Kaitlyn Sandher- Registered Clinical Counsellor Offering Evidence-Based In-Person Therapy

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  • Let’s Talk Toxic Positivity

    We’ve all scrolled through social media only to come across beautiful floral pictures with hashtags like good vibes only, look on the bright side, it could be worse, change your mindset, just be positive. The idea of these posts is usually to provide us with a quick burst of encouragement, positivity or motivation; however, there’s

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  • Let’s Talk Anxiety in the Body

    Did you know that when you experience the feeling of anxiety, you also experience physical symptoms? At the moment, these symptoms can feel terrifying! “Am I having a heart attack?”, “Why can’t I breathe? “Am I going to pass out?”. As uncomfortable as they are, these symptoms happen for good reasons – to prepare your

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  • Let’s Talk Guilt & Shame

    Guilt (in small amounts) is an adaptive and helpful emotion that helps us to make moral and universally acceptable decisions about our behaviour. People who feel guilt are likely to also feel empathy, compassion and understanding towards others. Guilt has a great impact not only on the self but also on our relationships. An example

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  • Let’s Talk Food & Mental Health

    Let’s talk food and your mental health Our relationship with food can be a complicated and exhausting journey. As we move through life, our experiences, culture, relationships, education, religion and more impact that relationship. We live in a society where disordered eating patterns are becoming normalized by integrating words like “cleanse”, “clean”, “detox”, “wellness”, and

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  • Let’s Talk Anger

    Let’s talk anger! The anger iceberg is a tool I use to help clients visualize anger. When you’re looking at an iceberg above water it can appear very small and simple- nothing much there; however, if you look below sea level, you realize there is much more beneath the surface. This is very much the

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  • Let’s Talk Parentification

    “That is not your job🤎”- a sentence I find myself repeating often in my therapy sessions Parentification can show up in any family, at any time, anywhere in the world. Parentification occurs when a caregiver relies on their child to support them indefinitely without sufficient reciprocity. Generally, there are two types of parentification1- Emotional Parentification-

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