Calvin Black Counselling

06/19/2025

8 years as a part of the Arbour Counselling Centre and it has been wonderful to learn from this amazing group of counsellors.

✨ Meet Calvin ✨

Calvin Black is a registered Clinical Counsellor with extensive experience working with children, youth, adults, and couples. Specializing in helping men overcome anxiety, depression, and past trauma, he uses Narrative Therapy to guide clients toward new perspectives and self-understanding.💡

With a warm, curious presence, Calvin helps clients reframe their stories and create empowering narratives. 📖 Ready to rewrite your story? Book a session with Calvin today and start your journey towards a fresh perspective. 🌱

Read more about Calvin here:
https://www.arbourcounselling.ca/meet-calvin

09/20/2024

Here's a recent article I wrote on Narrative Therapy and externalization:

In this article, Arbour Therapist Calvin Black explains how Narrative Therapists use externalization to separate people from problems

09/05/2024

So blessed to be able to work out of this space with kind and experienced counsellors.

07/21/2023

Shame makes us feel like no one will understand but supportive empathy can help us break through the silence.

In this post Arbour Therapist, Calvin Black writes about how empathy and self-compassion can help us break through the silence of shame.

07/20/2022

Nurturing a positive mindset involves noticing the way that we explain events. Here's my latest post on the Arbour Counselling Blog:

Many of us wake up wondering how we are going to make it through the next day. We view our work and responsibilities as a necessary evil to endure so that we can afford the costs of living. We have difficulty moving beyond negative events that we've experienced that cloud over the many positive thin...

03/19/2022

In the latest Arbour Counselling post, my colleague Joy Gillett explains the concept of differentiation and why it is so important for relationships.

In this post, Arbour Counselling Therapist Joy Gillet explains the concept of Differentiation and why it is so important for Relationships.

01/01/2022

Creating positive change involves getting clarity on what's important, being resilient when facing challenges, and having support. What are you looking to change in 2022?

As we head into the new year, many of us imagine making positive changes to our lives: "This year I'm going to lose weight, exercise more, go back to school, be a better partner, and practice piano every day." A fresh new year gives us a reset point that psychologically draws us into thinking about....

05/12/2021

There's a lot of talk about the importance of vulnerability these days. In this article, my colleague, Joel Durkovic, shares how it is one of the fundamentals of relationships.

In this article, Joel Durkovic of Arbour Counselling Centre writes about leaning into vulnerability in order to grow in your relationship.

03/05/2021

Understanding can bring healing, but we can't understand unless we are really listening.

by Calvin Black Some couples come to counselling because their relationship is on life-support. So much damage has been caused by toxic ways of communicating, dismissing each other, extra-marital relationships, or harbouring contempt for each other that little hope remains for rebuilding the relatio...

02/20/2020

Check out the new revamped arbour counselling website and blog:

Children experience life unfiltered. Their emotions can appear fast and furious, then switch suddenly. Our children learn how to handle their difficult feelings

06/13/2019

Va**ng and e-cigs may be safer than cigarette smoking but not safe enough. Delivering hundreds of times the ni****ne and exposure to other harmful substances may set teens up for greater anxiety, addictions, and health problems. Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin suggests that now is the time for stricter regulations and public education on the effects of va**ng.

E-cigarettes and vapes have exploded in popularity in the last decade, especially among youth and young adults -- from 2011 to 2015, e-cigarette use among high school students in the US increased by 900 percent. Biobehavioral scientist Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin explains what you're actually inhaling w...