Northern Therapy Practice

02/20/2026

Children Don’t Need Perfect Parents. They Need Regulated Ones.

When a child is melting down, acting out, or becoming aggressive…

What they need most is not punishment.
They need safety.

Kids borrow regulation from adults.

That means the most powerful thing you can offer is:

• a calm nervous system
• consistent boundaries
• repair after hard moments
• connection before correction

Behavior is communication.
And many children act out when their bodies feel overwhelmed — not when they are “bad.”

Play therapy and child-focused support helps kids build skills from the inside out.

📍 Northern Therapy Practice
🌐 www.northerntherapypractice.ca
📲 705-282-7198
✉ wellness@northerntherapypractice.ca

02/18/2026

Anxiety Is Often a Body Pattern, Not a Personality Trait

A lot of people think anxiety is just “worrying too much.”

But anxiety is often the nervous system staying on high alert.

It can look like:

• needing constant reassurance
• always scanning for what could go wrong
• difficulty relaxing, even during good times
• feeling tense for no clear reason
• trouble sleeping or shutting your mind off

Anxiety isn’t a flaw.
It’s a protection strategy.

The goal of therapy isn’t to convince you nothing bad will happen —
it’s to help your system stop living like it already is.

You deserve peace that reaches your body, not just your thoughts.

📍 Northern Therapy Practice
🌐 www.northerntherapypractice.ca
📲 705-282-7198
✉ wellness@northerntherapypractice.ca

02/16/2026

Trauma Isn’t Just a Memory

Trauma isn’t only something that happened in the past.
It’s something the nervous system can still be living inside.

Even when life is calm now, your body may still respond like danger is nearby:

• tight chest
• sudden anger or shutdown
• overthinking everything
• feeling unsafe in normal moments
• difficulty resting or trusting

This isn’t you being dramatic.
This is your nervous system doing what it learned to do to survive.

Healing isn’t about “getting over it.”
It’s about teaching the body that the threat is no longer happening.

Trauma therapy helps the system finally come out of survival mode.

📍 Northern Therapy Practice
🌐 www.northerntherapypractice.ca
📲 705-282-7198
✉ wellness@northerntherapypractice.ca

02/13/2026

💘 Valentine’s Giveaway Winner! 💘

Congratulations to Christy Taibossigai on winning our $100 gift certificate to Cortina Restaurant Espanola! 🎉

We hope you enjoy a special Valentine’s Day — whether you’re celebrating with someone you love or treating yourself — your gift certificate is at Cortina waiting for you! 🌹✨

Thank you so much to everyone who participated and helped spread the love. We appreciate you all! 💕

Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at Northern Therapy Practice 💗

02/12/2026

LAST DAY TO LIKE SHARE COMMENT TO WIN YOUR VALENTINES DAY DINNER 🫶🏼❤️

🎉 GIVEAWAY TIME! 🎉

Northern Therapy Practice is excited to give back to our community!

✨ WIN a $100 gift card to Cortina Restaurant Espanola ✨
Perfect for a Valentine’s Day treat 💝

How to enter:
✅ Like & follow our page
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✅ Tag a friend in the comments

👉 Each tag = an extra entry, so tag away!

🗓 The winner will be chosen on February 13 — just in time for Valentine’s Day!
The winner will be announced right here on our page.

Good luck to everyone, and thank you for supporting Northern Therapy Practice 💙

02/10/2026

When Repair Without Accountability Becomes Harmful

Some people don’t experience one betrayal —
they live inside a pattern of it.

Trust breaks.
You’re pushed to forgive.
Repair happens without real change.
And the harm repeats.

Over time, this creates:

• self-doubt
• hypervigilance
• exhaustion
• shame for needing boundaries
• loss of safety in relationships

Boundaries aren’t punishment — they’re protection.

Real repair requires accountability, not just apologies.

If this resonates, nothing is wrong with you.
Your nervous system is responding to repeated harm.

