Cara Tedstone Therapy

Cara Tedstone Therapy A holistic approach to youth and family therapy 🌿
Supporting families throughout Ontario 🍁
Offering sliding scale & affordable services 🤍

If you want a more collaborative and cooperative home, try appreciation first! ❤️‍🩹 Kids (and adults) rise to feeling se...
11/25/2025

If you want a more collaborative and cooperative home, try appreciation first! ❤️‍🩹
Kids (and adults) rise to feeling seen, appreciated, and understood. Control only activates our defenses. It’s absolutely true that when we shift the climate versus trying to change the person, change happens organically, honestly and willingly!

Do you have questions!? Leave em in the comments 💬

Behind every post is a real human who is tired, hopeful, imperfect, and trying her best right alongside you. Thank you f...
11/14/2025

Behind every post is a real human who is tired, hopeful, imperfect, and trying her best right alongside you. Thank you for being here with me 🩷
!!!

Talking is just one way to collaborate! 🙊Sometimes you solve more through play, role-playing, or turning the tension int...
11/09/2025

Talking is just one way to collaborate! 🙊
Sometimes you solve more through play, role-playing, or turning the tension into a giggle than through any perfect words.
If this is new, your child might not trust it yet… but keep practicing!
I’ll be back in March if you’re stuck and want to book sessions 🩷

Our kids really won’t remember perfect parenting, but they’ll remember how it felt to be with us. 💛
Ensuring our kids ar...
11/07/2025

Our kids really won’t remember perfect parenting, but they’ll remember how it felt to be with us. 💛
Ensuring our kids are seen, safe, deeply respected, and valued. That’s the work we do here.

I’ll be stepping away for maternity leave soon and back in the spring!🌷
Feel free to reach out in March to book sessions or reconnect

Couples always want to know: how the hell do we stay connected when we’re arguing and simply have completely different p...
11/05/2025

Couples always want to know: how the hell do we stay connected when we’re arguing and simply have completely different perspectives?

We did it by remembering we’re not enemies.
We stayed curious.
We stopped caring about who’s right.
We used language like “the story in my head is…” to share without attacking.
And at one point my partner said, “you’re my favourite person, so I want to figure this out with you.”
That’s relational mindfulness in action!

What’s one thing your partner could say in conflict that would help you feel safe again? 💬

10/29/2025

👻 but here’s the good news:
we can all learn to be a little less spooky in our family systems! 🎃
non-coercive, relational, and collaborative skills aren’t some mystical, inherent traits. they’re practiced! 
repair, connection, curiosity, and compassion are the real magic that bring our families back to life ✨

10/22/2025

what a gift it is to work with parents who are on this path!

every day i meet people doing their damndest to live non-coercively, relationally and collaboratively and to treat their children with the same reverence and tenderness they wish they’d been met with. it’s humbling, beautiful work. 🤍

to the men and masculine doing the work: thank you ❤️‍🩹
your willingness to reflect, take accountability, and reclaim co...
10/21/2025

to the men and masculine doing the work: thank you ❤️‍🩹
your willingness to reflect, take accountability, and reclaim connection gives us all hope.



Here’s a parts work exercise I made for myself and been following before bedtime (and sometimes afterwards). bedtimes ca...
10/17/2025

Here’s a parts work exercise I made for myself and been following before bedtime (and sometimes afterwards). bedtimes can be long and tiring at the end of the day when I just really want some time alone.

if you too notice guilt after a hard moment, see if you can name two parts:
the protector that tried to hold it all together, and the one that wished you’d done it differently.
invite both into your awareness and sit with them.
this is what self-compassion looks like in practice 🩷 it’s a small act of inner repair before the outer one begins!

I hope everyone has a chance to rest this weekend. ❤️‍🩹

blame has no place in these moments. yes, i’m upset too. and that’s valid - maybe my child is pushing my buttons, saying...
10/17/2025

blame has no place in these moments.
yes, i’m upset too. and that’s valid - maybe my child is pushing my buttons, saying hurtful things, or my partner isn’t showing up the way i need.
but right now, blame won’t bring us closer.
what will? presence, care, repair.
i can come back to my own feelings later, after we’ve both softened.
❤️‍🩹

just a few of the ways I sometimes betray my own parenting philosophy before 9am 🤦🏼‍♀️ we’re all a work in progress, mys...
10/15/2025

just a few of the ways I sometimes betray my own parenting philosophy before 9am 🤦🏼‍♀️
we’re all a work in progress, myself included 🩷

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Toronto
Toronto, ON
M6C2T7

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Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm

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+14167022492

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