp Heal-a-Heart.

💛 Here’s a little more about Camp Heal-a-Heart Grande Prairie & District Grief Support Association :
Camp Heal-a-Heart provides a safe, supportive space for children who are grieving the loss of a loved one.

Through camp experiences, connection, and compassionate guidance, kids are given the opportunity to:
➡️ Share their stories
➡️ Build friendships with others who understand
➡️ Learn healthy ways to cope with grief

It’s a place where healing begins, and where kids are reminded they are not alone.

We believe no child should have to navigate grief without support — and Camp Heal-a-Heart makes that possible.

https://www.camphealaheart.com/

We’re honoured to stand behind a program that brings hope and healing to families in our community.

Stay tuned for ways you can help us support these incredible causes in 2026!

04/13/2026

🧠❤️🦠 **Did you know your body doesn’t have just ONE brain… but THREE powerful control centers?**
Science now shows that your **brain, heart, and gut** constantly communicate — shaping your thoughts, emotions, energy levels, and even your intuition.

Let’s break it down 👇

🧠 **1. The Brain – Your Logic & Decision Center**
Your brain handles:
✔ Thinking & reasoning
✔ Planning and focus
✔ Problem-solving
✔ Conscious decisions

It processes information from your senses and helps you analyze the world. But here’s the surprise… it’s NOT working alone.

❤️ **2. The Heart – Your Emotional Intelligence Hub**
Your heart has its **own network of neurons** — often called the “heart brain.”

It:
✔ Sends more signals to the brain than the brain sends to it
✔ Influences emotions & stress response
✔ Affects mental clarity and calm

A healthy heart rhythm can literally improve focus and emotional balance.

🦠 **3. The Gut – The “Second Brain”**
Your digestive system contains **millions of neurons** and produces over **90% of the body’s serotonin** — the happiness chemical.

It controls:
✔ Mood
✔ Instinct & intuition
✔ Stress levels
✔ Immune strength
✔ Digestion & energy

This is why gut problems often link to anxiety, fatigue, and low mood.

💡 **The Big Truth:**
Your thoughts, feelings, and health are a TEAM effort between these three systems.

When they’re balanced, you experience:
✨ Better focus
✨ Stable emotions
✨ Strong immunity
✨ More energy
✨ Clear intuition

When they’re out of sync — stress, anxiety, poor digestion, and fatigue show up fast.

🌿 **Take care of all three by:**
• Eating gut-friendly foods
• Managing stress
• Moving your body
• Sleeping well
• Breathing deeply

👉 Your body is smarter than you think.

💬 Which one surprised you the most — brain, heart, or gut?
❤️ Like & share this — most people have no idea about the “three brains”!

04/13/2026

We’re excited to announce that our series at the Grande Prairie Public Library continues with a vital session for older teens.

Join us on April 15th for: Safe Relationships. 🤝

This free, one-hour session is designed for youth aged 15–18. As they prepare for adulthood, we provide a safe space to explore:
- Relationship Dynamics: Identifying the difference between healthy connections and power/control dynamics.
- Safety & Red Flags: Recognizing different forms of dating violence, including stalking and digital tracking behaviors.
- Boundaries & Consent: Understanding personal rights and respect in any relationship.
- Practical Support: Learning safe ways to help themselves or friends who may be experiencing abuse.

We are proud to offer these important tools to help our local youth build a foundation of safety and respect.

⚠️ Pre-registration is required! Sign up here: https://events.gppl.ca/event/odyssey-house-safe-relationships-49954

04/12/2026

04/12/2026

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When you dedicate yourself to being as authentic to yourself as possible then you become a mirror to everyone who isn’t ready to do that for themselves yet. Your expression or your choices might trigger others. But you have to keep doing it. As the only other option is shrinking or limiting yourself and that isn’t really an option at all. And for every person you trigger, another person is inspired by your bravery and your light 💡

04/10/2026

Thank you to the Alberta Teachers’ Association for the thoughtful card. The children’s drawings on the front of the envelope warmed our hearts! Gestures like that truly go a long way….

To our teachers, thank you for the care and dedication you bring each day. The impact you have extends far beyond academics. You help shape the emotional wellbeing of the next generation, and for that we are truly grateful.

It was an honour to offer discounted counselling during the Alberta teachers’ strike. We believe that supporting teachers is an investment in the mental health of our entire community.

With sincere gratitude, Team Paramount
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04/10/2026

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If you grew up in a hard house, you get very good at hard things.

You learn to read a room before you've taken off your coat. You learn to sleep with one ear open, to find the exits. You become, without meaning to, extraordinarily competent at surviving. Anxiety starts to feel like home. Pain stops surprising you. It has become second nature.

So you take the competency with you. The bone-deep, exhaustingly reliable ability to handle whatever is difficult. You carry it into your adult life, and you keep surviving things and people keep telling you how strong you are.

The thing they don't see is what happens when things go well. When a relationship is kind without conditions. When a morning arrives with no crisis in it. When someone loves you in a way that doesn't cost you anything. When, against all your careful preparation, something good settles into your life and seems to intend to stay.

What do you do with that?

Well, you don't know. You wait for it to end. You look for the catch. You find yourself scanning the happiness the way you once scanned rooms, searching for the thing that will eventually confirm what you have always, quietly, believed: that this is temporary. That good things don't stay. That the space between now and when it falls apart is just the part you haven't gotten to yet.

You learn not to celebrate too loudly. Not to trust happiness too deeply. Not to lean fully into the moments that feel good, because somewhere inside you believe that loving something too much might make losing it hurt even more.

But healing asks something entirely different of us.

Healing asks us to stay. To stay inside the moment when things are good. To stop rushing ahead to the imagined disaster. To stop rehearsing heartbreak before it arrives. To stop holding joy at arm’s length as if protecting ourselves from it.

Real healing is learning how to let happiness sit beside you without immediately preparing for its funeral.

That’s much harder than people realize. It takes courage to allow joy to stay. It takes vulnerability to believe that good moments are not traps, that love is not just a prelude to loss, that peace is not something you have to apologize for.

Because when you truly open yourself to happiness, you also accept the possibility that it could disappear one day. And that is terrifying.

But it is also the only way to live fully.

Healing is realizing that joy is not something you have to deserve or justify. It is something you are allowed to inhabit. To sit inside. To breathe in.

And when it arrives, unexpected, gentle, fragile, you don’t rush to push it away.

You simply let it stay.

04/09/2026

Attunement— feeling deeply heard and understood,  sensing that the other person is in sync with you—is what heals us.
And this cannot happen with a machine…

What changes when trauma is understood through connection?
Explore EFT for Trauma.
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