Conversations to Avoid a Wedding Night Nightmare

Congratulations, you have found the person you want to spend the rest of your life with and are going to get married! Sitting down with your future spouse and dialoguing through different topics will help you both feel more prepared, and calm some of the nerves around the wedding night and the first experience of sex together.

Self-Pay VS. Insurance: Top Therapy Choices

You’re ready to dive deep into your mental health, armed with your insurance card, only to find out that the top-tier therapists—the ones who totally get the nuances of anxiety, depression, or those tricky relationship hurdles—often don’t mesh with insurance plans.

Marriage Counselling: Five pillars to keep your love alive.

Nobody can predict the future. We enter marriage with the best of intentions to “love and to hold…in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish.” Yet we know, how easy it is to become derailed and find ourselves experiencing pain, hurt and disappointment. So, how do we keep the embers of love burning?

Relationship Roller Coaster: Attachment Styles and What to Do

Have you been feeling the roller coaster effect in your dating or marriage relationship? Perhaps there are periods of closeness where the two of you feel safe and connected. But these times are inevitably followed by someone pulling back, or by hurt and conflict. After a while, the closeness comes back but you know the downward plummet will eventually come again, and you feel stuck riding the relationship roller coaster.

Why am I noticing Grief as I Plan for my Wedding Day?

When your face hurts from smiling as you think about your special day and your countdown gets smaller and smaller you start to notice something new come up inside of you… sadness. Wait what?? Sadness?? NO!! Why am I sad?! This “should” be the happiest day of my life? My wedding day! As fear starts to creep into your mind and you notice this new feeling emerge, you wonder: “Is this normal…?”