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Evans Family Counselling & Psychotherapy

Counselling and Psychotherapy services in Hamilton ON and online in Canada. Currently accepting new clients.

Offering in-person, virtual, and nature-based therapy appointments with experienced therapists.

03/30/2026

There’s a version of this story where I wrap it up neatly and tell you that I moved through it and came out stronger.

That’s not this version.

I’m still living with the impact of what happened last year. In my body, in my thoughts, in the way I sometimes move through the world with more guard up than I used to. This isn’t something I “worked through” once. It’s something I have to keep tending to, over and over again.

And I’m good at this work. I support other people through this every day.

And still … this is hard.

What I don’t think we talk about enough is how much effort it actually takes to heal in a world that rewards you for pretending you’re fine. A world that would rather you stay palatable than tell the truth about what you’ve been through. A world that subtly (and not so subtly) asks you to centre other people’s comfort over your own need to process something unbearable.

I’m honestly pi**ed off about that.

Because trauma doesn’t neatly resolve. Healing isn’t linear or pretty. It’s confronting, repetitive, and at times, exhausting. It asks you to feel things most people spend their lives avoiding.

And it asks you to go against everything you were taught about being “the strong one.”

So yes, there’s a kind of quiet defiance in how I move through this now. In letting things be real. In not minimizing the impact. In choosing honesty over comfort - mine and other people’s.

If you’re carrying something heavy, whether it’s recent or something you’ve held for years, I want you to know this:

You’re not doing it wrong because it’s still hard. You’re not weak for feeling the weight of it.

You were never meant to carry this much on your own.

❤️Marta

03/25/2026

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told “you’re so strong” after taking hit after hit.

And like … yeah, I am. But also - why is that the thing we praise?

Women get shaped to be this way. In families, in relationships, in the world we’re living in. We learn to anticipate, to over-function, to not need much, to just keep going.

And that stuff gets in there. Deep. So deep that we start calling it personality, or “just how I am.” Or … strength.

Meanwhile, our nervous systems are absolutely fried from holding everything together.

And the world isn’t exactly ready for the woman who starts saying no. Who stops over-performing, and who doesn’t smooth things over anymore. She gets called “difficult.”

These are often the women who end up in our office. The ones who are starting to see it, question it, and work on unlearning it. And in the process, they start figuring out who they are outside of all that over-functioning and self-abandoning.

Turns out “difficult” women aren’t the problem. They’re the ones changing the rules.

high functioning women burnout · anxious high achieving women · women overfunctioning in relationships · perfectionism and people pleasing women · therapy for high functioning women · trauma and overfunctioning patterns · emotional labour and gender roles · women mental load and burnout · self abandonment in women · healing from childhood trauma women

03/22/2026

in case your brain is already on its bu****it 🫠

high functioning women anxiety · sunday scaries · perfectionism recovery · people pleasing · self criticism therapy · trauma informed therapist · managing guilt and overthinking · emotional labour awareness · women’s mental health support · overachieving women self care

03/20/2026

Oh my little one… she worked so hard to keep things calm at home.

A lot of high-functioning women learned early how to read the room, stay small, and get it right.

We overperform, we overextend, we’re anxious. And somewhere along the way, we lose ourselves and call it “just who I am.”

high functioning women mental health · perfectionism anxiety support · people pleasing help · emotionally immature parents · therapy for overachievers · trauma informed therapy · recovering from childhood trauma · anxiety in women

03/18/2026

World events are showing up more and more in our therapy space. It’s impossible to go a day without reading or hearing about gross things that are happening - things that make us question where humanity is going.

Some days it feels impossible to keep watching the news. And some days it feels impossible to look away. If you care about what’s happening in the world, you’re probably living in that tension.

Look away and you feel like you’re abandoning your humanity. Immerse yourself in all of it and your nervous system starts to buckle under the weight.

Rage, grief, numbness, helplessness … All very normal responses to witnessing things that violate our deepest sense of right and wrong.

