SEEK Therapeutic Counselling

08/20/2025

We have all been conditioned. Men and women alike.

Conditioning tells us who we should be, how we should act, what is acceptable, and what will keep us safe in the eyes of others. It rewards compliance and punishes authenticity.

Over time, those rules can make us smaller. Quieter. Less ourselves.

The work of healing is not about fixing what is broken, but about noticing the patterns we never chose and beginning to question them.

What are you unlearning right now?

07/19/2025

Some love does not end.
It just changes form.

Maybe you have felt it… in the stillness, in the song that plays at just the right moment, in the shift of light across your skin.

Maybe you have doubted it, tried to explain it away.

But what if you didn’t?

What if you trusted that the signs are real.
That they are still with you,
in ways that do not need words, only presence.

This is for anyone who is grieving
and still listening.

If this speaks to something in you,
save it, share it, or let it stay with you for a while.

You are not alone in this. 🙏💕🌿🪧

07/17/2025

There’s the grief we can name: the loss, the betrayal, the rupture.
And then there’s the quiet kind.

The grief for the version of ourselves we never got to be.

The self that didn’t get to speak freely.
The one that learned to shrink to stay safe.
The one that was always scanning the room.
The one that never got to rest.

You may not even recognize this as grief, but it shows up.

In the ache. The resentment. The bone-deep exhaustion.

This kind of grief doesn’t ask for solutions.
It asks for witnessing.
It asks you to sit with the parts of you
that were pushed aside
so you could make it through.

You’re allowed to mourn the cost.
And you’re allowed to begin again.

Is there a version of yourself you’re grieving , even if you’ve never said it out loud?

🙏💕🌿

07/16/2025

Each Wednesday, I’ll share a simple practice to help soothe your nervous system and bring you back into connection with yourself. These are tools I use often, with clients and in my own life.

This week’s note is the 5-4-3-2-1 Reset.
It’s a sensory grounding practice that gently brings your awareness back to the present.

Here’s how it works:

Notice five things you can see.
Notice four things you can touch.
Notice three things you can hear.
Notice two things you can smell.
Notice one thing you can taste.

If accessing the senses feels difficult in the moment, you can also take one slow, steady exhale. That counts too.

This practice can be used anywhere. When you’re anxious. When you feel frozen. When you’re overstimulated or just need to pause and come back to yourself.

It’s a quiet way to say, I am here. I am safe. I can return.

Let me know if you try it today. 🥰 🌿💕🙏

07/15/2025

If you’ve spent years performing to be good, agreeable, useful, or composed, you’re not alone.

When performance becomes protection, it’s easy to lose touch with who you are underneath it all.

But healing doesn’t mean fixing yourself.
It means learning how to return to yourself, one moment at a time.

This post walks you through a simple daily practice I use with clients (and myself) to begin that return:

Notice.
Name.
Nurture.

If this resonates, save it or share it.
Even a small pause can change everything.

Love and support to you on your journey. 🙏💕🌿

07/14/2025

Perfection is a performance, often one we learned early.
To be loved, to stay safe, to avoid conflict or shame.
But it can also disconnect us from who we really are.

This post is a gentle invitation to pause.
To wonder who you might meet if you let go of the striving.
To ask what’s been buried underneath all that effort to be enough.

You don’t have to have an answer.
The asking is enough.

Take a breath with this one.
Share if it resonates, or save it to sit with later.
You’re not alone in this work.

07/13/2025

So many people arrive in therapy thinking they need to change.
To be calmer. Nicer. Less reactive. More put together.
Less much.

But what if the real work isn’t about fixing or improving?
What if it’s about remembering?

Letting go of the performance.
Reclaiming your truth.
Peeling back the layers you put on to be safe, accepted, or loved.

You don’t need to become someone new.
You need to remember who you were before you forgot.

This is the kind of work we do here.
If it speaks to you, you’re not alone.

What parts of you are asking to be remembered?

SEEK Therapeutic Counselling offers a safe space to explore your mental health and wellness through supportive and compassionate talk-therapy.

07/12/2025

So many of us carry the quiet belief that something is wrong with us, that we’re too much, not enough, or in need of fixing.
But therapy isn’t a repair shop. It’s a space for remembering, reconnecting, and reclaiming the parts of ourselves we’ve tucked away.

This is the kind of work I do, and the kind of reflection I share here.

If you’re on a path of healing or just starting to wonder what that might look like, I’m glad you’re here.

Love and support to you on your journey. 🙏💕

07/12/2025

I’ve had clients say, “I thought therapy was supposed to make me better.”
And I always pause. Because better than what?

Who told you that you were broken in the first place?

Therapy isn’t about erasing parts of you. It’s about uncovering what’s always been there — beneath the fear, the performance, the self-doubt.

It’s not about fixing.
It’s about finding.
And you are still in there.

Love and support to you on your journey. 🙏💜

07/08/2025

Ever feel pulled in two directions? Like part of you wants to feel deeply, the other wants to stay in control? That might be your Anima or Animus at work.

In Jungian psychology, we all carry an inner opposite. The Anima (inner feminine) and the Animus (inner masculine) influence how we love, think, relate, and react. These archetypes live beneath the surface but shape so much of how we move through the world.

This isn’t about gender. It’s about integration. It’s about becoming whole.

In this new series, we’ll explore what these inner figures look like, how they show up in relationships, and how shadow work can help you meet the parts of you you’ve been searching for all along.

This depth work is some of my favourite. It’s rich, meaningful, and healing. ❤️‍🩹 Stay tuned!

Love and support to you on your journey. 🙏💜

07/08/2025

"ChatGPT-Induced Psychosis and the Good-Enough Therapist
Why a therapist’s imperfection Is essential and perfect agreement Is dangerous."

This is a critical conversation to be having right now. I think AI can be an important tool in many aspects of our lives, but it doesn't replace human connection, creativity, or experience.

Interactions with AI can be destabilizing for some people. Looking at why can help us understand what's unique about the therapeutic relationship.

07/03/2025

You’re not behind.
You’re not doing it wrong.
You’re just walking the path in your own time.

There is no deadline on becoming.
You get to move at the pace that feels true.

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Save this if you need the reminder.
You’re allowed to go slow.