Anxiety, Trauma & the Body
Our emotions, thoughts, relationships, and body are all deeply interconnected. Understanding how our body and stress system works is one of the first steps in managing anxiety and trauma. Anxiety is as much a physical experience in the body as it is an emotional or cognitive experience.
Understanding Addiction & the Road to Recovery
What is addiction and how do we heal? If you have experienced addiction, you are probably familiar with the feeling of being trapped and unable to stop. Addictions can feel like you are stuck in prison, in an abusive relationship or are enslaved to something. If you hate it, why is it hard to stop? Is this about the chemical component of addiction or the dopamine system in the brain, or is there more to the story?
Understanding & Healing Trauma
If you are coming to counselling to work through trauma, you are probably wondering what the roadmap to peace is. We will talk through how we understand trauma to provide an understanding of how we will work through it in counselling. How we understand what trauma is will really impact how we go about trying to heal it.
A Neuroscientific Approach to Counselling
In simple terms, our present-day emotions, thoughts, behaviours, and relationships are all impacted by our past environments and relationships in which we were immersed. These experiences then lay the blueprint in our nervous system for how we experience our present life and relationships. As counsellors, we are interested in how your past experiences are showing up in your here-and-now experience, maybe without you even noticing it.