Our nervous systems were never designed to process this much horror in real time. But pretending it isn’t happening isn’t the answer either.

So the real question becomes: how do we stay present without letting it break us?

I wrote about this in my latest blog, including some practical ways to help your nervous system metabolize what you’re witnessing so you can stay informed and stay human. 🔗 in bio or visit www.evanscounselling.ca/blog

📸 Three Sisters, New Zealand taken by Marta

what is moral injury • how to cope with disturbing news • why the news makes me feel overwhelmed • nervous system response to stress and trauma • how to stay informed without burnout • trauma informed perspective on world events • emotional impact of global crises • how to bear witness without shutting down

03/16/2026

We’re totally jumping on a trend here.

Sometimes I wonder if our younger selves would have ever believed us if we told them where they’d be right now.

These little introverted, curious, sensitive, wild, playful kids never set out to become therapists. Never imagined they’d sit with grief, trauma, or the messy, complicated parts of people’s lives.

And yet, here we are - helping, listening, laughing, advocating. Somehow it makes sense that these tiny humans grew into the work we do today.

childhood trauma · healing · trauma therapist · systems therapist · healing relationships · trauma informed therapy · therapy that honours context · mental health awareness · grief support · healing through connection

03/11/2026

Turns out the critical voice in your head usually thinks it’s protecting you.

Which makes “just tell it to f*ck off” a slightly incomplete, and rude, intervention.

In our work, we help people get to know the parts of them that learned these jobs in the first place - with curiosity instead of shame.

If you’re looking for therapy that goes deeper than surface-level coping skills and worksheets, you can learn more at the 🔗 in bio or www.evanscounselling.ca

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internal family systems therapy · healing self-criticism · anxiety and perfectionism · people pleasing · childhood emotional neglect · relational trauma healing · parts work therapy · high functioning anxiety · trauma informed therapy · emotionally immature parents · nervous system survival patterns · therapy for women

03/09/2026

Come for the trauma-informed rants, therapy-is-political posts, nervous-system reality checks, wellness-industry side-eye, and slightly awkward therapist reels …

Stay for some radically punk human therapists.

And hey … you didn’t land here by accident. Hit follow & stay awhile 🫶🏻

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Evans Family Counselling & Psychotherapy is a team of deeply trauma-informed therapists who care a lot about the work we do and the humans we do it with.

We specialize in working with women who have spent most of their lives carrying too much: the responsible one, the overthinker, the emotional caretaker, the high-functioning anxious one who looks like she has it all together while quietly exhausting herself trying to hold everything (and everyone) together.

If that sounds familiar, you’re probably our kind of client. Click the 🔗 in bio or visit www.evanscounselling.ca to learn more

trauma informed therapy · relational trauma healing · high functioning anxiety in women · people pleasing · therapy for perfectionism · therapy for emotionally exhausted women · therapy for childhood emotional neglect · nervous system healing · relational therapy approach · trauma informed psychotherapist

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03/08/2026

Today is International Women’s Day.

And it’s not lost on me that while many of the people with the most power in the world are leading us deeper into cruelty, corruption, and destruction - it is women who keep showing up.

Naming what’s happening. Calling out harm. Protesting injustice. Caring for neighbours. Holding communities together.

And quietly, every day, doing the brave work of healing.

I see it in the women I work beside. I see it in the women who sit across from me in therapy.

Women willing to walk straight through the fire of their own pain if it means the cycle might stop with them, and the next generation might have a chance at something better.

In a world that often rewards domination and cruelty, that kind of courage matters. More than ever.

Today I’m holding deep gratitude for the women doing the work - often unseen, often unrecognized - that keeps this world human.

international women’s day · women holding communities together · emotional labour of women · healing generational trauma · feminist therapy · relational power of women · women leading change

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1685 Main Street West
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Tuesday	11am - 6pm
Wednesday	2pm - 8pm
Thursday	10am - 8pm
Saturday	10am - 2pm
Sunday	11am - 4pm

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