Rather than feeling better, practice getting better at feeling.

The #GoC with @camhnews are proud to announce the launch of 9-8-8: Suicide Crisis Helpline across the country. This easy-to-remember number will connect anyone in Canada to free 24/7 #SuicidePrevention support by phone and text. ow.ly/CP4350QcSwe #988Canada

The launch of #988Canada is a major step in improving access to #SuicidePrevention Call or text 9-8-8 to reach a trained responder who will listen and provide trauma-informed support. It’s a safe space to seek help anywhere, anytime.

Here’s an article I wrote recently, drawing on knowledge of the literature, collaborative clinical work with patients, and lived experience. There is hope. 🤍 And I hope this article helps someone. ONPsychologicalAssn CMHA York Region & South Simcoe #hope #depression #mentalhealth cmha-yr.on.ca/10-ways-to-fin…

“Neither I (nor anyone else) can tell in advance exactly how many sessions [a patient] will need, and this isn’t because I’m inexperienced or unscientific but because I have 30 years of experience & value a scientific approach, which means: I don’t make stuff up” —Norman Doidge

Since it's First Responders Day, no better time than to announce that I will once again be riding to raise money for the Wounded Warriors Ride for Mental Health this August! If you'd like to help me support this great cause, please consider making a donation.

“Everything good is costly, and the development of character is one of the most costly of all. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty” 🧵

1/ “The initial sessions should focus on developing a shared understanding of what is really the matter—an understanding that makes sense to both of you. ‘What is really the matter' is not your depression or anxiety or eating disorder; it is what is going psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psycho…

4/4 "I think in this culture we don't have the notion that feeling the whole range of affects, including anger, envy, shame...is part of health. Mental health is not always feeling great. It's being able to tolerate pain." - Nancy McWilliams podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/epi…

Deep emotion cannot be reasoned away any more than it can be reasoned into being Try reasoning your way into love, passion, desire. Let me know whow it goes Only someone massively defensed against emotional life could possibly buy into the idea that reason is master of emotion

As a therapist, one of my primary goals has been to shift my clients’ experience of anxiety from an unconscious trigger resulting in avoidance into a conscious cue for curiosity and exploration…In this way, anxiety becomes woven into a conscious narrative. - Louis Cozolino

Today, the Ontario Government formally announced that CMHA York Region & South Simcoe will be the lead agency to connect more people to mental health care and supports in York Region through the York Region Mental Health Community Care Hub. Read more: cmha-yr.on.ca/about-us/hub-p…

“It is so much easier for [traumatized patients] to talk about what has been done to them—to tell a story of victimization and revenge—than to notice, feel, and put into words the reality of their internal experience” —Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score

2/ I’ll add it's often fairly easy to tell who has benefited from meaningful psychotherapy and who has not. Those caught in what vdK calls the “story of victimization and revenge” have not. Those able to reflect on their experience in more complex and nuanced ways, in the context

3/ of a larger integrated narrative of the arc of their lives, have It absolutely breaks my heart that we have “therapists” whose approach to trauma reinforces the former instead of helping patients work toward the latter (Let the outpouring of Twitter hate begin)

👉LAST WEEK FOR EARLY BIRD PRICE Zoom workshop Two half-days, September 6-7, 11am EDT for therapists of all experience levels ⚡️Personality Styles in Psychotherapy: A roadmap for Deep and Lasting Change⚡️ X friends: additional 10% off w code Shedler10 pcpsi.ie/event/personal…

Training in psychotherapy begins in earnest when it finally sinks in that giving advice doesn't help And it sinks in that common-sense solutions haven’t helped and won’t help now Meaningful psychotherapy is not an extension of common sense. It is something else entirely.

Attuned listening requires that we listen to the story line and 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 to what 𝘸𝘦’𝘳𝘦 experiencing while in this person’s presence. - Teri Quatman

1/ Pro tips for therapists🧵 At first appointment with a new patient/client, there are three things you want to find out 1️⃣ What's wrong? 2️⃣ How are they hoping therapy can help? 3️⃣ Why now? Some elaboration on these 3 things... ➡️ People don't come to therapy for sport. They

In every transformative therapy, there is a period when the patient may feel more lost than ever. They are relinquishing old ways of being and have not yet consolidated new ways We are changing life patterns. There is no path from point A to point B that does not traverse the