Affirming, evidence-based therapy is available and effective approaches include LGBTQ+-affirmative CBT, trauma-informed care, emotion regulation skills, and strengthening community and social support. Click to read more.

Our experiences can leave us with trauma and the affects can alter our memories, body and nervous system. Present-day events can trigger intense emotional and physical reactions that may feel confusing or overwhelming. Healing is not meant to happen in isolation.

Our anxiety can become heightened during political, social, economic and global conflict. How can we keep perspective when our bodies experience this? Let’s talk about it.

For a long time, same-sex relationships have been shunned, looked down upon, and outright banned. Those of the LGBTQ+ community have long felt too afraid to be their true selves and have hidden away their thoughts and feelings out of fear of how they would be perceived or treated by others.

The earliest trick we learn in life is how to ask for help, and that’s through tears. Infants don’t only cry when they’re hungry. Sometimes, they want warmth, closeness, social attention, safety reassurance, and other emotional reassurance.

Eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR) has become increasingly popular over the last few years. It’s a safe, effective, and unique form of therapy that can be especially helpful for people who have experienced trauma.

Our over-reliance on technology and social media seems to be causing an anxiety crisis. Why does life in the digital age make us feel so anxious and stressed? Let’s dig into a few possibilities.