Therapeutic Success or Failure – 2 Main Factors

It’s All Your Fault     In my Toronto therapy practice I want to help people.  They suffer with chronic depression, anxiety issues, relationship problems and addiction struggles to name a few.  Some people make positive changes. Others are unable. What makes the...

Emotional Abuse – The Hidden Abuse

I refer to emotional abuse as ‘hidden’ because it is given far less recognition than other forms of abuse, such as physical or sexual. The victim is often blamed. They are “oversensitive” and basically not able to “take it, like other people do”. What is Emotional...

BEWARE of the Narcissist!

In my work as a Toronto therapist I have met many victims of narcissists. They are children, mates, employees, or friends of narcissists. They bear the scars: depression symptoms, anxiety attacks, self-esteem struggles and anger issues, to name a few. What is a...

Why It Is Important to Understand Our Past

  “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”  George Santayana Ellen literally stood up and screamed at me, “Don’t try to tell me I’m just some kind of little baby who hasn’t grown up.” In a way she hadn’t grown up. A childhood trauma...

We Heal From The Inside Out

How Our Emptiness is Created As a Toronto therapist I encounter people complaining of feeling empty.   We live in a society that constantly dangles new ‘things’ in front of us: phones, computers, clothes, furniture etc, etc. etc. . We have to have the latest and best....