Insights
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Starting Counselling
Our Approach
Neurodiversity
Life Transitions
Burnout & Direction
Stress, Anxiety & Emotion Regulation
Couples & Relationships
- Why Does Being a Good Partner Feel Harder Than It Used to Be?
- The Era of High-Aspiration Relationships
- Relationship Breakdown & Life Restructuring Counselling
- Constant Small Arguments in Relationships
- Resentment in Relationships
- Couples Counselling Vancouver
- What Really Happens in Your First EFT Couples Session
- The Art of Arguing, Part I
- The Art of Arguing, Part II
- The Art of Arguing, Part III
- The Art of Arguing, Part IV
- The Art of Arguing, Part V
Men’s Counselling
Latest & Foundation Articles
- What Is the Best Trauma Therapy Modality?
- Hypervigilance and Anxiety: Competent People Often Cope Through Activation, Not Withdrawal
- Why Life Transitions Can Leave You Feeling Constantly On Alert
- What Is Somatic Therapy?
- Hypervigilance, Global Affairs & Student Anxiety | Nightingale Counselling
- What Is Hypervigilance?
- Why Your First Conversation Isn’t With Your Therapist
- Beyond Feeling Better: How Therapy Continues to Evolve
- Why Insight Isn’t the Finish Line
- How Do I Know If Therapy Is Actually Working?
- Why the First Four Hours of Therapy May Be the Most Important
- Perfectionism and the Life You Keep Postponing
- When the Perfect Partner Never Feels Truly Loved | Nightingale Counselling
- What is Perfectionism?
Relationships, Attachment & Family
- Couples Counselling Vancouver
- Can Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Truly Improve Your Relationship? A Guide for Couples
- 7 Emotional Patterns That Signal It’s Time for Help
- Doing death when you’ve never done death
- The art of arguing, part III: how can individuals distinguish between assertiveness and aggression during arguments?
- Relationship advice on the eve of Valentine’s Day
- Boundaries Part II: Boundaries with Individuals, Couples, and Families
- Boundaries, Part I: Next Level Boundary Setting
- Avoidant attachment
- Insights, Part II – A Left Brain World
Anxiety, Trauma & Emotional Health
- Stress and Anxiety Counselling in Vancouver
- New Research – Why “Venting” May Not Reduce Stress And What That Means for Therapy
- Imposter syndrome
- Healthy Emotional Life
- What to do about low motivation?
- High Functioning Anxiety
- Misery does not equal trauma
- Insights, Part III – Recognizing Stress
- Covid-19 Stress Infographic
- The “Stress Container” Explained, Part II
- The “Stress Container” Explained, Part I
Clinical Ideas & Archive
- ADHD-Curious: When Attention Becomes the Explanation
- How Progress Is Reviewed in Counselling
- Institutional Clinic
- Neurodiversity and the Problem of Functioning
- Men’s Counselling in Vancouver
- Internal Family Systems Therapy in Vancouver
- Unpacking the controversy: A closer look at the arguments surrounding ADHD diagnosis
- A dream is a wish your [neurons and/or unconscious] makes
- Exploring Diagnosis and Normalization
- Antipsychiatry and Depathologization in Cormac McCarthy’s Stella Maris
- Insights, Part IV – Information and Denial
- Insights Afforded by Therapy – Part I, Introduction
- How do Counsellors Help? Part IV – Healing the “Hard-Wired” Brain
- How do Counsellors Help? Part III – Confirmation Bias
- How do Counsellors Help? Part II – Therapeutic Experience