Bright Raven Psychotherapy and Consulting

11/15/2025

🥸💭💙This Movember, we’re opening up a conversation about men’s mental health.

🐦‍⬛Our latest Inside Voice article explores what real strength looks like, how talking about feelings, reaching out for support, and breaking old myths about therapy can become acts of leadership and care.

When men feel safe to share what’s really going on, connection grows with themselves, their partners, families, and communities.

👂 We’d love to hear your thoughts:
What helps create spaces where men can open up safely?

📰 Read the full Inside Voice Movember feature at Report North Bay.ca

11/11/2025

🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛Don’t let your benefits go to waste, invest them in you and your family.
You’ve worked hard this year, don’t forget to take care of you.

Most extended health benefits reset in January, so if you’ve been thinking about starting therapy, now’s the perfect time to use them before the year ends. Therapy is an investment in your well-being, a way to head into the new year feeling supported, clear, and grounded.
Flexible scheduling available including evenings, virtual, or in-person support.

🗣Reach out today to get started! Your future self is cheering you on!

11/07/2025

🏃Racing to the end of 2025? If you’ve been feeling tense, scattered, or just off lately, you’re not alone.
Stress is your body’s natural response to demand. It helps you rise to challenges but when it doesn’t get a chance to reset, it can turn into chronic stress.

🤯That’s when you start to feel stuck in “go mode,” even when you’re exhausted.
Your mind races, your body tenses, and rest never quite feels like rest.

Here’s the good news: we can’t always control what stresses us, but we can learn how to respond.
🌱When you notice your early stress signals such as a clenched jaw, a short fuse, a restless mind, that awareness becomes your power.
That’s your cue to pause, breathe, and tend to yourself with care.

Small shifts like that help your nervous system find safety again.
Over time, that’s how calm begins to return.

✨ Therapy with Siobhán can help you understand your stressors, discover your stress response and find steadier ways to cope. Book a session today!

10/31/2025

A happy spooky season to you!

10/30/2025

🦥🐨 Say hello to Sunny the Sloth and KC the Koala. Sunny and KC are Siobhán and Brittany's newest session sidekicks. They'll be hanging out in session for anyone who could use a little comfort and grounding.

10/28/2025

🎄🎄 Set the Table for a Peaceful, Drama-Free Holiday 🎄🎄

The holidays and family time can bring up so many mixed feelings. You may feel the Santa groove-connection, joy, nostalgia. You may also feel some Grinchy vibes-stressed, overwhelmed, cranky. If the upcoming holidays sometimes make you feel like hiding in your cave, you’re not alone.
Family gatherings can stir up old patterns, expectations, and… yes, a little drama. Competing demands can be exhausting, and you might catch yourself saying yes when you really want to say no.

Here’s the thing: you don’t have to ride the rollercoaster this year.
You can show up without the chaos, with tools to stay calm, grounded, and even enjoy yourself.

Our team can bring some steadiness to this high pressure season and help you prepare for a drama-free holiday. It’s not about fixing your family, it’s about supporting you to:
🌿 Set boundaries that protect your peace
💬 Communicate your needs clearly (without guilt)
🕯️ Focus on what you can control and let go of pressures to fix everything
❤️ Learn to respond to family stress with compassion

🎅Want less Grinchy chaos and more of that Santa groove? Let us help you reclaim your calm, your joy, and your holiday season. Book a session, your peace is part of the celebration too.

10/25/2025

This is an issue I could talk about for days with every profession but especially with those of us in the caring professions. Work-related stress and burnout is not just an individual problem, its a complex response to witnessing painful events, a work system that is difficult with little reliable and consistent support, weak or damaging leadership, and your personal relationship with work/career as well as self care and personal mindset/meaning. We don't reduce this to a self care problem (hint: we need community care) and prescribe kale and yoga...we get real about the complexity and get into your humanity. Signed: a therapist that burned out and rose up from the ashes ❤️🐦‍⬛❤️

10/21/2025

My first podcast!! I hope you love it, its very vulnerable to do this kind of interview but Im grateful to North Bay Echo for the opportunity!!

In a world that constantly pushes for perfection and productivity, what does it mean to just be human?In this episode, we sit down with Brooke Bertrand, a ps...

10/20/2025

❤️New Recruits Alert❤️
Christmas has come early for our team with these fun new additions to our team. These weighted animals are a new comfort item for our clients (heck, we'll be using them too!) to make our spaces more soft and peaceful.
🐦‍⬛Can you guess each team member's new friend?!

10/15/2025

💫 Introducing Brooke’s Inside Voice 💫
A new space where I get to blend two lifelong loves: writing and the messy, beautiful work of being human.

💫When I was a kid, I dreamed of being an author. Writing has always been a personal strength — and an outlet for my inner world and creativity. A bit of a dreamer, I filled notebooks with stories, thoughts, and questions about people and the world at large.

Writing this way for the public — openly, reflectively, and in my own voice — feels deeply vulnerable. It will give a peek behind the private curtain of my work and my own thoughts on being human in this messy world. It’s one thing to write for myself; it’s another to share it with the world, especially for someone who’s mildly allergic to the whole “influencer” thing.

🐦‍⬛ Through Brooke's Inside Voice, I get to share this creative part of me through the lens of a therapist, a human, and someone still endlessly curious about connection, love, and the stories that shape us.

✍️Come along with me as I offer reflections on relationships and mental health, the spaces between love, vulnerability, and our shared humanity. No influencer vibes here, just a therapist with a pen and a lot of feelings.

10/10/2025

💚 World Mental Health Day 💚

Support for your mental health shouldn’t be a privilege —
or something you reach for only when life falls apart.

Everyone deserves care that’s consistent, compassionate,
and available — in crisis and in the everyday moments.

At Bright Raven Psychotherapy, we believe mental wellness grows when care is supported by strong communities and collective care. Effective support comes from advocacy, connection, prevention, and helping people feel seen, supported, and cared for in all their humanity.

💚 You don’t have to wait for a crisis to ask for help.
We’re here when you’re ready.

10/09/2025

You get to read a therapist's inside voice over at ReportNorthBay.ca