HGT Counselling

03/22/2026

Currently reading 📖

How to Do the Work by Dr. Nicole LePera.

One thing I appreciate about this book is how it explains something many people experience in therapy: our patterns didn’t appear out of nowhere. They were learned, often as ways to survive, adapt, and belong.

The work of healing isn’t about blaming the past, it’s about understanding it. When we recognize the patterns our nervous system learned early on, we gain the ability to choose something different.

That’s the real “work.”
Not perfection.
Not fixing yourself.

Awareness, compassion, and small choices that move you toward the life you want to live.

03/20/2026

✨ Healing isn’t linear.

I often explain it like a video game.

Each level gets harder.
You carry new skills, tools, and awareness forward.
But sometimes you hit a hard part and feel like you’re “back at the beginning.”

You’re not.

You’re just replaying the level with more experience.

Growth means the challenges change.
It doesn’t mean you failed.

The only people who are "failing" are the ones who are actually TRYING.

03/15/2026

💚 Growth is a choice.

Some people do the work.
Some people avoid it.

And often, the ones who end up in therapy
are the ones who were impacted
by those who didn’t.

Healing isn’t about blame.
It’s about breaking patterns.

The choice is yours.

03/10/2026

🐾If this thought comforts you, hold it.

The mind looks for connection when love has nowhere physical to land.

Missing them doesn’t mean you’re not coping.
It means the bond mattered.

And bonds like that deserve tenderness. 💖

At HGT Counselling, we not only understand this, but respect it and hold space for it. Reach out for support: info@hgtcounselling.com

03/08/2026

💚 A gentle love note from someone who had to learn this too:

You don’t need permission to live in alignment with who you are becoming.

The bravest work isn’t loud.
It’s the quiet, consistent choices.
The boundaries no one sees.
The self-trust you practice in small moments.
The pauses you learn to take to sit with it.

Keep choosing yourself — softly, steadily.

— Chelsea

03/05/2026

🌿Unseen pain doesn’t disappear. It lodges.

In tight shoulders.
In a jaw that never unclenches.
In exhaustion that doesn’t make sense.
In reactions that feel bigger than the moment.

The nervous system doesn’t run on logic.
It runs on safety.

If no one ever sat with you in the hard moment —
if it was minimized, rushed, or silenced —
your body may still be bracing… just in case.

This is why being witnessed matters.

Not fixed.
Not analyzed.
Not told to move on.

Witnessed.

When pain is seen, named, and held in safety,
the body finally gets new information:
“It’s over now.”

That’s the work.
That’s why I do what I do.

If your body still feels like it’s in something you survived — you’re not broken.
You’re adaptive.

And you don’t have to untangle it alone.

-Chelsea

03/02/2026

🐾I am thrilled to join ElderDog Canada PEI and work alongside the wonderful executive team and volunteers.

Volunteers are needed in several areas, including dog care support, fostering, and education and outreach. Dog care support includes dog walking and helping seniors with things such as administering medication or taking dogs to vet appointments. We are always looking for volunteers to walk dogs, provide temporary foster homes, and to help spread the word of what ElderDog offers.

Check them out: https://elderdog.ca/

👋 | WELCOME Chelsea Almeida, our new ElderDog PEI Pawd Volunteer Coordinator!

Chelsea - pictured here with her 3 year old Schnoodle Sir Re*****on (who goes by Remy) - is the owner of HGT Counselling and a Registered Social Worker, Certified Counselling Therapist, and Certified Pet Loss Grief Specialist in PEI. Her work centers on the human–animal bond and its profound impact on emotional well-being.

Chelsea joined ElderDog Canada PEI to help protect these relationships, support volunteers and promote education and awareness around the truth that grief is not weakness, but evidence of love, regardless of species.

Chelsea is excited to connect with current and potential new ElderDog vounteers in our shared goal to help senior Islanders and their pets, to help keep love in the home. Drop her a line at peivc@elderdog.ca to learn more!

ElderDog Canada Inc

03/01/2026

🌿We’re growing, and we couldn’t be more excited!

Please join us in welcoming Kelly Morris, MA, RSW, to HGT Counselling.

With over 23 years of experience supporting couples through complex relational challenges, Kelly now offers Couples and Adult Family Therapy across Prince Edward Island at HGT Counselling.

This expansion reflects the need we continue to see in our community and our commitment to meeting it with experience and care.

Services begin March 3rd.
Availability is limited.

💚To begin your intake, please contact us below:
kelly@hgtcounselling.com
www.hgtcounselling.com
https://hgtcounselling.janeapp.com/

Discover effective talk therapy sessions at HGT Counselling Therapy. Our experienced counsellor therapist is here to support your mental health journey.

03/01/2026

🐾“Losing a pet changes us… not just for the first year, but for life.”

This is why I do the work I do.

Because I know — personally and professionally — that pet loss is not “just a hard week.”
It is an attachment rupture.
A nervous system shift.
A change in the shape of your home and the rhythm of your days.

I have lived it.
I have sat with families in it.
I have watched people minimize it because the world doesn’t always understand it.

But we do.

At HGT Counselling, pet loss grief is not treated as secondary, dramatic, or something to “move on” from.
It is honoured for what it is: love that ran deep.

If your grief feels bigger than people expect — that doesn’t mean you’re too much.
It means the bond mattered.

We get it.
And we are here.

— Chelsea
Certified Pet Loss Grief Specialist
www.hgtcounselling.com
info@hgtcounselling.com

02/28/2026

✨Merch order going in this week!

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These cozy, meaningful pieces were created with intention — to support local healing, spark conversations, and represent the heart of this work.
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🌱 Size chart in post

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02/26/2026

🌿We heard the need.

As couples, family, and youth services continue to grow, so are we.

HGT Counselling is expanding to better support our community and welcoming an experienced new team member.

More information coming soon

Stay tuned!

02/25/2026

🐝It is okay to stop doing and… just be.

Real talk?

I needed this reminder.

Lately I could feel my world tipping — not in a dramatic, everything-is-falling-apart way.
More like the quiet kind.
The “add one more thing to the list” kind.
The “just finish this and then I’ll rest” kind.

Except the list never finishes.

And for someone who holds space for others all day — who teaches nervous systems how to settle — it’s humbling to notice my own trying to sprint.

I didn’t need to do more.
I didn’t need to organize better.
I didn’t need to squeeze one more task into the margins.

I needed to be.

To sit.
To breathe.
To let the world spin without me micromanaging it.

Spring is 25 days away 🌿
Maybe that’s what this season is asking of us —
not more productivity, but more presence.

If you’ve felt the quiet overwhelm lately, this is your reminder too.

You are allowed to pause.
You are allowed to stop proving.
You are allowed to just be.

— Chelsea

✨ What would “just being” look like for you this week?
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