MMB Counselling and Consulting.

05/28/2025

Do your best. They’re doing theirs.

05/22/2025

01/24/2025

Hey!

Do you have a young one, aged 7-9 or 10-12? Would learning about positive communication strategies be helpful? How about ways to use them? Opportunities to practice?

Communication is a broad stroke of the brush. Sure-we all make noise with our face. 🤣.

Have your young one join a small group of others, share time with an experienced and educated facilitator, and feel better prepared for the nuances of communication in our ever-changing world.

One guarantee: participants will not be refining their texting skills. 🥳

Reach out to Krystle at Krystle@mmbcounselling.com or info@mmbcounselling.com for more information.

Registration Deadline: February 5. Groups start February 8!

01/19/2025

📣 When: February 8- March 22, 2025
⏱️ 10 am (ages 7-9) and 11:30 (ages 10-12).
👏 Registration closing February 5.
🔗 In person or Zoom intake required*
Cost: $400. (5 sessions).

Reach out to krystle@mmbcounselling.com or info@mmbcounselling.com

12/05/2024

Thank you to those who reached out and sought information on the upcoming Braining Camp during the Christmas Holidays.

Unfortunately, scheduling changes were required. I hope to see and hear from everyone about the camp on March 6 and 7, 2025!

As the mindfulness guru and author of the book Peak Mind, the mindfulness guru and author of the book Peak Mind, , states, "Attention is Boss." Join us to learn more about how your attention operates, how you can increase your processing speed, and learn strategies to better regulate your performance, health, and more!

Stay Tuned!

12/04/2024

A challenge in our lives rarely waits for the “best time” to happen. Compassion begins immediately by seeing and hearing the person. I am grateful for those who’ve chosen to share their lives with me.

Happily, I’ve been able to create some more space and openings in my calendar for 2025! Feel free to view available times on our webpage at www.mmbcounselling.com, and book with myself or any of our team members!!

Be well.

Mental health, Wellness, and Optimal Human Performance.

11/21/2024

Find the common thread. Be your own “algorithm” and sit with each of the quotes, dig in as to what it means to you, avoid googling what it means to others, and find a common theme amongst them.

Then, and only then, should you put your thoughts out to the world and “check in”.

Sometimes this activity feels “ridiculous”. Others…how the start of a therapeutic journey can feel like.

A great therapist will sit with you, ask you more about “that”, seek an understanding that you’ve held, and be curious about how these thoughts became reasons.

Sitting down with a great therapist feels like telling a snapshot of your life story and feeling heard and understood that there is more to come.

09/07/2024

I agree with Dr. Grant.

Happiness is a construct. We put this state together in different ways when we’re aware of the joy we bring to our intrinsic activities and the satisfaction we feel from the extrinsic ones.

Toxic happiness is led by denial. Joy is sought. Connection to loving others is authentic and passed on unconsciously between us. Mindfulness teaches us to have attention for these intrinsic states.

Being present is easy to say. Hence why we are not always that good at joy.

05/01/2024

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01/03/2024

We do great things in our life, with our life, and for our life. We do not do them alone.

We are grateful and humbled to be a part of clients, families, organizations, and one another’s lives. All the best to start 2024.

12/13/2023

Consider something. Our post suggests the terms of sensitive and vulnerable. These can be hard terms for many adults to appreciate when their little person is clenching fists and leaning forward.

What if those same adults understood the experience as pain? What if those same fists and lean are triggers because they too, had experienced this pain in the past.

You may have more in common at that point than not.

If we recognized these anger or anxiety spaces as “pain”, how would we handle them differently?

Spoiler Alert: it is pain.

11/25/2023

Matthew Bain, MEd, MA specializes in Sport Psychology, Mental Training, and Individual Counselling. He is based out of Grande Prairie Alberta.