Mental Health Counselling Halifax – Anxiety Therapy Halifax – Stress Therapy

Mental Health Counselling Halifax – Anxiety Therapy Halifax – Stress Therapy

Mindfulness-Based Counsellor & Meditation Trainer | Halifax, Nova Scotia

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  • You have a unique set of experiences, a unique knowledge base, unique privileges, and unique resources. You hold value because of this individuality, and others can learn from you. But, you are not better than anyone. The same holds true for everyone. You are simply different. You can learn from the unique experiences and knowledge base of others, too. Through open-mindedness and acceptance of the reality that we are not especially important, we remain humble. And, through our humility, our connection to others grows stronger.
  • Let go of what is popular, status-enhancing, or otherwise preferred by the majority if this is not truly you! If you are running into roadblocks or things aren’t working out in the way you’d hoped, you may have something to learn. Take a step back, reflect, and reconsider where your energy is going. Come back to what is most meaningful to you, and include the people in life who will support you on your journey.
  • Not many of my online clients get a chance to see a full view of my home therapy office, so I thought I’d share a piece of it here today! As the poet Robert Frost wrote, “the only way out is through.” I believe this is very much true when it comes to psychotherapy. Many individuals have found their way through past conditioning by working together with me through my home computer screen. So much healing, so much growth, so much deconditioning, and letting go. If meeting face-to-face is your preference, I invite you to my clinic space on Cathedral Lane in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia (2nd and 3rd photos). Now offering sessions on Wednesdays. I’m happy to share these spaces with you :)
  • “Why does paying attention in this way help? Because it is the exact antithesis to the type of ruminative thinking that makes low moods persist and return. First, mindfulness is intentional. When we are cultivating mindfulness, we can be more aware of present reality and the choices available to us. We can act with awareness. By contrast, rumination is often an automatic reaction to whatever triggers us. It is tantamount to unawareness, being lost in thought. Second, mindfulness is experiential, and it focuses directly on present-moment experience. By contrast, when we ruminate, our minds are preoccupied with thoughts and abstractions that are far away from direct sensory experience. Rumination propels our thoughts into the past or into an imagined future. Third, mindfulness is non-judgmental. Its virtue is that it allows us to see things as they actually are in the present moment and to allow them to be as they already are. By contrast, judging and evaluating are integral to rumination and the entire doing mode. Judgments of any sort […] imply that we or the things around us have to measure up in some way to an internal or external standard. The habit of judging ourselves severely disguises itself as an attempt to help us live better lives and to be better people, but in actuality the habit of judging winds up functioning as an irrational tyrant that can never be satisfied.” From “The Mindful Way through Depression” by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn.
  • “Our culture encourages us to develop our thinking capacity from a young age, so much so that thinking spills over into everything we do. We have lost the ability to turn the thoughts off, and as a result we lose touch with the immediacy of the present. Fortunately, our minds are like a muscle that can be trained and developed. The more we release our fascination with our thoughts and instead train ourselves to inhabit our bodies and our senses, the more able we will be to be present and fully wake up to the beauty and aliveness of both our inner and outer worlds.
  • Do you feel wound up or have trouble focusing on tasks? Do you feel tired, but wired, exhausted from racing thoughts but unable to fall asleep? Are you worried about your finances, your loved ones, your relationships, or your job? Are you afraid of going out in public places, or how you might be perceived by others? Do you feel nervous, shaky, sweaty, or experience dizziness or shortness of breath? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, you may be experiencing anxiety. You are not alone, and you don’t have to continue suffering. Psychotherapy is an effective treatment for anxiety disorders. I have witnessed many individuals transform from paralysis to action in various domains of life through our counselling work together. There are several types of anxiety, but the most common are outlined in my article, “The Faces of Anxiety: Which One is Yours?” Read the full article on my website under
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