Wellaura Counselling

12/24/2025

✨ Happy Holidays from Wellaura Counselling ✨

Wishing you a cozy, restful Christmas and a gentle close to the year.

Wellaura Counselling will be closed from December 24 – January 4,
I will be back in the office on January 5.

I can’t wait to begin 2026 with Wellaura Counselling thank you for being part of this new adventure for me!

Take good care, slow down where you can, and hold space for what you need this season ✨

With love - Amy

12/17/2025

The holidays can bring up a lot not just joy.
If this season feels heavy or overwhelming, you’re not alone, many can feel this way.

Taking care of your mental health is a strength. It’s okay to slow down, take breaks, protect your energy, and choose yourself when you need to.

12/10/2025

I’m sitting here right now feeling a bit emotional as I make this post...

Because Wellaura Counselling has been voted Silver in Therapy & Counselling, and I'm so incredibly thankful for this. This is the second year in a row I have received silver!

This one feels very different for me. This time, it was all on my own. Just me, my heart, my clients, my community, and a vision I brought to life.

Thank you to my family, friends, and the community who believes in me, trusts me, and voted for me. Wellaura Counselling is truly a part of me; as it comes from my heart and soul.

Thank you to those who have entered my office, for letting me walk beside you during some of the most difficult and vulnerable times of your life.

It’s an honor I never take lightly and thank you for helping Wellaura grow into a beautiful healing space! ✨️

11/24/2025

When you become a mother, there's a part of you that quietly wonders if you've heard that inner voice and internal questions, asking yourself, "Will I ever feel like me again?"

And let's be real, we weren't prepared for the truth. You don't just "bounce back"; you aren't the same person prior to motherhood.

What we do is slowly rebuild. Again, piece by piece, day by day, moment by moment.

You rebuild your identity, your nervous system, your confidence, your energy, and your expectations, often while running on little sleep and holding so many emotions you’ve never felt before.

If you’re in that in-between place right now the place where you’re learning how to mother and learning how to still be yourself I want you to hear this...

You’re not doing anything wrong.
You’re not behind.
You’re becoming, and you are doing an amazing job.

Motherhood is hard, and give yourself permission to grow slowly and at your own pace, to ask for support. Most importantly, you’re allowed to need space, rest, and reassurance.

You're a human while you learn how to care for a tiny human.

11/03/2025

It can feel confusing at times, you are there going through the motions, but not fully there at the same time. You love your baby, but something feels off.

You’re exhausted in a way that sleep doesn’t fix. You can’t quite name what’s wrong, other than "I just feel so tired, irritable, and short." You attribute it all to a lack of sleep, but maybe underneath that, you're feeling lost, self-doubting your abilities, wondering why others make it look easier, and what's wrong with you that you can't.

That’s the fog of postpartum depression. It distorts your reflection. It makes joy feel distant. It's quietly telling you that you’re failing when, in truth, you’re surviving.

Know that, slowly… the fog begins to lift.
Maybe it’s a morning you catch yourself smiling.

Maybe it’s realizing you made it through the day without crying.

Maybe it’s feeling the sun on your face and noticing you can actually feel it again. Soaking that moment in because that moment is hope. That moment is healing.
That moment is you coming back.

If you're in a fog, please remember: it doesn't last forever. You deserve help, rest, and support. The fog will lift, and you will find yourself again brighter, softer, and stronger than before. There are so many ways to help support yourself through that fog, whether it's talking to your doctor or counselor, starting counseling, meditating, or joining support groups. Know that you are truly never alone.

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10/28/2025

Let's learn a few therapy modalities I offer in my practice!

Using Brain-Based Therapy to help Rewire the Nervous System for Healing.
Both Flash Technique and Brainspotting are grounded in neuroscience and the brain–body connection, helping your system process stored experiences in a safe, regulated way.

