While therapy has many benefits to individual well-being, it can improve relationships as well. Whether or not you attend with your partner, the skills learned from counselling can have an effect on others in your life.
The DSM-5-TR defines narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) as an individual with a persistent need for admiration, a lack of empathy and an unrealistic air of superiority. These symptoms can have a deep impact on relationships.
When a child falls ill—whether it’s a temporary sickness or a chronic condition—the impact extends far beyond the child. Parents often bear the emotional, mental, and even physical weight of their child’s illness, experiencing heightened stress, anxiety, and even depression. The uncertainty surrounding a child’s health can be overwhelming, leaving parents feeling helpless, exhausted, and…
Traditional models of attachment theory demonstrate a study that was done in 1978 by Mary Ainsworth called the “Strange Situation”. In this experiment, a mother and child were put into a room where another person was present, referred to as the “stranger” and the mother was asked to then leave the room and leave their…
Mental paradoxes are a psychological phenomenon that occurs when a child tries to get certain needs to be met on a repetitive basis, however the parent or caregiver is unable to give the consistent response that the child is wanting. This process of “serve and return” exists in all parent child relationships and from…
If an adult has not been taught optimal communication from their family of origin, the concept of pseudo-mutuality is common. Pseudo-mutuality can be defined as a pattern of ignoring topics of conversation and burying them, rather than addressing them. It also indicates the desire to maintain an external image, rather than deal with any sort…
Childhood trauma can be extremely impactful on neurodevelopment and can have lasting effects on mental health during developmental years into adulthood. For nearly two decades now, professor of Psychiatry at the Boston University Medical School, Bessel van der Kolk, has been an advocate for the inclusion of Development Trauma Disorder to the Diagnostic and Statistical…
Childhood trauma can be extremely impactful on neurodevelopment and can have lasting effects on mental health during developmental years into adulthood. For nearly two decades now, professor of Psychiatry at the Boston University Medical School, Bessel van der Kolk, has been an advocate for the inclusion of Development Trauma Disorder to the Diagnostic and Statistical…
Do opposites really attract or do you find that your partner is almost a mirror image of yourself? When we think we’ve finally found the ‘one’ yet we considers them an opposite, this perhaps means they have opposing strengths. For example, when Jane and John first meet they realize they both have similar…
What do you think of love? What does love mean to you in it’s purest form? Many of us do not think about defining love, yet we spend our lives searching for a partner who will love us. We yearn for ‘true love’ yet, some of us spend our entire lives never experiencing what this…
Hurt, fear frustration.
The brain loves to self-heal, both consciously and subconsciously. Our childhood experiences do have a large impact on our relationships later in live, whether you are open to believing this or not. Aside from what you store in your conscious mind (ie. day to day working memory), your subconscious mind…
Childhood trauma can be extremely impactful on neurodevelopment and can have lasting effects on mental health during developmental years into adulthood. For nearly two decades now, professor of Psychiatry at the Boston University Medical School, Bessel van der Kolk, has been an advocate for the inclusion of Development Trauma Disorder to the Diagnostic and Statistical…