What Resilience Therapy Actually Means in Systems Not Built for You
Why “Resilience” Feels Different When the System Is the Problem Resilience therapy often gets talked about as if everyone is starting from the same place. As if the conditions shaping your life are neutral. As if effort is evenly rewarded. As if exhaustion means you mismanaged something, rather than survived something. For many people, especially […]
Job Burnout Recovery When You Can’t Just Quit
When “Just Leave” Isn’t an Option Job burnout recovery advice often assumes an escape hatch. Quit the job. Take a sabbatical. Follow your values somewhere else. Choose yourself. For some people, that is possible. For many others, it is not. Leaving may mean losing health coverage. Income. Immigration stability. Professional standing. Safety. Sometimes the job […]
Resilience Therapy: Building Capacity Without Toxic Positivity
Why “Resilience” Has Started to Feel Like a Bad Word Somewhere along the way, resilience therapy stopped being about survival and started being about compliance. Resilience became a word people reached for when they wanted you to absorb more without asking for less. A compliment that landed like a demand. A way of saying keep […]
Burnout Counselling: Start Here When Exhaustion Isn’t the Problem
People arrive at burnout counselling for different reasons. Some come because work has hollowed them out.Some because rest stopped working.Some because they can’t tell whether what they’re feeling is burnout or depression.Some because they’ve been coping for so long they no longer know what it would mean not to. Burnout is often framed as an […]
Vision Boards Don’t Work. Becoming Boards Do.
Why vision boards stop working Vision boards are quiet promises we make to ourselves in moments of hope.They gather images of calm mornings, spacious homes, softer bodies, clearer lives.They say: this is where I am going. And for a moment, that feels like relief. Then the week starts.The body tightens.The old reflexes take the wheel.The […]
Finding Purpose in Pain: Therapy for Athletes Coping with Injury or Chronic Pain
Pain changes us, not just our bodies, but our identity, our relationships, and our sense of possibility. As both a lifelong athlete and a counsellor who supports clients navigating injury, recovery, and chronic pain, I’ve learned that pain isn’t just a physical event. It affects our relationships, our routines, our mental health, and our sense […]
What if Time Can’t Be Wasted? Time Anxiety & Reclaiming Time
Before You Rush Ahead: Let 2025 Breathe It’s that season again—vision boards, resolutions, and declarations that “2026 will be my year.” It’s tempting to treat the year we just lived as a prelude, something to move past quickly. But 2025 wasn’t a placeholder in your story. It was made up of genuine effort, subtle changes, […]
Burnout Therapy: Responses to Systemic Injustice
This article explores burnout not as an individual failing, but as a predictable response to witnessing injustice within oppressive systems in our work. Drawing on Vikki Reynolds‘ “Zone of Fabulousness” framework and Gabes Torres‘ oscillation model, we’ll explore how to stay connected to our clients and our ethics while honouring our natural rhythms of engagement […]
I couldn’t sleep so I cancelled Spotify – An anti-oppressive therapist’s imperfect alignment
There’s a particular quality to sleeplessness that I’ve come to recognize. Not the anxious kind that has you rehearsing conversations or catastrophizing about tomorrow. Not the physical kind where your body simply won’t settle. This was the liminal kind—the kind where you exist in the space between waking and dreaming, too conscious for rest but […]
A Call for Community: AI & Mental Health
Table of Contents Recently, I came across a podcast on AI and mental health that really spoke to some of the trends we’ve been seeing in our work, and a weariness for what is happening to the state of community and beingness. The conversation lingered with me for days, not because it introduced anything that […]