Art Therapy: Integrating Emotions through Creative Expression
In this article, Arbour Counselling therapist Joan Dosso shares a personal experience of art therapy that helped her integrate and...
How To Get The Most Out Of Counselling: Journalling Between Sessions
Do you ever come out of a counselling session stoked with ideas, or sniffling with sadness, feeling you have a lot to think about but by...
Embracing Sadness and Hope: The Amaryllis Bulb’s Lessons for Christmas
The gift of Amaryllis Each year, at the start of December, I gift my mother an amaryllis bulb as an early Christmas present that she can...
Internal Family Systems Meets Sand Tray
How can internal family systems and sand tray therapy work together to bring us a greater understanding of ourselves? In this post,...
Internal Family Systems: Playing on the Same Team with Yourself
As a therapist, I’m always looking for new ways to think about how people think and for metaphors that will help clients understand...
Navigating the Fog of Change
When I moved to snow-bound Edmonton, I would sometimes play a little game with myself while I was out walking. I would find an open space...