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Nicole Perry - Embodied Psychology

Nicole Perry is a Registered Psychologist who offers counselling from a feminist perspective.

12/05/2025

✨ 3 things I do as a therapist to protect my emotional energy

If you're a helping professional, a social change-maker, a teacher or a caregiver, you should know that being affected by the people you help is a good thing — a super power, even. And yet, it's often really hard to do this type of work without burning out.

As a therapist, I want to continually be moved and transformed by my clients. I want them to feel really seen, loved, and understood. I've discovered that the best way of ensuring that continues to happen over time is by protecting my emotional energy.

In the slides I offer three ideas to do that, but do you know what’s at the core of this? Setting boundaries. Boundaries allow us to connect with others without feeling drowned in their pain.

To help you learn therapist-approved tools you can use to offer sustainable caring, make embodied decisions and set boundaries in a self-compassionate way, I'm ending 2025 with a 25% discount on all my online courses.

➡️ Just for December, use this code at checkout: 25X2025

I’d love to answer any questions you might have, and you can check out all my offerings at the link in bio or at: embodiedpsychology.thinkific.com

12/03/2025

As the seasons change, I think it’s time for a reintroduction!

I’m Nicole Perry, an introvert who loves cats, reading, and travel. I'm also a Registered Psychologist with a private practice in Edmonton.

I have a passion for helping people build shame resilience and become more self-compassionate. One of my biggest hopes for my clients is that they leave our sessions feeling heard and accepted, knowing they have value outside their productivity.

The therapeutic work I do is experiential, somatic, and relational, from a collaborative and feminist approach. I believe in seeing problems within their context and in being a non-judgmental advocate and support.

If this resonates with you, I invite you to check out my website, where you’ll find resources at no cost, affordable online courses, and information about 1:1 sessions: www.embodiedpsychology.ca

This month I’m launching a new offering and a discount on my courses, so stay tuned!

📸 Credit for my new headshots to the amazing @‌aspenzphoto !

09/17/2025

Have you heard people talk about "Parts Work Therapy" and wondered what it meant?

Parts Work is a symbolic model that gives us a language and framework to process our inner awareness, and it can help us reach our goals in therapy. Swipe to learn more about it, and see if Parts Work may be something you’d like to try out.

If you’ve tried the Parts Work approach, how did you feel? Did you find it useful to understand your experiences? If not, is this something you may be interested in exploring?

09/11/2025

Exciting news! The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) chose THE BOUNDARIED THERAPIST to produce it as an audiobook 💙

This is part of their goal to create accessible materials for folks with visual disabilities. And since I’ve been asked about this by therapists who wished they had the option to listen to my book on their commutes, I hope many of you will benefit from this new format.

The audiobook should be widely available for sale through Audible and Kobo, which is also good news. Stay tuned for the release!

09/09/2025

What do “bottom-up” and “top-down” mean in therapy?

If you read my last post on AEDP and had questions about this, this might be useful to help you understand the differences.

I hope that this also helps you see that, if you’ve tried a top-down therapy and it didn’t work for you as much as you hoped or you feel like you’d like to try something different, it might be a good idea to try bottom-up, or an integrated approach!

08/14/2025

I’ve been reflecting on what makes therapy actually healing—not just helpful, but transformative.

I recently read Diana Fosha’s book about AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy). Learning more about this model felt as if someone sat in my office and put words to the nuances of what I try to do every day. It reminded me that being present is the work. When sessions feel alive, when there’s real connection in the room, I leave changed, too.

In the slides, I’m sharing a few reasons why AEDP feels so aligned for me. If you resonate with these ideas, I hope this gives you a bit more language for the kind of work we might do together.

➡️ To read more on AEDP: aedpinstitute.org
➡️ To find out more about my services: embodiedpsychology.ca

07/29/2025

How can we prevent burnout before we reach a breaking point?

As a therapist, I work with people who are emotionally exhausted, losing hope, and feeling disconnected from the things they used to care about.

Whenever I talk to folks who have learned to set good boundaries, I like to ask them, "what helped you get away from how you were living before and work in a sustainable way now?"

The answer is often some version of "My body broke down. I HAD to stop."

In this post, you’ll find some tools to help you recognize the signs of burnout, take them seriously, and be intentional with your actions. This was adapted for social media from a free printable available at my website: embodiedpsychology.ca

⚠️ Please keep in mind that these resources don’t replace therapy; always check with your doctor or therapist if you're experiencing symptoms that affect your daily life.

