Roxy Humphrey Counselling

11/14/2025

https://www.roxyhumphreycounselling.com/post/a-conversation-about-ambiguity-and-control-in-therapy

How controlling should your therapist be?

08/19/2025

Interested in Group therapy?

This process group is a place to feel seen, heard, and understood in your humanity. Being witnessed by others in a safe and caring space can be deeply healing; it can ease feelings of isolation and emotional pain.

Learn more about this offering here:

https://www.roxyhumphreycounselling.com/post/living-room-a-process-therapy-group-for-people-20

08/17/2025

https://www.roxyhumphreycounselling.com/post/living-room-a-process-therapy-group-for-people-20

A Process Group? What’s that?A Process Group is a confidential, experiential, co-created space where folks can connect, share, and support each other. It’s a place to feel seen, heard, and understood in your humanity. Being witnessed by others in a safe and caring space can be deeply healing; it...

06/25/2025

For anyone interested in trying out group therapy!

A Process Group? What’s that?A Process Group is a confidential, experiential, co-created space where folks can connect, share, and support each other. It’s a place to feel seen, heard, and understood in your humanity. Being witnessed by others in a safe and caring space can be deeply healing; it...

06/16/2025

"My study of these little finches has offered a number of reminders of how to live well in a harsh world: developing relations of interdependence, practicing rituals for survival, living with limits, and cultivating regular practices of joy."

Over the last month, I have become transfixed on a pair of house finches who have decided to build a nest in the cedar hedge just outside my living room window. I have spent an entire day doing nothing but watch them flit in and out of the hedge as they slowly accrued the ingredients to build their....

03/15/2025

"It’s my experience that a person willingly enters into an experience of anxiety when they know what they are seeking and they believe that the experience of discomfort is worth the outcome on the other side. So that means that looking at anxiety as a part of growth is central."

I have been contemplating a simple diagram recently that I saw in a book by authors Phil Stutz and Barry Michels (many might know of Stutz from the documentary that Jonah Hill made about him a few years ago on Netflix). Somewhat skeptically, I was flipping through The tools: 5 tools to help you find...

06/08/2024

If you are feeling exhausted lately, you are not alone and the problem isn't completely yours to solve. Here's a blog with some things I think are true and can be helpful to hear (repeatedly).

Who isn't exhausted? It seems like most people I engage with lately - with those I work alongside, friends and neighbours in my community, and even with strangers in the grocery line up - I am noticing the signs of collective, cultural exhaustion. People keep expressing that they feel burnt out - by...

04/05/2024

I often get asked why I like working with clients who have experienced trauma. To many people who ask me, it can seem like it might be overwhelming or heartbreaking. The truth is that far from feeling overwhelmed, it’s the opposite: I find my work as a counsellor incredibly grounding and hopeful. ...

01/11/2024

From one of my fave counsellor pals - a cozy winter practice that can soothe and settle.

"As the return of the sun mixes with the deep January light, this invitation connects with the winter season, earth elements, rhythms, and body regulation.

The found ground is a simple and creative practice meant to support nervous system regulation as you invite your body into a relaxed state through movement and sensation. "

As the return of the sun mixes with the deep January light, this invitation connects with the winter season, earth elements, rhythms, and body regulation. The found ground is a simple and creative…

11/23/2023

Almost every year, I notice my anxiety increases over the holidays. I feel my chest tighten and my heart rate increases as I think about the “to do” list that fills this season. On top of that, I also notice an increase in existential angst bubbling up. I wonder about the impact of this season o...

09/16/2023

"It’s exactly this sort of awkwardness that I have been celebrating lately, as I experience it in both my own life, and witness it in the people I interact with on a daily basis. I’m learning to see these moments of awkwardness as moments of courage and beauty because of the way they open one up to possibilities that are found outside of our control and within the realm of uncertainty."

Yesterday I attempted to make small talk in the change room of my yoga studio with a person who was washing their hands beside me. Impulsively, I tried to make a joke, which she clearly didn’t get based on the silence that followed…. Or, maybe she didn’t hear it, since I was so awkward in my d...

08/29/2023

New Blog: A metaphor for what happens in therapy from the mountains

I recently went on a backpacking trip that was rather challenging for me - a friend and I hiked to the top of Mount Myra in Strathcona park, which has an elevation gain of 1800m. The hike was steep and I was very aware of my recovering shoulder injury and my limited balance as a result of breaking m...