Jen Burt, Counselling & Art Therapy

12/08/2025

There can be similarities between an anxiety attack and a panic attack, not least because people sometimes use the terms interchangeably. While some symptoms can overlap between the two, how they start, how long they last, and their intensities can look very different.

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12/06/2025

DON'T BE AFRAID- YOU CAN DRIVE TO COMOX AGAIN!! 🚗👍

That is correct, after months of dodging detours and wondering when it will end, you can NOW drive straight along the D**e, up the hill and straight towards the Church St. Taphouse. Hallelujah!!

Comox is easily accessible and features not one, but TWO fresh roundabouts- and we can report that it's a smooth ride all the way back into downtown Comox!

A massive thank-you to all the guests who powered through the construction mayhem to visit us over the last few months. You kept us going and we are grateful, thankful, and stoked that you made the journey.

Now that the road is clear, come on by- we're celebrating with new food on the menu and an always epic craft beer lineup. Easy access to Comox is also thankfully back on the menu so show Comox some love Comox Valley! ❤️❤️🤟

12/05/2025

✨ Milner Christmas Magic returns December 4th-7th, 11th-14th, and 18th-21st!

🕰️ Admission runs from 5:00pm-8:00pm with viewing until 8:30pm.

🎟️ Admission is by donation, suggested at 8/Adult, $4/Child, or $20/Household.

☕️ Coffee trucks, One Cool Cookie or Grouchy Goat Coffee, will be located in the parking lot every day of the event.

🍪 Hot food and beverages will be available at our outdoor food service tent near Milner House. The Camellia Tea Room and Milner House will not be open.

🎁 Charming holiday gifts and decor items will be on sale in the Gingerbread Gift Shop.

🎶 Festive musical performances will be held on December 4th, 11th, 13th and 18th.

📖 Christmas stories will be read on December 5th, 6th, 7th, 12th, 14th, 19th, 20th and 21st.

🎄Enhance your visitor experience with a pair of Holiday Specs - holographic glasses that transform lights into magical holiday figures.

🚌 Free shuttle bus service will be running return trips from the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre to Milner Gardens between 4:40pm-8:50pm. (Saturdays & Sundays only)

🦽The Light Walk is wheelchair, walker and stroller accessible. If accessible parking is not available, a safe drop-off/pick-up zone is located above the Welcome Centre. Three accessible washrooms are located throughout the Gardens.

🦮 Only certified service dogs are permitted onsite.

12/03/2025

11/29/2025

What a week !! Thanks for the 💓 and patience as I’ve been managing a family emergency in CR this week. I appreciate thoughtful clients rescheduling.

THERAPISTS AREN’T SUPPOSED TO DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFO (so our clients don’t worry about their helping professionals = boundaries). In Reality / media SOME LEVEL OF SELF DISCLOSURE REVEALS THAT THERAPISTS ARE HUMAN AND WORKS IN PROGRESS, not superheroes.

When a therapist cancels an apt ~ it’s to ensure that we are doing the same work we ask clients to do and ADDITIONALLY bring our calm, regulated, educated & focussed selves back to work.

🤙 We are all working on something. Therapy will help.

11/24/2025

This time of year can get so loud that it’s easy to forget what actually matters. It’s not the gifts or the pressure to make everything perfect. It’s the people you get to sit beside. That’s what you’ll remember years from now.

11/22/2025

Frida Kahlo just made history. Her 1940 self-portrait “El sueño (La cama)” sold for $54.7 million at Sotheby’s, officially becoming the most expensive artwork by a woman ever sold at auction. The previous record was held by Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1,” which sold for $44.4 million in 2014.

Painted during a turbulent chapter in her life, shortly after her divorce, remarriage, and the assassination of a former lover, the work is considered one of Kahlo’s most "psychologically charged." Its value has also skyrocketed since it first appeared at auction in 1980, rising by more than 1,000 times from its original sale price.

Sotheby’s Anna Di Stasi said this record “shows just how far we have come, not only in our appreciation of 's genius, but in the recognition of women artists at the very highest level of the market."

But let’s be clear. While this is a major win, the gap is undeniable. Just days earlier, a Gustav Klimt painting sold for $236.4 million, and the highest price ever paid for a work by a male artist is $450.3 million for Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi. Dozens of artworks by men have crossed the $100 million mark.

Frida’s achievement is a monumental moment for women and for the world.

11/21/2025

This is Greta.
11 weeks old and her vibe is everything.
From having pneumonia & ear mites to serving up sass… See if I DON’T adopt them both. As if I wasn’t going to. Cmonnn

🤙 Fostering kittens & Therapy will help.

11/21/2025

11/20/2025