Zentangles + Flash Technique
Flash Technique is a brain-based intervention developed by Philip Manfield. It uses rapid, brief attention shifts toward positive or neutral material, allowing the brain to process traumatic or distressing experiences without re-exposure. Research has shown it can lower distress levels quickly and gently, making it ideal for clients who may feel easily overwhelmed. Zentangle art adds a somatic and grounding element, engaging the parasympathetic nervous system and promoting calm.

Brainspotting
Brainspotting, a method developed by David Grand, is a focused treatment approach that utilizes specific eye positions connected to emotional and bodily activation. This technique aims to access the deep subcortical brain, which is the brain's emotional center, memory, and alarm system. By engaging with this area, Brainspotting can assist in releasing stored trauma, diminishing emotional reactivity, and enhancing nervous system regulation. This approach is supported by an increasing body of research in trauma therapy, especially for complex trauma, anxiety, and grief.

These methods engage the brain at the point where it is holding pain, offering gentle support for integration, regulation, and relief.

10/20/2025

For so long, survival might have meant staying small, over-functioning, staying alert, carrying everything on your own. Adaptations are created early in childhood and often carry through to our adulthood.

These patterns were born from places where safety wasn’t always certain, they were your armor for protection.

But now, your nervous system is allowed to learn a new way. Healing doesn’t mean rejecting the parts of you that  has protected you for so long.

You don’t have to be on guard all the time. you can take that deep breath and rest, by doing so It means giving compassion and support  to gently showing this part it’s safe to soften.

Reflection questions:
How do I know when I am activated?
What do does that part need to feel sooth or comforted?
What is one small act I can do daily to take care of myself and protective parts?

10/18/2025

All the best to Dr. Alyssa Robbins 🩷 Alyssa Dawn

10/08/2025

Sometimes the biggest shifts in therapy happen quietly and it's powerful, it's
when you realize things you’ve believed your whole life… aren’t actually true.

Because you can hold two truths at once.
You can love someone deeply and still feel hurt by them.

You can want connection and need space at the same time.

You can be grateful for your life and still wish parts of it felt lighter.

Awareness changes everything.
When you start noticing your patterns how you shut down, over-give, or brace for rejection, you begin reaponding differently.

Not everything you believe is real.
Sometimes the pain comes from a perception....
a story your mind repeats (“I’m not enough,” “They don’t care,” “I always mess things up”).

And when you start to see it for what it is a self-lie, not the truth something inside you shifts for you.

That’s the work ❤️
That’s healing.❤️

09/23/2025

Reminder!!!

Our Birth Afterthoughts Support Group starts next week, and we still have spots available!

If you know a mom who may benefit, please share. so we we can continue supporting our community. This group is such a meaningful supportive place we have created ❤️

Use the link below to register:

https://spiritedsoul.as.me/schedule/387ede72/?appointmentTypeIds[]=33214307

09/23/2025

09/12/2025

Birth Trauma is Real, and You’re Not Alone

For many parents, birth is described as the happiest day of their lives....But for others, it can be deeply overwhelming, frightening, or traumatic. Birth trauma isn’t always about what happened medically it can also be about how you felt in the moment. Women and families can feel unseen, unheard, dismissed, powerless, or afraid.

Trauma is not defined only by the event itself, but by how your body and nervous system experienced it. There are many ways it might show up afterwards. Such as flashbacks, nightmares, or replaying moments from birth. Feeling anxious or hyper-alert, needing a sense of control. Feeling or noticing emotional distance from your baby or partner.

Very common  for women to have internalized guilt and shame, or self-blame (“I should have known or said more")

If any of this resonates, please know your story matters. You dont have to carry this by yourself.  You are not alone. You are not “too sensitive.”  You don’t just forget what you went through. Your experience deserves space, compassion, and healing.

I hope you know  healing is possible. Whether through counselling, support groups, or sharing your story in safe spaces. you can begin to release the weight you carry.

Swipe right to find information out about Birth Afterthoughts.