Susan Tarshis, Registered Psychotherapist

03/26/2019

This is a really good article about procrastination and why compassion, not judgement, is the way out.

If procrastination isn’t about laziness, then what is it about?

01/23/2019

Share and tag someone you know perhaps?

11/13/2018

I love this article! Good parenting requires patience, planning and lots of love. Positive reinforcement always gets better results.

It doesn’t make you look authoritative. It makes you look out of control to your kids. It makes you look weak.

09/28/2018

I'm a more regular contributor to my friend's blog than my own and I don't regret it. Today I wrote this and I want to share it here too.

It’s been a heck of a day blog community. Not at all in a good way. Most of us over here on the contributor side have been glued to screens either watching or reading about the hearings in Wa…

09/24/2018

Finally another blog. This is a really hard parenting topic and I have no magic solutions but give it a read.

This post was inspired by a question from a good friend, who has a family member with a teen daughter with an Instagram account. The advice in this blog is aimed toward talking to young people on the female side of the gender spectrum but has resonance for all young people. Obviously, it isn't only....

04/14/2018

Announcement: I am pleased to tell you that I have been asked to come on as permanent faculty at the Toronto Institute for Relational Psychotherapy. This training program has always been at the heart of my practice and the ability to teach new therapists is the opportunity of a lifetime. I am so grateful and excited. You can take a look at

Psychotherapy Training Program

02/13/2018

I blogged on my website. Let me know what you think.

"I'm not myself." This is the reason clients most often give me for coming to see me. They have been waking up, wandering through their days with a vague sense of unease, some inherent knowing, that things are not the same as they were before.

12/05/2017

A friend of mine who inspires me daily has also written a post about coping and how therapy helps. In fact, we had a blogging throw down. Here is the result. I think we will do this again. Stay tuned and enjoy.

The magic answers to curing your anxiety don't come in a magic list. In three words? Talk about it. Read on for more on why this is the best way to battle panic

12/04/2017

Hey! We all want to know how to cope. But what does that even mean? I have thoughts. Here is a start on them.

It's not that I can't help you cope. I mean, of course I can, that is the whole point of therapy. What I'm trying to get at here is I can't do it in the way you may think that I can and there are really good reasons for that. I want to explain what they are.

11/28/2017

I am just so delighted by this comic that I’m sharing it here. Enjoy.

https://m.facebook.com/Lunarbaboon

Webcomic about a half man/half moon monkey trying to make sense of it all.

www.lunarbaboon.com

11/17/2017

I sometimes have clients who come to me with a goal of losing weight. I no longer let that be a goal of therapy. Body autonomy is much more important and broader. This is a post I found that is beautiful and heartbreaking. Have a read.

Scenes from a thinterrogation.

11/09/2017

My latest blog considers the benefits of longer term weekly psychotherapy. Have a read and tell me what you think.

In the early days of Psychoanalysis, patients attended sessions three or four times a week for several years. Analysts believed (and those who practice this way still believe) that the intensity of relationship, momentum and often conflict that could form with multiple weekly sessions over a signifi...