Sophia Burke Psychotherapy

05/05/2021

I am constantly talking about attachment styles in my work as a therapist so I was super excited to be able to provide a few quotes to the folks over at Shondaland about just that! :)

Experts offer insights on how to identify your style and how it might affect your romantic relationships.

04/05/2021

A conversation I have a lot with folks is about how to set healthy boundaries in relationships. This might be about setting healthy boundaries with friends, at work, in intimate relationships (and the doozy of all places to set boundaries) with family. Check out my blog post on setting healthy boundaries and Nedra Glover Tawwab’s new book “Set Boundaries, Find Peace: Reclaiming Yourself”. 🙂

I often find myself talking to folks in therapy about setting healthy boundaries in relationships. This might be about setting new boundaries with friends, at work, in intimate relationships, and (the doozy of all places to set boundaries) with family. People ask, "How do I set a healthy bounda

04/03/2021

I've started a new monthly blog post (potential newsletter?) roundup to briefly talk about all the resources I've been consuming & suggesting to folks throughout the month tailored to BIPOC & LGBTQ+ communities. Some of my recommendations might be Apps & Websites like the ones I’m linking down below while others may be movies or art exhibitions or cat videos. I don’t know. Sometimes your treatment plan needs “Watch cat videos” added to it. Ha. Check it out. :)

A Resource List of Apps, websites, articles, and services for BIPOC Mental Health and LGBTQ+ Mental Health.

03/29/2021

A new blog post all about starting new habits that you can stick to as well as stopping old habits!

As a therapist I am asked for strategies for developing good habits as well as breaking bad habits. Here are seven tips on how to create lasting habits or change current habits. These tips can help to get you into a groove of new behaviors that serve you both in and outside of therapy.

03/31/2020

https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief

"[...] we’re feeling a number of different griefs. We feel the world has changed, and it has."

03/03/2020

“When I say decolonizing, I want to question and interrogate the ways that these larger forces and institutions have told us what counts as mental health and what counts as suffering,” says Khúc. “In order to interrogate that, I have to draw on community and think about the kinds of knowledge that come out of our own communities around what suffering is.”

Reporting on the People, Issues, and Events that Shape our City - Calgary Journal Community Newspaper

01/24/2020

Feeling anxious? Overwhelmed? Unhappy? Not sure what you're feeling at all? These might be signs that your "check engine" light is on and seeing a therapist could help.

If the mere thought of going to therapy seems overwhelming, you're not alone. Plenty of people put off seeking therapy because of the stigma, cost and inconvenience. We've got four tips to help you make your first appointment.

01/08/2020

An older article wherein Francine Shapiro (creator of EMDR) answers frequently asked questions such as can EMDR be used to treat anxiety, chronic pain, false memories, and addictions? A good read.

Francine Shapiro, the originator of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, responds to readers’ questions.

12/06/2019

"This is the third and final episode in our series on childhood trauma and we're going big-picture. So buckle up, because the train is going to make stops in Rantville, Can You Believe This Burg and OMGtown."

Terrible, Thanks for Asking host Nora McInerny asks people to share their complicated and honest feelings about how they really are.

12/05/2019

"Beginning to see yourself from a strengths-based perspective is part of the process toward healing. Shifting your view of trauma as an injury shifts the perspective/belief away from “sickness” to “impact” and moves the conversation away from “what is wrong with you” to “what has happened to you”.

It is also important to have the awareness that people who have experienced trauma can go on to not only “survive” the trauma but also experience what has been identified in the literature as “Post Traumatic Growth”. Understanding that this is possible is an important element that contributes to fostering hope."

Focusing on strengths instead of weaknesses is a basic tenant of recovery, however for people who have experienced trauma this can be very difficult and part of what is wounded in the trauma. There is a tendency to see themselves as inherently weak due to their experiences. Beginning to see yourself...

12/05/2019

"If the terrible things that happened to you during childhood can affect your health later in life, how do you NOT live out the worst possibilities for yourself? Is that even possible? In this second episode of our series about childhood trauma, we look at protective factors and resilience."

Terrible, Thanks for Asking host Nora McInerny asks people to share their complicated and honest feelings about how they really are.

12/04/2019

"We all kind of understand that what happens to us as a child affects us as an adult. But there is recent evidence that the way our childhoods affect us is so much deeper and more surprising than we thought."

Terrible, Thanks for Asking host Nora McInerny asks people to share their complicated and honest feelings about how they really are.