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Therapist Spotlight! 🌿🧠✨We’re so excited to highlight Hayley Wills, RCT-C, a warm, grounded, and deeply relational membe...
11/17/2025

Therapist Spotlight! 🌿🧠✨

We’re so excited to highlight Hayley Wills, RCT-C, a warm, grounded, and deeply relational member of our counselling team.

Hayley supports teens (16+), adults, seniors, and couples navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and life transitions. With a special focus on relational health, she helps partners strengthen communication, rebuild trust, deepen intimacy, and understand one another on a more meaningful level. Her integrative approach blends Person-Centred Therapy, Somatic and Mindfulness-Based practices, Emotion-Focused Therapy, the Gottman Method, and Integrative S*x & Couples Therapy to create a space where connection feels safe, supported, and genuinely possible.

💬 “Every relationship has seasons — therapy helps you grow through them, together.”�— Hayley Wills, RCT-C

Attachment styles begin in childhood but continue to shape how we relate, connect, and feel supported as adults. Underst...
11/15/2025

Attachment styles begin in childhood but continue to shape how we relate, connect, and feel supported as adults.

Understanding your attachment pattern isn’t about blame, it’s about clarity, healing, and choice.

With awareness and support, attachment patterns can change. Therapy can help you build safer, healthier ways of connecting. 🫂🤍

11/15/2025

2024 Alumni of Distinction highlight: Michelle Labine, Social Services, 1998

Michelle Labine is a psychotherapist, educator and mental health advocate with 25+ years of experience.

As founder of ML Family Counselling and Couch of Hope, she’s expanding access to inclusive care and mentoring the next generation of therapists.

Her work is rooted in compassion, equity and community impact.

Congratulations, Michelle! 👏

Read more: https://ow.ly/Oiy950Xl7EI

November 13th -19th is Transgender Awareness Week 🏳️‍⚧️This week invites us to recognize both the strength and the vulne...
11/13/2025

November 13th -19th is Transgender Awareness Week 🏳️‍⚧️

This week invites us to recognize both the strength and the vulnerability of trans and gender-diverse individuals.

It’s a reminder that respect, belonging, and affirmation matter, every day. Whether you are walking your own journey or standing beside someone who is, know this: you are seen and you are supported.

Source: Transgender Awareness Week Toolkit, It Gets Better Canada.
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Therapy isn’t only for crises. It’s for anyone who wants to understand themselves more deeply, strengthen relationships,...
11/12/2025

Therapy isn’t only for crises. It’s for anyone who wants to understand themselves more deeply, strengthen relationships, and sustain emotional health.�
You can be thriving and still benefit from therapy, because growth doesn’t end when things are going well.

Today, we pause to remember the bravery, sacrifice, and quiet resilience of those who served.Remembrance is an act of he...
11/11/2025

Today, we pause to remember the bravery, sacrifice, and quiet resilience of those who served.

Remembrance is an act of healing, a moment to reflect, honour, and hold space for those still finding peace.

Dissociation can feel alarming and isolating, but you don’t have to navigate it alone.Grounding techniques are practical...
11/10/2025

Dissociation can feel alarming and isolating, but you don’t have to navigate it alone.

Grounding techniques are practical tools that help bring you back into your body and the present moment. Start small. Practice often. And know: reaching out for support is a courageous step. 🤍

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Source: Talkspace, 10 Grounding Techniques to Interrupt Dissociation, May 5 2025.

When life feels overwhelming, it’s natural to shut down emotionally, but staying there can quietly drain your sense of s...
11/07/2025

When life feels overwhelming, it’s natural to shut down emotionally, but staying there can quietly drain your sense of self.

Healing isn’t about forcing yourself to “be positive.” It’s about gently noticing, allowing, and reconnecting at your own pace.

At ML Family Counselling, we help you reconnect with your feelings, your relationships, and yourself. You deserve to feel again.

Too often, men carry emotional pain in silence, taught to be strong instead of vulnerable. But strength also looks like ...
11/06/2025

Too often, men carry emotional pain in silence, taught to be strong instead of vulnerable. But strength also looks like reaching out, opening up, and allowing yourself to heal.

This Movember, we’re joining the movement to break the stigma and remind every man:�You don’t have to face it alone. Let’s make space for honest conversations, connection, and compassion, for ourselves, our friends, our partners, and our communities. 💙

Unexpected Impacts of Trauma 🧠Trauma can quietly shape how we think, feel, and connect, often in ways we don’t recognize...
11/05/2025

Unexpected Impacts of Trauma 🧠

Trauma can quietly shape how we think, feel, and connect, often in ways we don’t recognize. These patterns are not flaws; they’re protective responses. With care and support, healing becomes possible.

Therapist Spotlight! 🌿🧠✨We’re so excited to highlight Grace Myers, MACP, RCT-C, a warm and compassionate member of our c...
11/04/2025

Therapist Spotlight! 🌿🧠✨

We’re so excited to highlight Grace Myers, MACP, RCT-C, a warm and compassionate member of our counselling team.

Grace supports children (5+), teens, and adults navigating anxiety, depression, emotional regulation, self-esteem, trauma, and life transitions. Her integrative, trauma-informed approach blends CBT, ACT, Person-Centred, and Play Therapy (including AutPlay for neurodivergent children) to create a space where growth feels safe, creative, and empowering.

💬 “Safe spaces allow us to grow into our most authentic selves.” — Grace Myers, MACP, RCT-C

Your nervous system influences how safe, connected, and supported you feel in and outside of therapy. When the body feel...
11/03/2025

Your nervous system influences how safe, connected, and supported you feel in and outside of therapy. When the body feels unsafe, healing can stall, even when you “know” what to do mentally.

Therapy can help your body and mind reconnect so healing feels possible again.

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