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Therapy Articles & Resources

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ADHD Therapy: Practical Tools and Healing Beyond Medication

Many people navigating ADHD today are familiar with medication as a primary treatment approach. Yet therapy for ADHD offers additional transformative benefits that are very important: practical tools, emotional healing, and understanding that can fundamentally improve daily life. While medication addresses attention difficulties, therapy goes deeper—helping you learn organizational tools, understand patterns, relationships, and the emotional landscape shaped by years of living with a differently wired brain.

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Katherine Young Katherine Young

Integrating Meditation and Breathwork in Counselling

Meditation, breathwork, and awareness practices in therapy; how much can they help your process?

Many people seeking therapy today are also exploring meditation, breathwork, and other contemplative practices that bring depth and meaning to life. These ancient methods, rooted in wisdom traditions stretching back thousands of years, are part of the integrative approach offered by Head and Heart Counselling in Vancouver, BC. Find out more in the blog.

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Anxiety vs. Fear: How Counselling Gets to the Root Cause

What is anxiety and how can we root it out in counselling?

In therapy we aim not just to manage or control it, but actually settle into calmer more grounded state where we feel more consistently confident. Essentially anxiety is a symptom, not a feeling. It is an agitated state that one enters when one feels threatened. Usually the threat is either an external threat, or stemming from an internal conflict.

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Katherine Young Katherine Young

What Causes Depression? How It Forms and How Therapy Helps

Depression is a very common problem for thousands of people in the Vancouver area. There are hundreds of therapists and hundreds of different treatment modalities to choose from and frankly a lot of very partial information about how you can make the best choice.

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How Relationships Reveal Old Wounds & Attachment Patterns

Relationship Counselling and Vancouver Couples Therapy offer an invaluable opportunity to investigate unhealed wounds and undeveloped parts. Nothing reveals what needs to be worked on as well as repeated interactions with those who know us well.

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