JTR Counselling & Consulting

03/15/2022

10/14/2020

Crossroads is looking for a part time receptionist!

09/25/2020

"People often don’t realize they have formed a trauma bond."

08/11/2020

A brief explanation of the trauma responses

Most of us have heard of the fight, flight and freeze responses. Do you know the fourth?

04/26/2020

Working With Collective Trauma

04/18/2020

Yes

Students, colleagues and friends:

-This is why it’s been hard to focus.
-This is why it feels like it takes you twice as long to get things done.
-This is why you’ve been consumed with ensuring that you have the right “stuff” to sustain your physiological needs.
-This is why you’ve been more irritable.
-This is why you’ve been craving connection.
-This is why you’ve been feeling overwhelmed.
-This is why you’ve been physically exhausted.
-This is why you’ve been like “Oh wait, there’s a paper due?”
-This is why the idea of planning for the future is the furthest thing from your mind right now.
-This is why you only have enough mental energy to focus on the immediate.
-This is why you’ve been instinctively prioritizing self care and family.
-This is why you’ve been grasping to control what you perceive to be controllable because so much is uncontrollable and unpredictable right now.

Students, colleagues and friends:

-This is normal.
-You are not a slacker.
-You are not “crazy” (Yeah, I know we hate that word).
-You should not compare yourself to others.
-You should not buy into the narrative that you must emerge a “better person”.
-It’s ok to not be as productive - we are experiencing trauma on a global scale.
-It’s ok to “just be” and feel the way you feel about what’s happening around you and/or to you.
-It’s ok to seek help. COVID-19 is a crisis that threatens both our physical and psychological wellness.

06/15/2019

Brooke Williams, MA, LPC reflects on how her anxiety limited her experience—and how seeing a counselor changed her perspective, and her life, for the better.

05/08/2019

I do many of these to manage my own anxious thoughts

Because even the mental health experts need a little help sometimes.

04/14/2019

One of my favourites

04/13/2019

The two-year-old group draws men from various backgrounds: a 37-year-old Mormon who works as an airport gate agent, a 57-year-old married father of three, a 62-year-old retiree.

04/08/2019

Andrew Weil demonstrates a simple breathing technique he calls "the single most powerful anti-anxiety measure I've found". We don't know anyone who wouldn't benefit from it.

03/24/2019

Yes

Honoring and being direct about your own needs helps you to stay out of resentment, stress, and in presence with yourself and others. All of this can be enacted with love, respect, and kindness. ❤️

(Image via Lisa Congdon Art + Illustration)

03/11/2019

Apologizing is a great way to repair conflict in relationships. However, the way we say sorry can actually make a situation worse. Our friends at share tips on how to give a sincere apology.

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02/19/2019

02/10/2019

A few quick ideas

A quick and gentle blueprint to caring for your feelings in the moment.

(Image via Lisa Olivera Therapy, LMFT #106546)

01/28/2019

Excellent explanation of the difference between addictive pleasure (dopamine) vs happiness (serotonin) via

01/14/2019

Most human problems are rooted in dysregulation of the nervous system. Self-regulation, a goal of somatic therapy, keeps the fight/flight response in balance.

11/29/2018

Good, simple ideas!

It’s common during the holidays to be so busy with parties, presents, meals, shopping, decorating—and every other form of hoopla—that our relationships end up taking a serious hit. Our love lives are left by the wayside as we become consumed with buying the right fishing rod for Uncle Joe, pic...