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Navigating Mental Health Systems: Understanding the Mental …

WEBPolice, ‘sectioned’, hospital, Mental Health Act, ‘certified’… these terms and systems can seem overwhelming and scary, not to mention difficult to understand in a time of crisis.

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What is a Counsellor

WEBWhat Should I be Looking for in a Counsellor?This is a trickier question than you might expect. In Canada (except for Quebec), the term “counsellor” has no legal regulation around it – no required education, registration or licensing.

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Getting "Unhooked" from Troubling Thoughts

WEBIf getting hooked has become a problem, then learning to “unhook” can provide relief. In ACT, they call this “cognitive defusion” (Hayes & Smith, 2005; Harris, 2019), which refers to gaining distance from negative thoughts, images, feelings, and urges so that they become less distressing and less powerful. Imagine your thoughts are cars

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Wellness Resources for Families by Karen Peters

WEB5 Benefits of Co-Regulation. Supporting dysregulation in kids and teaching the skills to develop self-regulation over time. Challenging the myth of "being your child's calm" and inviting a more do-able approach to teaching regulation collaboratively. Great tools for parents of young children or with neurodiverse needs. Get It Now.

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When Striving to be Healthy Becomes Unhealthy

WEBLets Talk: Navigating Diet and Fitness Culture – When Striving to be Healthy Becomes Unhealthy. October 1, 2018

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Adults ThriveLife Counselling & Wellness Langley B.C.

WEBSeeking counselling can be a big step in moving out of stuck. Whether you are struggling with mental health concerns, navigating stress, relationship difficulties, difficulty with decision making or life transitions, maternity related mental health, experiencing grief or bereavement, struggling with sustaining sobriety, longing to create a strong sense of …

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Feeling “Out of It”

WEBDissociation is a disruption in our normal continuity of experience that can cause us to feel somehow separated from our own thoughts and feelings or from the external world. It is not uncommon to experience mild forms of dissociation. Many people report a sense of mental “ fog ” or “ numbness ” at some point in their lives, which is

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Counselling for ALL

WEBThrough all of this, we at ThriveLife Counselling & Wellness feel privileged to be able to walk alongside our community here in Langley, as well as our wider community of British Columbia, by offering reduced cost accessible counselling services both in-person locally, and on a broader level to any BC resident through our encrypted telehealth

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Our Services ThriveLife Counselling & Wellness Langley B.C.

WEBOur Services. At ThriveLife Counselling & Wellness, we have intentionally shaped our team to include clinicians who work in diverse areas of practice in an effort to support the diverse needs of our community. We are proud to be home to highly specialized counsellors with advanced training in their chosen area of expertise.

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ThriveLife Counselling & Wellness

WEBRecognizing the degree of need and limited accessibility to mental health support during this time, our clinic is pleased to announce that we now offer reduced cost in-person and/or telehealth counselling services. To access low cost in-person counselling in Langley, or telehealth counselling for residents within British Columbia, please click here to learn more.

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Hope as an attitude

WEBHope is an inner activity of not giving up, and a stance of persevering. Hope is an attitude, one we can adopt and often times is needed when facing the hard in life. Hope isn’t sugar coating things, or focusing on the silver lining instead of the reality being faced. Hope looks at all the possibilities, not just the obvious or stereotypical.

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Parenting Neurodivergent Kids

WEBYou might be grieving, feel disappointment, frustration, overwhelm, or fear for your child’s future. All are normal processes for parents of neurodivergent kids. We are growing alongside them, realizing we are needed in ways we hadn’t anticipated for longer than we had planned. With that comes a sense of loss or feeling trapped or restricted.

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Innovation in Trauma Therapy: OEI

WEBEssentially OEI is based on neurological principles related to how the brain stores trauma memories. When a traumatic event occurs, our brains’ “fight, flight or freeze” centre is activated and has a tendency of storing the memory in a way that lacks context, emphasizes the feeling of danger, and is disconnected from language.

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Sexual Intimacy Challenges During Pregnancy and Postpartum

WEBPhysical changes related to pregnancy, including dyspareunia/vaginal pain, decreased vaginal lubrication, urinary symptoms, fatigue, and concerns about hurting the baby are some common challenges to sexual activity during and post-pregnancy [iii]. Mode of delivery also can have an impact on sexual functioning postpartum [iv].

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Youth ThriveLife Counselling & Wellness Langley B.C.

WEBOur youth-focused counsellors work alongside teens to connect and empower. Facing challenges including bullying, self-esteem, mood concerns, stress, disordered eating, behavioural concerns including addiction risk, traumatic experiences, and so much more, our team values the difficulties facing our community’s youth.

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Our Team, Langley B.C. Counsellors

WEBInterns. Our interns are current students completing their graduate level training in counselling psychology and receive supervision from our experienced clinicians. It is thanks to our interns that we are able to offer reduced cost counselling services to those unable to access full fee support. Highly qualified clinical counselling therapists

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Courage, Compassion, and Connection: Walking Together through …

WEB2020 has been an interesting year to say the least. It began by bombarding us with a global pandemic, and continued with news of mass shootings, unjust killings, violent protests, political unrest, and mixed media messages.

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