The Counseling Studio

12/03/2025

Maybe not a war, but a brain grab:

11/21/2025

I advocate for the appropriate expression of your emotions, but there are times each of us is going to need to deal with a reality which does not meet nor match our feelings. That might be what your journal, your therapist, dancing furiously are for.

In an overstimulated, screen-driven world, we avoid hard emotions. Learn how awareness and pausing can help us reconnect, feel, and be present again.

11/14/2025

What has worked for you to befriend the colder, Winter months?

Beat the winter blues with four research-backed tips: build routines, get outside, cultivate joy, and create stillness to boost mood and resilience.

11/14/2025

Beat the winter blues with four research-backed tips: build routines, get outside, cultivate joy, and create stillness to boost mood and resilience.

06/22/2025

The One Who Speaks with Stones
They say the Blue Heron was not born from egg or sky—but carved from river rock by the first hands of the land. He rose when the world needed a listener, not a voice.
By the water’s edge, he speaks with stones—the old ones who remember when the forest was still a whisper. He learns their quiet language, waits through seasons, never rushing answers. The wind forgets, but the stones do not. And so, neither does he.
The elders say he appears when a heart is heavy and silence is needed more than sound. He does not offer comfort. He offers truth—the kind that arrives slow, like dawn through fog.
He walks the shoreline between worlds: land and water, memory and becoming.
He is not a messenger. He is the pause before the message.
And in that stillness, healing begins.
We call him T’łikwaan — He Who Listens to What Is Buried.

04/08/2025

Lengthy but intriguing:

Note: We know this piece is a little longer than usual, so feel free to jump to the 'Wrap-up and Takeaways' section at the end. However, we believe you'll find it to be an enjoyable read.There was a time, not so long ago, when curiosity felt like an impossible skill for me.I would sit in a conversat...

04/06/2025

GABA supplements for pains, anxiety symptoms in the body, for sleep and calm, my colleague Trudy explains it all:

GABA supplements don’t work – GABA is too big a molecule to get across the blood brain barrier. They don’t typically work unless you have a leaky gut which means you have a leaky brain” (also referred to as leaky blood brain barrier/BBB). This is one of the most common myths I hear about GAB...