And if you’d like an additional non-interactive educational experience, I have a mini course called HOW TO PREVENT BURNOUT. Link in bio!

07/22/2025

How do we balance our needs and boundaries with those of our partners?

One of the biggest reasons people cite when they start working on boundaries is reducing resentment in their relationships.

When faced with a request to do something, it might be helpful to tune in with your emotions and ask ourselves: do I WANT to do this, am I WILLING to do it, or am I being COMPLIANT to a demand?

You can download this exercise as a free printable at my website (no subscription required!): embodiedpsychology.ca

I also have paid offerings on boundaries, like my mini course HOW TO SAY NO, where we learn more about listening to ourselves, making difficult decisions, and dealing with the guilt that comes up. Link in bio!

07/11/2025

How do we identify what we need?

As we work on boundaries, we may find that we've been acting out of sync with our internal sense of what's best for us. But because we're often so disconnected from our needs and there are so many choices to spend our time and energy on, it can be difficult to know what we really want in order to prioritize it.

This short exercise can help you become clear on your values, the things you want to say yes to, and the things you need to say no.

If this is helpful, you may want to download this as a free printable worksheet at my website: embodiedpsychology.ca

And if you'd like extra support on setting boundaries, I have a mini course called HOW TO SAY NO, where we learn more about listening to ourselves, making difficult decisions, and dealing with the guilt that comes up. Link in bio!

07/08/2025

I set a boundary with someone and they didn't respect it. Now what?

I think most of us imagine our ideal scenarios when we go to set boundaries for the first time. “The person will totally understand! They will accept my boundary and we’ll move forward! It will be a one-time conversation and I won't have to do anything else!”

Unfortunately, this is often not how it plays out, even with people who love us and want what’s best for us. It can take time to adjust to new situations, even for people who are willing to work with us.

A big part of what I work on with clients and supervisees has to do with setting boundaries that are actually under our control.

🗨️ Swipe for some key ideas on this, and read more in my latest blog post at embodiedpsychology.ca/blog

06/09/2025

Are you a practice owner, supervisor, teacher, or leader of a mental health organization?

I’m offering a 25% discount on bulk orders of my book THE BOUNDARIED THERAPIST! Use the code BOUND25 at checkout on orders of 5 paperback copies or more, through the UTP Distribution website.

I wrote this to support both new and experienced counsellors, because it’s the kind of tool I wish I’d had access to when I was getting started in this profession.

This self-reflective guide for therapists aims to help you identify your needs, set boundaries, and lead a more sustainable career and life.

➡️ Get it at https://utpdistribution.com/9781550599480/boundaried-therapist/

05/23/2025

Financial boundaries to bring clarity

If you work in private practice, you may want to add to your self-reflection work questions about your financial boundaries. I offer some prompts to guide you in this post, but please keep in mind that:

- There’s no one right answer to any of these questions.
- It’s okay if the answers (your boundaries) change over time.

Do yourself and your clients a favor by increasing clarity on these important questions - it’ll save you a headache in the long term!

➡️ I created a resource specifically for therapists, so that we might begin to acknowledge our own limits, needs and values, which will allow us to lead a sustainable practice and link. “The Boundaried Therapist: Sustaining yourself in the counselling profession” is available in both ebook and paperback - link in bio.

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Nicole Perry is a Registered Psychologist who offers counselling from a feminist perspective. She specializes in working with people who are struggling with feeling burnt out and are learning to say no. Nicole understands that many of us are coping with overwhelming feelings of guilt and shame that keep us from believing we deserve good things, and works to guide her clients toward a more compassionate way forward.

Over the past ten years she has also discovered a strong passion for working with survivors of sexual violence. She uses an approach called Somatic Experiencing, which is a body-based therapy for healing trauma. She also uses imaginal and mindful approaches to help clients heal old and painful wounds of the past. Nicole approaches her healing work with warmth and curiosity, and offers a safe container for working with difficult experiences.

Nicole provides counselling to individuals and groups. While she is currently full for individual clients, registration is open for her boundaries group and shame resilience group, and these typically run 1-2 times per year. She also recently launched an online course based on her work specializes in helping people set boundaries - Big-Hearted Boundaries.

LGBTQ* and polyamorous clients welcome.