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Why Depression Isn’t Just Sadness, and Why That Distinction Matters in Therapy
What is depression? Learn how depression isn’t just sadness and how depression therapy in Edmonton can help you heal. Explore the difference and get support today.
When Grief Feels Like It Will Never End – How Grief Therapy Can Help You Heal
Struggling with loss? Learn how to deal with grief and explore how grief therapy offers support, guidance, and healing when emotions feel too heavy to manage alone.
Gender Dysphoria and Therapy: Creating a Safe and Affirming Space
Gender Dysphoria and Therapy: Creating a Safe and Affirming Space explores how Gender Dysphoria Counselling provides support, acceptance, and healing. Learn more now!
What should I ask when I call my insurance company?
What does my insurance cover? What do I ask my insurance company? We've compiled a list of questions to make discussing and understanding your insurance coverage easier.
Perinatal Loss & Continuing Bonds
An important way bereaved parents can come together is by creating an ongoing attachment with their baby. This is known as continuing bonds.
Who Am I? And What’s That Got to Do With Therapy?
Culture can be an inseparable part of our identity at times, a major part of what makes us who we are. Our cultural identities can play a huge role in defining our values, how we experience adversity, how we see the world, and what it means to live a good life.
5 ways group therapy has an edge on individual therapy
The interconnectedness that is present in group therapy is not like any other ordinary group.
Join our B.R.I.G.H.T. Group
This group aims to offer clients the opportunity to develop psychological flexibility through a combination of several evidence-based psychotherapies.
Creating a mindful action plan during lockdown
Mindfulness involves some meta-thinking: that is, some deep diving into the thoughts that are behind your thoughts and emotions. Don’t worry, this isn’t quite like the Matrix.
Mindfulness and yoga for PTSD
Mindfulness and yoga, moving mindfulness, are two forms of treatment that can assist in decreasing symptoms of PTSD, in addition to regular psychological services.
How to protect your relationship from the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic
The added stress of the pandemic is bound to show up in increased conflict and stress for relationships.
Building compassion for anxiety during COVID-19
Understanding that not everyone is in the “same boat.”
Mental Health Check-in
Join psychologist Jack Conner for a Mental Health Check every Saturday at 1pm via Zoom meeting.
Mindfulness over the holidays
Preparing for the holiday season can be an exciting experience but also one that comes with increased requests of our time and activity: travelling, planning holiday events, and managing busy work schedules and increased home demands.
Announcing child psychology services at Edgar Psychological
We are happy to announce that Edgar Psychological is now able to offer child psychology services to your patients.
Finding support after an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis
A new diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can feel overwhelming and leave families unsure of how to best support their children to ensure they reach maximum potential.
Time for change?
I think everyone who walks through the clinic’s doors assumes they want to change. ‘Of course I want to get better!’ I have no doubt that a part of you does, but the reality is that most of the parts inside of you probably don’t, hence the difficulty with feeling better.
Why is therapy so darn expensive (in private practice)?
Some clients may have this image of psychologists driving around in a late-model Escalade, the seats cushioned with $100 bills, singing Lil Wayne’s Money On My Mind, but that lavish image is best saved for the rappers in Hollywood.
Mindfulness – what is it, and why bother?
There are a lot of myths and misconceptions about what mindfulness is and how it can help us.