We Are All Connected: Counselling, Relationship, and Reconciliation
A reflection for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on counselling, cultural humility, relationship, truth, and repair.
Mental Health Insights
How Counselling Helps With Depression
What depression really feels like, why "trying harder" rarely works, and how counselling helps, in plain, compassionate language from Langley RCCs.
What Is Supervision of Supervision? A Guide for Clinical Supervisors
Who supports the supervisor? What supervision of supervision is, why supervisors need their own reflective space, and the group and individual options at Lavender Counselling.
Pride and the Healing Power of Belonging
Legal rights are not the same as belonging. Counsellor Heidi Maxwell reflects on Pride, visibility, and how being truly seen and accepted is part of how we heal.
Why Insight Alone Does Not Always Shift Chronic Stress
You may understand what is happening intellectually, but still find that your body reacts before you have time to think, or that the same patterns keep showing up in your relationships, your stress responses, or your sense of overwhelm.
The Rules We Carry
Why we wait until we break down to ask for help Many people do not avoid support because their distress is not…
When Someone You Love Is Considering MAID: Understanding the Complexity of End-of-Life Decisions
There are moments in life that ask more of us than we feel prepared to give. For some individuals and families, the…
Honouring National First Responders Day in Canada: A Reflection on the Unseen Burden
A few weeks ago, I had a medical emergency in my home. I remember feeling scared and confused, unsure whether my loved…
When the Future You Imagined Changes: Living with Childlessness After Infertility
There is a point, for some, where the question is no longer about what to try next. It becomes something else. A…