Calgary Therapy Institute

12/22/2025

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12/18/2025

The holidays are can be a free for all for unwelcome comments. Let’s prepare ahead of time by exploring shame and boundaries 🗯️✋🏽

12/15/2025

Feeling nervous before your first therapy session is a common experience. Here are a few things you can expect 🌻

12/08/2025

Catching yourself in a thought spiral? Here are a few ideas to try 💡

11/24/2025

Did you know children with ADHD are more likely to have additional mental health diagnoses?

Having a comprehensive understanding of your child is important for informing treatment, school support plans, and therapy 🧠 ✨

11/20/2025

Preschool
• Asking repetitive questions abut the death
• Headaches or stomach aches
• Increase in clinginess
• Changes in sleep
• Cycling between forgetting and remembering the person who died

School Aged
• Difficulties in school
• Nightmares
• Anger or anxiety, or denying feeling emotions
• Questions about what happens to the body
• Increase in tiredness
• Worry for other’s health and wellbeing
• Headaches or stomach aches
• Guilt towards the death

Teens
• Withdrawal
• Sadness, anger, guilt, irritability, worry
• Risk taking behaviours
• Changes in sleeping and eating
• Difficulty concentrating
• Questions about life, death, and purpose

11/20/2025

Today is UNICEF's global day of action for children, marking the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
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11/17/2025

Why Do Kids Bully?

11/12/2025

11/10/2025

From the desk of Dr. Miller:

Today I am writing to acknowledge those who have and do serve this country. Tomorrow is Remembrance Day- and today, I write to share my thoughts on the burden of this work, I have done on behalf of those who have served, and those who love those, who have and/or are serving.

We must never forget this beautiful country- which has been protected by military personal, who serve and have served. Many hours of my clinical practice have been developed in relation to supporting those who carry the psychological burden and weight of that service. Today, I write to honour those stories, and recognize your bravery, and suffering. My mind has travelled through many operations, wars, loses and victories. Know the honour is mine to be in the privilege of your work, and to be walking on the land of this country- with safety, and the freedom we have.

Thank-you for your service, the dedication and the burden you carry. You are not alone- and tomorrow is a day we nationally recognize the weight of the work done, while knowing the work is never done- as we fight for our beautiful country, called Canada.❤️

11/07/2025

Play uses a number of different mediums. Check out what Emily, our play- based therapist, uses most often 🧸🎨🎭