Tiffany Burtch Therapy

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Tiffany Burtch Therapy

Psychotherapist in Guelph. Helping individuals of all ages, couples and families meet their goals. I am a registered Psychotherapist in the province of Ontario.

Helping people reach their goals through compassion and connectivity is a deep love of mine. I help people create beauty in their lives and work to see the beauty that already exists within them through an experience of being connected and supported. I bring my authentic self to the therapy room and work towards congruency in my work and home life. I have experience working with adults and children of all ages. My first training was in Couple and Family Therapy at the University of Guelph and since then I have trained in Dialectal Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Prolonged Exposure, and Somatic Experiencing (SE). I have interests in Eco-Therapy and am developing skill set within it. My undergraduate degree is in Sexuality, Marriage and Family Studies, so I have an interest and a love in talking sexuality with all types of folks.

04/16/2025

I often look at pictures and watch videos - they are so special and important, but when I miss her deep in my heart I miss her words and her actions.

I don’t have videos of her picking up the most mundane thing at the grocery store or her picking up the kids or wiping tears from my face when I’ve been crying, but I do have these.

The words live in messages sent back and forth and the mundane is where the beauty is.

The near constant flirting and gratitude is deeply missed in the here and now, but also deeply present in her messages

These are a small smattering of daily life with Tiff and Jane.

04/09/2025

I’m co-facilitating a Death Café in my wee town with the talented and knowledgeable Jill Davey.

You don’t need to be actively grieving someone, you don’t even need to have experienced loss. An interest in talking about life, death and dying is all that is needed.

Feel free to ask me any questions that you might have.

Come join us!

03/03/2025

My ADHD babes!!! I’m ironing out details for hosting a short retreat in a truly magical place.

This retreat has been percolating in my mind for some time. Be prepared to leave with more skills for living and working with your brain and renewed confidence in how your unique and special brain works.

If you’re interested in joining the wait list or are seeking more information send me a message or an email.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

***rs

01/25/2025

A widow day!

My wife would both love and hate that I’m writing cards for folks who donated to Hospice Wellington in her name. She would love it, because it’s kind and it honours folks thinking of her, and she’d hate it because she never wanted to add anything to my plate ESPECIALLY when it came to her death.

No one could have prepared me for how much paperwork there would be. (This kind is the fun kind). Or how many bank trips or meetings or phone calls.

Handling someone’s estate is no joke AND my wife really didn’t have much to handle at all.

01/22/2025

I mentioned this prayer in my video about the day my wife died. This is the prayer read as her smiling, beautiful body was brought from Hospice to the funeral home.

12/20/2024

My yearly holiday reminders:

You can leave the room instead of leaving your body (or maybe after you leave your body, if you don’t catch it in time).

Lots of us struggle around the holidays or at family gatherings and it’s better for our mental health if we take frequent brakes instead of dissociating.

AND! The second slide has some questions you can ask yourself ahead of family gatherings to prep, to ground, to regulate.

Sending ya’all lots and lots of love as you brave family!

12/02/2024

My wife used to say “My Love, come and sit with me.” It was such a really beautiful invitation. I never turned it down.

Her and I would joke often that my daughter was hers. They were so alike in many meaningful ways.

My daughter has done truly hilarious things totally inspired by my wife - like stripping in the public library because she was “hot flashing!”

The two of them really shone in the sacred presence of their loved ones. And my daughter, in these simple ways that children mirror their parents asks me often, “mom, come and sit with me.”

And I do.

11/26/2024

I'm offering a supervision group in January. It should be pretty great! We have room for three more folks. I'm happy to answer questions about how I use neuro-affirming, anti-capitalist and q***r theory in supervision.
http://www.tiffanythetherapist.ca/supervision.html

11/26/2024

Look at how cute I am!!!

I was walking with some dear, sweet friends of mine today. A moment before this picture was taken I was talking about my book. That it is finished! That it’s been edited, that I must now write query letters! And, mostly, that I truly can’t believe that I have managed to write a whole ass book.

My friend stopped to rummage through her bag and said “I need to take your picture! You’re just radiant.”

And you know what? I believe her! Because when we talk about our souls deep loves we radiate. Writing has become mine.

Let me know if you want to hear more about my book or my writing journey!

11/03/2024

A week of grieving in pictures:
1) Enjoying the leaves.
2) My wife has a new neighbour at the cemetery. Which sad for a whole family, but I trust that she welcomes all newcomers into the realm of the dead with open arms. This is a picture of a borrow that a critter made in the new dirt.
3) In a moment of sleeplessness I looked up (again) our moon phases when both my wife and I were born (they are the same). I feel heartened when there is something external that confirms that we were indeed very in love and a very good match. Time can make that fuzzy.
4 & 5) Going through her phone finding more pictures and videos of me that she had saved of me on her phone. The first one I had never seen and don’t know when it was taken or what we were up to. I simply feel appreciative of getting to see me from her point of view.
6) I got dressed up to go out with my family. My hair grows and I’m starting to see myself in my face again.
7) New life. We adopted these furry bundles to bring new life into our home. We need people (🐈) who haven’t experienced a recent loss to remind us all of our aliveness.
8) My daughter cuddling Darling the dog. She was saying to me “mom, Darling is so sad because Jane died.” We got to have a rare and good talk about how sad we all are that Jane isn’t coming back.

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11/01/2024

I love Halloween. (That might not be a surprise).

I love the candy. I love kids running around. I love costumes. I love the decorations. I love all of it.

This is the first Halloween, ever that I haven’t gotten dressed up in some way.

It’s the first Halloween that brought me to tears as I took my youngest trick or treating.

There was a house that had a display of skeletons dressed in wedding attire. They stood under an archway, a skeleton officiant held a Bible. Two skeleton witnesses stood watching, presumably waiting to sign their assent to this marriage.

Death feels so close. And it is. My wife’s beautiful body lays 4 feet under ground a short distance from my home. She is slowly returned to the earth as her organs turn to water.

It is beautiful and poetic and macabre.

This year may be the first year that I realized that Halloween, although it thinks it lives close to death, misses the beauty.

It misses authentic celebration and death into cheap dollar store plastic.

That’s hard for me.

There is nothing cheap in the death of my wife. Deep reverence for her existence and for the reality of returning to earth stand in the place of cheap.

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