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Memento Psychotherapy & Counselling

Cayla Townes, MA, RP, CCC
Help for difficult childhoods, trauma, and relationships

09/22/2025

Discover how traditional couples therapy often overlooks deeper relational wounds. Learn more about Relational Life Therapy (RLT) and its transformative approach to healing relationships.

Traditional couples therapy often focuses on teaching communication skills, helping partners understand each other's perspectives, or negotiating compromises. While these approaches can be helpful, they often address symptoms rather than the deeper relational wounds that drive relationship distress.

09/08/2025

Are you ready to try a different approach to therapy that goes beyond symptom management? Discover how memory reconsolidation therapies can create lasting, transformational change.

Traditional therapy often focuses on managing symptoms or developing coping strategies—learning to live with anxiety, depression, or relationship difficulties. But what if there was a way to actually transform the underlying emotional learnings that drive these struggles?

09/03/2025

Emotions are often dismissed as weaknesses or hurdles to overcome, but your emotions are messages. Do you know what they're trying to tell you?

We live in a culture that often treats emotions as inconveniences—things to be managed, suppressed, or overcome. We praise people for being "rational" and "logical," while emotional responses are often seen as weakness or poor self-control. But what if this entire framework is backwards?

08/25/2025

What are boundaries? They're not rules you impose on others. Boundaries are limits you set for yourself. Read more about boundaries and how to use them to nurture your relationships and your wellbeing.

Boundaries are one of the most misunderstood concepts in relationships and personal development. While the term gets thrown around frequently in therapy circles and self-help content, many people struggle to understand what boundaries actually are, how they work, and why they're essential for health...

08/20/2025

Parental estrangement is a difficult and emotionally charged topic. Check-out my latest article about what contributes to parental estrangement and what can be done to prevent it.

Parental estrangement—when adult children significantly limit or cut off contact with their parents—has become increasingly common in recent decades. While this trend is often met with confusion, judgment, and pain from all parties involved, understanding estrangement through the lens of attachm...

08/11/2025

When it comes to finding the right therapist, it’s more than just credentials. Discover how attunement and interpersonal neurobiology play crucial roles in finding a good fit.

When searching for a therapist, it's natural to focus on credentials, specializations, and years of experience. These factors matter, but they don't tell the whole story. You might find someone with impressive qualifications who leaves you feeling more confused and disconnected than when you started...

07/28/2025

Do you feel guilt for acknowledging that something was missing from your childhood? You're not alone. Many high-functioning adults wrestle with these feelings. My latest post explains why it's perfectly okay to feel hurt, even when you know your parents were doing their best.

Many high-functioning adults struggle with a particular kind of inner conflict: they know something was missing from their childhood, yet they feel guilty for acknowledging it. After all, their parents weren't abusive monsters. They were just... absent. Emotionally unavailable. Overwhelmed. Doing th...

07/21/2025

What is trauma, really? The term gets thrown around a lot these days, especially on social media, so here's a short breakdown of what it is and isn't from a clinical perspective.

In recent years, the word "trauma" has become increasingly common in everyday conversation, social media, and popular psychology. While this increased awareness has helped reduce stigma around mental health, it has also led to some confusion about what trauma actually means from a clinical perspecti...

07/14/2025

Is guilt holding you back? It's a powerful emotion, but it shouldn't control your life. In my latest post, learn more about the function of guilt and how to free yourself if you feel stuck in it's grip.

Guilt might be one of the most misunderstood emotions in the human experience. We treat it like a houseguest that overstays its welcome, when in reality, guilt is more like a smoke detector—incredibly useful when there's actually a fire, but absolutely maddening when it keeps going off because you...

06/23/2025

Have you ever felt disconnected from your emotions or struggled in relationships without knowing why? You’re not alone. Explore the profound impact of childhood emotional neglect on adult life. Learn more about this invisible wound and why it’s hard to discuss.

Picture this: You're sitting in a therapy session, trying to explain why you feel so disconnected from yourself and others, why you struggle with relationships, or why you can't seem to trust your own emotions. Your therapist asks about your childhood, and you shrug. "It was fine," you say. "Nothing...

06/18/2025

When faced with perceived danger, our nervous system triggers four primary responses: Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn. Learn how these trauma responses shape the way we relate and behave in my latest post.

When faced with perceived danger, our nervous system has four primary responses that have kept humans alive for millennia: Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn.

06/11/2025

Our minds evolved to thrive in tight-knit communities, yet modern living often feels isolating. To better understand the mental health impacts of our digital age on our hunter-gatherer brain, check out my latest blog post.

Our brains evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to thrive in small, tight-knit communities where physical movement was constant, social bonds were essential for survival, and threats were immediate and concrete. Yet in just a few decades, we've created an environment that contradicts nearly e...

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