“Work will never love you back.” My friend shared this sage aphorism with me, and my knee jerk response was defensive: of course my work loves me back. My colleagues are talented professionals I respect and admire, and the administrative team supports us with warmth, authenticity, and that seamless sense of safety. When I wonder how to handle something, they are always right there, the situation handled with grace and aplomb. I feel respected and beloved. … Wait, what was that noise? Did you hear a screeching of brakes?

Navigating life with a chronic illness often unfolds in phases. The search for a diagnosis – a rollercoaster of hope and fear, denial and disbelief – usually comes first. Once diagnosed, the initial adjustment to life with this disease and its treatment gets underway. Then, with any luck at all, there’s the stable (ish) phase of just plain getting on with it – life in the new normal. Let’s take a closer look at each of these phases.

However, CBT is much more than simply the power of positive thinking. This approach to therapy has been used for decades and has been well studied. CBT is effective, sometimes even more effective than other modalities. Explaining and demonstrating what CBT looks like in a therapy context is a bit beyond the scope of one blog post, but we can take a closer look at one piece of this work by exploring what have been called “thinking errors” or cognitive distortions.

How to apologize is a skill that can be learned, both in terms of general “dos and don’ts” and specific building blocks of a thorough and healing apology. Apologizing so carefully may feel uncomfortably scripted at first, especially if you’re unaccustomed to being this mindful and accurate with words. With practice, it gets easier.

The fusion of VR and Mind-Body Therapies is proving to be a formidable force in the field of mental health, redefining the contours of therapeutic interventions.

MBT-C is a ground-breaking, research-backed intervention is centered on amplifying the mentalizing abilities of children and their families, cultivating emotional resilience, and nurturing healthy interpersonal dynamics.

A crucial component of this evolution is the increasing recognition of mind-body therapies in the realm of workplace wellness initiatives.

Research is ongoing, studies are promising, and holistic treatment plans for children are becoming mainstream, and appear particularly promising in the areas of childhood anxiety, emotional dysregulation, impulsivity and even pain.

Traditionally deemed as alternative or peripheral, practices like mindfulness, yoga, biofeedback, and the like are now securing a place in conventional healthcare settings.

These therapy methods can play a crucial role in helping children and adolescents establish healthy habits and attitudes that have a lifelong impact on them as they grow.

Mind-body therapies constitute a diverse array of practices, such as meditation, yoga, and biofeedback. These practices are gaining increasing acknowledgment for their effectiveness in pain management.

EMDR is a unique form of psychotherapy designed to assist individuals in processing and resolving traumatic memories. Emerging research indicates the potential benefits of EMDR for those with mood disorders, particularly when trauma plays a role in the onset or worsening of symptoms.

This groundbreaking approach to therapy underlines the enhancement of the child-parent relationship as a conduit for bolstering the child's emotional, social, and cognitive development.

Hypnotherapy may seem unconventional but it is an effective and gentle therapeutic approach for addressing a range of physical and emotional concerns and can be used to complement traditional treatments.

Ketamine, a potent therapeutic tool, has gained increasing prominence in the realm of mental health treatment. Yet, it is often obscured by a veil of misconceptions and misinterpretations.

Ketamine, a potent therapeutic tool, has gained increasing prominence in the realm of mental health treatment. Yet, it is often obscured by a veil of misconceptions and misinterpretations.

In this final piece of our series, we invite you to explore how ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) sessions are set up.

In the fifth part of our series, we turn our attention to the effectiveness, and risks of ketamine for mental health. 

This fourth installment examines the considerable benefits of ketamine, namely, its capacity to yield rapid symptom relief and engender enduring changes in mental health.

In the previous blog posts of this series, we introduced ketamine and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) and explored the science behind its unique mechanism of action. In this third blog, we will discuss the multiple mental health conditions that ketamine has been shown to treat effectively