Journal & Insights
Reflections on nature-based therapy, somatic healing, and finding your way back to yourself.
Highly Sensitive and Deeply Feeling: Making Sense of a Nervous System That Notices Everything
What if your sensitivity is not a flaw to be managed, but a way of being wired that has its own intelligence — and its own care needs?
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Grief Doesn't Follow a Map: Honouring Loss at Your Own Pace
Grief is not a staircase you climb. It is a landscape you learn to live in. If you are months or even years past a loss and still find it surfacing, there is nothing wrong with you.
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The Quiet Power of Doing Less: Rest as a Radical Act for the Chronically Busy
If you are quietly tired — of holding everything together, of being the one everyone leans on — this is an invitation to consider that doing less might be one of the most healing things you can do.
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Ceremony as Medicine: Small Rituals to Mark Change and Find Belonging
Modern life is strangely smooth. We slide from one chapter to the next without pausing to mark the passage. This is the quiet wisdom of ceremony: that marking a threshold helps us cross it whole.
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Come As You Are: What It Really Means to Begin Therapy Exactly Where You Are
You do not need the right words, a clear story, or a tidy summary of what is wrong. Therapy can begin exactly where you are standing.
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Self-Led Parenting: Bringing Calm and Curiosity to the Hard Moments with Your Kids
Parenting has a way of finding our tender places. Self-led parenting means noticing when a part of you has taken over — and gently coming back to calm.
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The Myth of the Perfect Summer: Tending Your Mental Health When the Pressure Is to Be Happy
Summer arrives with a particular kind of expectation. And yet, for many people, summer can quietly become one of the harder stretches of the year.
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The Web of Life Includes You: Reclaiming Belonging in a Disconnected World
Many of us move through the natural world as visitors. Yet some quiet part of us suspects there is more available. That we, too, belong to the living world.
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How Animals Help Us Know Ourselves Better
There is something quietly profound about being in relationship with animals. Whether it is a dog who senses our sadness before we say a word, a cat who curls beside us when we are overwhelmed, or even watching birds move through the trees on a difficult day — animals often invite us into a different kind of presence.
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Mindfulness-based Counselling with Vanya Laporte
Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or feel overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.
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A Guide to the Best Trails for Reflection and Healing Near Victoria, BC
There is a kind of medicine you can only find on foot. Here is a gentle guide to some of the most reflective walking spots near Victoria.
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What Slowing Down in Therapy Actually Means
“Slowing down” is a phrase often used in therapy spaces, but many people are not entirely sure what it actually means.
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What is Somatic Counselling?
The word somatic has become a buzz word as scientific studies confirm that somatic therapies are highly effective in treating symptoms and conditions...
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Meet Your Inner Protector: A Gentle Introduction to Internal Family Systems
If you have ever wondered why you cannot just decide to feel different, Internal Family Systems therapy may offer a new doorway.
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What Actually Happens in an Outdoor Counselling Session at Elk/Beaver Lake
A gentle walk through what to expect when we take therapy out of the office and onto the trails.
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Grief and Loss
Grief is often a neglected topic and a misunderstood emotion in our society. It has become part of our life that gets swept under the rug...
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