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This weekly therapist blog is where we share our experiences of attuning to the work and to each other, as we journey through the living practices of therapy, mentorship, and community. You’ll find notes on the questions we’re grappling with, the collaborations we’re fostering, and the insights that inform our conversations with clients, colleagues, and communities. This is your invitation to stay with what emerges, together.
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When the World Feels Uncertain: Existential Therapy for Climate Anxiety
Political instability, climate crisis, and rising hostility toward marginalized communities can leave us bracing for what comes next. Existential therapy offers grounded support for meaning, responsibility, and belonging in uncertain times.
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Grief Therapy for Emotional Neglect: Grieving Parents Who Are Still Alive
Many adults carry grief for the care they never received growing up. This post explores the quiet mourning that can arise when parents remain in our lives but cannot meet us in the ways we needed.
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Finding a Relationship Therapist for Queer and Nontraditional Relationships
Looking for a relationship therapist can feel vulnerable, especially in queer or nontraditional relationships. Here’s what to look for, what questions to ask, and how to find therapy that honours your relationship and supports repair.
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When the World Feels Uncertain: Existential Therapy for Climate Anxiety
Political instability, climate crisis, and rising hostility toward marginalized communities can leave us bracing for what comes next. Existential therapy offers grounded support for meaning, responsibility, and belonging in uncertain times.
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Sensorimotor Therapy Supervision and Peer Consultation for Therapists
A grounded, relational space for therapists exploring sensorimotor therapy and somatic practice. Case support, pacing, and embodied clinical decision-making, with consultation shaped by years of training, supervision, and real-world application.
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LGBTQ-Affirming Peer Consults for Therapists When Clients Feel Uncertain
When your clients are carrying political fear, minority stress, and anticipatory grief, you may be holding more than “case material.” Peer consultation offers steadiness, ethics, and language that protects dignity
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Grief Therapy for Emotional Neglect: Grieving Parents Who Are Still Alive
Many adults carry grief for the care they never received growing up. This post explores the quiet mourning that can arise when parents remain in our lives but cannot meet us in the ways we needed.
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Supporting Your LGBTQ+ Teen in a Time of Fear, Change, and Uncertainty
When your teen comes out or begins exploring gender, you may feel fear, love, grief, and confusion at once. This post offers grounded guidance for supporting your transgender or gender-diverse teen while making room for your own questions and process.
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Why Non-Ordinary Journey Experiences Need Careful Integration and Support
A therapeutic journey does not automatically lead to healing. Post-psychedelic integration therapy helps translate insight into grounded, lasting change through nervous system support and thoughtful meaning-maki
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Finding a Relationship Therapist for Queer and Nontraditional Relationships
Looking for a relationship therapist can feel vulnerable, especially in queer or nontraditional relationships. Here’s what to look for, what questions to ask, and how to find therapy that honours your relationship and supports repair.
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When Survival Strategies Show Up in Relationships
The behaviours that create friction in relationships often began as ways to survive earlier life. With compassion and awareness, these strategies can be right-sized rather than erased.
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Where We Begin: Relational Healing in a Time of Reckoning
A grounded beginning for anyone living through burnout, grief, disconnection, or political strain, and longing for steady relationship, honest care, and a place to begin again.
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The Revolution Begins Within: Relationship with Self and Others
Relational healing begins within. This reflection uses Andor (Gilroy, 2022–present) to explore rupture, repair, and nervous system truth, and how knowing yourself first helps you show up in relationships with more steadiness, honesty, and care.
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Why Therapists Need Therapy: Holding Space Without Losing Ourselves
Therapists carry real emotional weight. This post explores why having your own therapy can be an ethical, sustaining part of the work, and how being held helps you keep showing up with clarity, care, and integrity.
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Mentorship for Therapists: Relational, Experiential, and LGBTQ-Affirming Clinical Supervision and Peer Consultation
We’ve been learning together for a long time. Since meeting as yoga students two decades ago, our work—and our friendship—has been shaped by deep practice, ongoing study, and the kind of conversations that only happen when trust runs deep.
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Burnout, Boundaries, and Being Human: A Practice of Care from the Inside Out
Burnout rarely arrives as collapse. It shows up in blurred boundaries, over giving, and quiet depletion. A relational reflection on staying human in caregiving roles, and building care that can actually sustain you.
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Welcoming Laura Hoge, RSW: A New Chapter in Our Practice
Laura Hoge, RSW has joined Clayre Sessoms Psychotherapy Inc. full-time. She brings decades of embodied clinical work, LGBTQ community advocacy, graduate-level mentorship, and parent support for gender-diverse youth, alongside a deep commitment to justice-rooted care.
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When Your Child Explores Gender: Affirming Support for Parents
Many kids explore gender through clothing, roles, language, and self-expression. This guide supports parents in Vancouver who want to respond with calm care, protect self-esteem, and find affirming resources without panic or overcorrecting.
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Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC): What This Adds to Our Collaboration
I’ve earned the ATR-BC credential in art therapy. Here’s what that training strengthens in our work together, and how arts-based therapy may help when words don’t reach what’s true.