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🌐 www.northerntherapypractice.ca
📲 705-282-7198
✉️ wellness@northerntherapypractice.ca

02/09/2026

Praise feels good — but it doesn’t always build confidence.

Confidence grows when kids understand:
• what they did
• how they did it
• why it worked

Instead of:
“You’re so good!”

Try:
“You stayed with that even when it was hard.”
“You figured out a way to calm your body.”
“You didn’t give up — that matters.”

Specific feedback builds internal confidence.

At Northern Therapy Practice, we focus on helping children build skills, confidence, and a sense of control — not just managing behavior.

🌐 www.northerntherapypractice.ca
📲 705-282-7198
✉️ wellness@northerntherapypractice.ca

02/06/2026

A dysregulated nervous system can’t feel confident.

When children are overwhelmed:
• thinking shuts down
• confidence drops
• behavior escalates

Teaching regulation skills gives children control over their inner world — and that’s where real confidence begins.

Calm → clarity → capability.

At Northern Therapy Practice, we focus on helping children build skills, confidence, and a sense of control — not just managing behavior.

🌐 www.northerntherapypractice.ca
📲 705-282-7198
✉️ wellness@northerntherapypractice.ca

02/05/2026

Tools That Build Confidence (Especially for Struggling Kids)

Making Kids Masters of Their Own World

Some confidence-building tools that actually work:

✔️ Break tasks into achievable steps
✔️ Practice skills before they’re needed
✔️ Name effort, not outcome
✔️ Allow mistakes without shame
✔️ Focus on progress, not perfection

Confidence isn’t about getting it right.
It’s about learning “I can try again.”

At Northern Therapy Practice, we focus on helping children build skills, confidence, and a sense of control — not just managing behavior.

🌐 www.northerntherapypractice.ca
📲 705-282-7198
✉️ wellness@northerntherapypractice.ca

01/30/2026

When a child says something that isn’t true, it doesn’t always mean they’re lying.

Lying is when a child knows something isn’t true and says it anyway to hide, avoid, or trick.
Inaccurate information can happen when a child:
• remembers it wrong
• misunderstands what happened
• feels overwhelmed and gives a safer answer to reduce fear

In these moments, the brain is protecting — not manipulating.

As psychologist Bella DePaulo, a leading researcher on lying, explains:

“People lie most often when they feel threatened, afraid, or unsafe — not because they lack morals.”

The difference isn’t the words.
The difference is intention and nervous-system state.

Here’s how parents can respond in a way that builds honesty instead of fear:

✔️ Stay calm — overwhelm blocks accuracy
✔️ Get curious, not accusatory
✔️ Separate safety from consequences
✔️ Thank children when they correct themselves
✔️ Focus on repair, not punishment

When children feel safe, their answers become clearer.
When they feel scared, their answers become protective.

This is how we help children become masters of their own lives — able to reflect, take responsibility, and trust themselves without shame.

💛 Learn how to guide honesty with clarity, compassion, and confidence.

🌐 www.northerntherapypractice.ca
📲 705-282-7198
✉ wellness@northerntherapypractice.ca

01/28/2026

01/22/2026

Addiction isn’t about substances.
It’s about unresolved pain stored in the nervous system.

As Gabor Maté reminds us, the real question isn’t “Why the addiction?”
It’s “Why the pain?”

Unprocessed trauma can keep the nervous system stuck in survival mode — using substances for temporary relief, followed by shame and deeper dysregulation.

✨ This is where EMDR helps.
EMDR supports the brain in reprocessing trauma, reducing emotional charge, and breaking the survival loop driving addiction.

At Northern Therapy Practice, we don’t treat addiction as a behavior problem —
we treat the trauma underneath it.

Recovery isn’t about willpower.
It’s about healing what the nervous system never got to finish.

📲 705-282-7198
🌐 www.northerntherapypractice.ca
✉️ wellness@northerntherapypractice.ca