Compass Psychology Finland

31/10/2025

Happy Halloween! 🎃

29/10/2025

❓Your instincts might tell you to silence or ignore "unpleasant" emotions, but what if they're not a problem to be fixed, but a message to be heard?
💡In this month’s newsletter, our intern Barbora Prokešová dives into the evolutionary purpose of emotions like anger, fear, and shame, showing how they are powerful, ancient signals designed to help us survive and thrive. By understanding what emotions are for, we can learn to move from suppressing them to understanding and accepting them and riding their waves.
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We tend to treat emotions, especially the unpleasant ones, like unwanted guests — rushing to silence them, ignore them, or push them out the door before they’ve had a chance to speak. When we feel sadness, anger, envy, or shame, our instinct is to fix them and to make them go away as quickly as

25/10/2025

25/10/2025

💡📻📰In this month’s newsletter, Compass owner Annabel Battersby tells us how to access Finnish local and national news and media in English and a host of other languages🗞️🧐Keeping connected with local news and TV is a really good way to ground and orientate yourself, and is therefore a useful tool in the integration process.

Recently Hatty and I were invited to speak on the YLE English language podcast "All Points North" about mental health issues in Finland. The whole experience reminded me that while many foreign born people living in Finland enjoy and listen to this podcast, many more are unaware that the service eve...

17/10/2025

The webshop is open for our November New Mother’s group. Come and meet other Mums in a safe environment. Sign-up here: https://compasspsychology.fi/services/new-mothers-group-helsinki/

12/10/2025

✅A few of the Compass team attended the Psychological Practitioners Finland ry (PPFry) Professional development Day yesterday. The theme of the day was ”Burnout” and there were excellent talks from Dr Stela Salminen, Francesca Brandolin, Yuliia Pryimak, Marika Somersalmi, LPC and Compass Psychology’s Srishti Trehan, Ph.D. As well as this Dr Hatty Francis-Ehnholm, gave updates on the Psychotherapy training in English project, which will hopefully start through Jyväskylä University in Autumn 2026.

✅PPF ry is a vital organisation for a large and growing group of foreign trained mental health professionals in Finland, providing initiatives, network and professional development in English.

01/10/2025

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28/09/2025

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