Qualia Counselling Services

Qualia Counselling Services Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in the Kitchener-Waterloo Region

We all know how easy it is to let those summer nights pull us into late gatherings and endless screen time. But remember...
07/05/2025

We all know how easy it is to let those summer nights pull us into late gatherings and endless screen time. But remember, a good night’s sleep is your best friend in tackling anxiety.

☀️ Longer daylight hours and social events can disrupt routines, leading to poor sleep — a key driver of anxiety.

🧠 Tip: Stick to a regular bedtime, reduce screen time at night, and create a cool, dark sleeping environment.

📊 Nearly 50% of Canadians with anxiety report chronic sleep problems. (CAMH, 2022)


Nature is a powerful healer for little minds.Try these simple outdoor ideas this summer:🌳 Tree hugging or laying under t...
07/03/2025

Nature is a powerful healer for little minds.
Try these simple outdoor ideas this summer:
🌳 Tree hugging or laying under the clouds
🏞 Quiet walks with sensory noticing (“What do you hear, see, feel?”)
🌊 Toe-dipping in water or bare feet on the ground
🎨 Nature-based art (leaf rubbings, rock painting)

Connection to land = connection to self.

Summer freedom can be joyful — but also overwhelming for kids with anxiety, trauma, or sensory sensitivities.Here’s how ...
07/02/2025

Summer freedom can be joyful — but also overwhelming for kids with anxiety, trauma, or sensory sensitivities.
Here’s how to support emotional regulation:
🌞 Stick to calming routines
🍎 Keep regular meals and snacks
🛏 Prioritize rest and downtime
🧸 Provide safe spaces for quiet play or retreat

✅ Predictability = safety. And safety supports mental health.

We cherish Canada for its stunning landscapes, its values of freedom, and its diverse communities.True love also involve...
07/01/2025

We cherish Canada for its stunning landscapes, its values of freedom, and its diverse communities.

True love also involves listening, learning, and evolving together.

This Canada Day, let’s come together to celebrate our common bonds:

🧡 Our compassion for one another
🕊 Our collective desire for peace
🌱 Our aspiration for a brighter, more equitable future

As Canada continues to grow and evolve, each of us plays a vital role in shaping its path.

Today, many are celebrating.But for others this day brings up grief, resistance, and remembrance.🧡 Mental health is deep...
07/01/2025

Today, many are celebrating.
But for others this day brings up grief, resistance, and remembrance.

🧡 Mental health is deeply connected to identity.
💬 Belonging. Safety. Ancestry. Land. Language.

Let’s honour all of Canada’s truths.
Holding space for complexity is healing.

Canada Day can be an emotional day. For some, it brings pride. For others, pain.Let’s honour the incredible strength of ...
07/01/2025

Canada Day can be an emotional day. For some, it brings pride. For others, pain.

Let’s honour the incredible strength of Indigenous, Black, and newcomer communities who have persisted through systemic harm — and continue to build vibrant futures.

🌱 Resilience is mental health.
🌿 Cultural identity is medicine.
🧡 Land, language, and lineage matter.

Trauma can have profound effects on our mental well-being, often manifesting as anxiety, depression, or even sleep distu...
06/30/2025

Trauma can have profound effects on our mental well-being, often manifesting as anxiety, depression, or even sleep disturbances. It's crucial to acknowledge these feelings and begin the journey toward healing. Together, we can foster understanding and support one another on the path to recovery. You are not alone.
Let’s support healing.

Struggling with emotional overwhelm, anxiety, or disconnection this summer?Here are trauma-informed ways to gently recon...
06/29/2025

Struggling with emotional overwhelm, anxiety, or disconnection this summer?

Here are trauma-informed ways to gently reconnect - with others, with land, and with yourself:

🤝 Connect with People:
• Share a quiet coffee outdoors with a trusted friend
• Join a cultural, community, or peer support gathering
• Cook or garden with someone — connection through rhythm, not pressure

🍃 Connect with the Land:
• Sit under a tree and ground yourself barefoot in the earth
• Take slow, mindful walks at sunrise or sunset
• Journal or pray beside water

🌞 Why it helps:
Safe connection — with people or place — calms the nervous system, soothes hyperarousal, and brings us back into our bodies. It’s not just beautiful. It’s regulating.

We hope your weekend is filled with meaningful connections. Trauma often leads to disconnection, isolating us from other...
06/28/2025

We hope your weekend is filled with meaningful connections. Trauma often leads to disconnection, isolating us from others, safety, and even ourselves.

However, healing begins when we work to rebuild those bridges.
🌱 Through nurturing relationships
🌱 Through community and cultural engagement
🌱 Through kindness, routine, and self-care

Connection is not merely comforting — it is transformative. Neuroscience demonstrates that safe and supportive relationships can help regulate the nervous system, repair neural pathways, and restore a sense of meaning and belonging.

💬 Remember, healing is not a solitary journey. It unfolds through connection — one relationship, one breath, and one moment at a time.

05/23/2025

Today’s the day!! 🎉

Join us today for a fun-filled evening of community connection and awareness!

Qualia Counselling Services is excited to host a Six Nations community awareness month event on Friday, May 23rd from 4pm-7pm!

Enjoy a delicious BBQ, get your face painted. bounce around with the kids in our bouncy castle, and indulge in tasty treats like popcorn, cotton candy, and snow cones. Plus, participate in exciting games and win fantastic raffle prizes (free to enter).

Come out and connect with us, meet our team, and learn more about our counselling services. We can't wait to see you there!

When: Friday, May 23rd
Time: 4pm-7pm
Where: 40 Cao Lane, Ohsweken

We are excited to see you there! 🍔🎈
Six Nations Community Awareness

Happy Admininstrative Professionals’ Day to our incredible administrative team! You are the first smile individuals see ...
04/23/2025

Happy Admininstrative Professionals’ Day to our incredible administrative team! You are the first smile individuals see when they walk through our doors, and your kindness and compassion set the tone for their entire visit. Your behind-the-scenes work keeps our clinic running smoothly, allowing our clinicians to focus on providing top-notch care. Thank you for your dedication, empathy, and hard work. You truly make a difference in the lives of our clients and staff!

Practice Cognitive Reframing Today! 🧠Try this:1️⃣Write down a negative thought you’ve had today.2️⃣Challenge it—ask your...
03/10/2025

Practice Cognitive Reframing Today! 🧠

Try this:

1️⃣Write down a negative thought you’ve had today.
2️⃣Challenge it—ask yourself, ‘Is there another way to view this?’
3️⃣Replace it with a more balanced, constructive thought.

Your perspective shapes your reality!

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Kitchener, ON
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Tuesday 9am - 9pm
Wednesday 9am - 9pm
Thursday 9am - 9pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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Qualia’s Core Purpose

Our core purpose at Qualia Counselling Services is unlocking human potential and eliminating suffering in the world through cognitive behavioural teaching, coaching and psychotherapy.

The purpose is upheld through our core values: Professional Excellence We deliver world class services through the utilization of best practices and continual innovation.

Strength of Character Our staff seek to exemplify virtues of courage, humanity, temperance, wisdom, transcendence and justice.

Alleviation of Suffering Embodied through our anti-oppressive practices that strive to eliminate emotional suffering and ignorance through education, treatment and promoting growth.