Changing Tides Therapy

Changing Tides Therapy https://linktr.ee/therapywithjulieb

03/06/2026

Happy to share that Changing Tides Therapy and I are doing a 10-week virtual group for survivors of GBV.
This group is for veterans ONLY. You must have coverage through Blue Cross to participate.
Please contact through Redoubt for registration information.
If you have questions about the group or what we're going to cover please DM me.

What if Anne Shirley walked into my therapy room today? 🛋️✨As an 11-year-old orphan arriving at Green Gables, Anne prese...
03/02/2026

What if Anne Shirley walked into my therapy room today? 🛋️✨

As an 11-year-old orphan arriving at Green Gables, Anne presents with incredible strengths—creativity, high verbal ability, and deep empathy. But she also carries the weight of her past: a “fear of being sent away” and intense emotional volatility.

In this fictional case conceptualization, we look at:
🌱 Relational Safety: Moving from “trial adoption” to a true sense of belonging.

🌊 Emotion Regulation: Learning to navigate the ‘Depths of Despair’ without staying there.

💪 Strengths-Based Care: Leveraging her 100/100 imagination as a tool for healing.

Success for Anne isn’t about becoming “quiet” or “sensible”—it’s about her knowing she is allowed to take up space exactly as she is.

Which fictional character should I ‘treat’ next? Let me know below!

MentalHealthMatters ChangingTidesTherapy

02/18/2026

I promise it’s a lot less intimidating than the “Inner Child Work” makes me sound. Just a human who likes spending time at the wheel, occasionally throwing a pot off-center (to my own disappointment), and helping you navigate the wobbly bits of life. 🍋🏺

If you’ve been nervous about booking that first session, consider this your sign that therapy doesn’t have to be clinical or cold. It can be just as grounded as a hand-thrown citrus juicer.

We don’t have to be perfectly centered to be functional and full of zest. 🫶😘

EmbraceTheWobble MentalHealthSupport OttawaCreatives

POV: You finally reached Secure Bae status. 💅✨Being secure isn’t about being “boring”—it’s about being free. Free from t...
02/17/2026

POV: You finally reached Secure Bae status. 💅✨

Being secure isn’t about being “boring”—it’s about being free. Free from the games, free from the “what did they mean by that?” spirals, and free to actually enjoy the person you’re with.

When you’re secure, you don’t need to “protest” and you don’t need to “deactivate.” You just... exist. And it’s the most powerful feeling in the world. 🌎

Swipe for the habits of Secure Baes. Which one are you working on right now? 👇

EmotionalIntelligence LoveLanguages

02/16/2026

Standard clinical advice for a heavy week: Cry and shake some ass. Side effects may include: Feeling lighter, better glutes, and a regulated nervous system.

It’s not “mixed signals”—it’s an internal battle. ⚡️💔Being Fearful Avoidant feels like having one foot on the gas and on...
02/11/2026

It’s not “mixed signals”—it’s an internal battle. ⚡️💔

Being Fearful Avoidant feels like having one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake at all times. You want the deep, soul-level connection, but the moment you feel it, the “Danger” alarm goes off in your head.

You aren’t “toxic” and you aren’t “broken.” You just have a heart that’s trying to protect itself from a hurt it hasn’t forgotten yet. ☁️

Swipe to see the “Push-Pull” behaviors and how to start calming the storm. ➡️

02/10/2026

By 14, I already knew where I was meant to be. After seeing how the right support can completely transform a life, I realized my calling wasn’t in medicine, but in the space between two chairs.

Now, I get to pay it forward every day—honoring the past by showing up for the future. This work is for the ones we’ve lost and the ones we’re helping find their way back to joy. 🛋️✨

It’s not “independence”—it’s a deactivating strategy. 🧊🏃‍♀️If you’ve ever found yourself picking a fight over a partner’...
02/10/2026

It’s not “independence”—it’s a deactivating strategy. 🧊🏃‍♀️

If you’ve ever found yourself picking a fight over a partner’s “annoying” breathing or suddenly “getting busy” right after a great date, this one is for you.

When our avoidant attachment gets triggered, we don’t spiral “out”—we spiral “in.” We pull back, we find flaws, and we convince ourselves we don’t need anyone. It’s our way of staying safe, but it’s also how we end up lonely in a room full of people.

Swipe to see the different ways we “deactivate” to keep love at arm’s length. Let me know if you got called out in the comments 👇

AttachmentTheory InnerWork

Be honest, it’s not a “vibe”—it’s a protest behavior. 💅✨We’ve all been there: staring at the “Seen” receipt, calculating...
02/06/2026

Be honest, it’s not a “vibe”—it’s a protest behavior. 💅✨

We’ve all been there: staring at the “Seen” receipt, calculating exactly how many minutes to wait before texting back, or dropping a “maybe we just aren’t a match” because we’re dying for them to say “yes we are.”

When our anxious attachment gets triggered, our brain goes into survival mode. We start “protesting” the distance, but usually, we just end up creating more of it. 🌀

Swipe through to see the most common protest behaviors (softened up, because we’re all healing here) and how to spot them before you hit send on that 4th text.

Which one is your “guilty pleasure” when you’re spiraling?👇

AttachmentTheory HealingJourney

12/01/2025

In your 30s your best friend will text you and say,
“Wanna rent office space together?”
And the wild thing is—you’ll say yes,
not knowing that one little yes is about to stop you dead in your tracks and stop you from playing small in your career.

A year later, I’m walking through these rooms and everything in me just… softens.
A place where my work stopped being a vision board and started being a lived thing.
A place where I finally felt my career click into place, like:
Oh. This is what I’m going to be doing. HEARD.

The walls have seen the late nights, the quiet victories, the “holy crap we are really doing this” moments that hit you right in the chest.
This space held my growth without demanding I rush it.
Our office let me expand, breathe, and actually feel the business I’m building instead of just thinking about it.

I’m so proud of us.
I’m so proud of this space.
And I’m so stupidly excited for what’s next!
Follow along for more sappy s**t from your local therapist 😂

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Grief is wild because it doesn’t schedule itself. It doesn’t RSVP. It just shows up, taps you on the shoulder, and sudde...
11/17/2025

Grief is wild because it doesn’t schedule itself. It doesn’t RSVP. It just shows up, taps you on the shoulder, and suddenly you’re crying on public transit like you’re in some trendy indie film.

This story is from my sister’s first birthday after she died in 2019. I shared it then, and I’m sharing it again now, because so many of us are carrying love that no longer has a body to land on. And that love still needs somewhere to go.

If you’ve ever been ambushed by a memory…
If you’ve ever felt the air leave your lungs out of nowhere…
If you’ve ever been struck by the sweetness and brutality of what used to be—
you’re in good company here.

Loss doesn’t mean you’re broken.
It means you loved deeply.
It means your heart remembers and yearns.

And if you’re grieving while also trying to function, parent, work, dream, heal, or just… exist?
You don’t have to do that alone.

💙 If you want support navigating grief, trauma, or the way life keeps shifting under your feet, we are here. 🫶

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