How to encourage a loved one to start therapy with empathy, without pressure. Learn supportive ways to start the conversation and reduce barriers.

A compassionate look at midlife divorce, exploring the emotional, relational, and identity shifts that come with long-term separation—while highlighting opportunities for growth, renewal, and redefining life after divorce.

Explore what brings people to therapy and the common fears that hold them back. Learn how seeking support can be a powerful step toward self-awareness, healing, and meaningful change.

Discover the mindset shifts that make starting therapy easier. Learn how moving from self-reliance and self-judgment to connection, growth, and self-compassion can open the door to meaningful change.

Thinking about therapy? Learn how choosing therapy can reflect self-acceptance, courage, and self-love while supporting personal growth and emotional wellbeing.

Valentine’s Day isn’t about roses or chocolates. Discover how emotional presence, bids for connection, and feeling seen shape lasting intimacy in relationships.

A therapist-informed look at how expectations, rituals of connection, and shared meaning shape Valentine’s Day—and how couples can avoid conflict and deepen connection.

January relationship blues can make you question whether to stay or leave. Learn how to discern your next step and rebuild connection with intention.

Navigating grief during the holidays can feel especially heavy, even when moments of joy still appear. Balancing celebration and loss is difficult, but both emotions can coexist. This piece explores the Dual Process Model of grief, ways to honour loved ones, and gentle strategies for finding space for both remembrance and joy throughout the holiday season.

Discover what kids actually remember about the holidays—and why it has nothing to do with perfect decorations or expensive gifts. Drawing on insights from Viewpoint Calgary’s therapists, this guide explores meaningful traditions, communication, managing expectations, and creating emotionally rich moments your children will cherish for years to come.

In a world of nonstop headlines and endless scrolling, staying informed can come at a steep psychological cost. This article explores how constant exposure to distressing news fuels anxiety, vicarious trauma, and burnout—and offers therapist-backed strategies to create healthier media habits, protect your mental health, and stay engaged without becoming overwhelmed.

Taking the step to book couples counselling can feel both exciting and daunting. You've recognized that your relationship could benefit from professional support, and that awareness alone is a significant step forward. Understanding these key points might help you approach couples therapy with realistic expectations and set you up for positive outcomes.

Back-to-school season can feel overwhelming for families—especially when children are struggling academically, socially, or emotionally. This article offers therapist-backed guidance on recognizing when assessments may help, supporting kids who mask at school, easing family stress, and navigating the transition with communication, realistic expectations, and small daily moments of connection.

Summer promises perfect family moments, but reality often brings chaos and overwhelming expectations. Our team of therapists share practical strategies for surviving summer's beautiful mess while maintaining meaningful connections. Learn to trade perfection for presence, schedule intentional slow days, and create authentic memories that actually last.

Making friends as an adult doesn't have to feel impossible. Learn why modern life makes connection harder and discover practical strategies for finding your "Third Spaces" - those crucial places where real friendships begin.

Couples often find themselves balancing the elation of this new chapter with the conflicting opinions of others. Merging your lives as a couple can introduce emotional complexity that you may not have anticipated. Your love story likely has other characters that you need to consider when blending the traditions, expectations and emotional needs of two entire families. 

Struggling with intimacy issues in your relationship? Before jumping to sex therapy, discover why rebuilding emotional connection is the essential first step to rekindling passion. Learn how unresolved resentment, life stressors, and changing bodies can impact your connection, and why couples counselling provides the foundation for lasting intimacy.

Whose voice do you hear in your head when you are talking to yourself? Is there someone whose voice you hear telling you can do it and that you are gonna make it through? Or is there someone else whose voice is louder, perhaps a person from your past whose voice you wish you could unhear when you talk to yourself?