Calgary Counselling Service: The fight for truth
August 21, 2021 Comments Off on Calgary Counselling Service: The fight for truth“Can you help me, I just don’t know what to believe any more?”
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Abuse Counselling Calgary: Why can’t I feel at home in my own body?
December 4, 2020 Comments Off on Abuse Counselling Calgary: Why can’t I feel at home in my own body?Abuse Counselling Calgary: When the memories come, they usually emerge without warning. The rest of the world goes dark, and, in our mind’s eye, a time travel event occurs. Instantly, we find ourselves teleported to another time and place and then frozen and immobilized in our terror.
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Couples Counselling Calgary: Protect your relationship from marriage counsellors.
September 12, 2020 1 Comment on Couples Counselling Calgary: Protect your relationship from marriage counsellors.Couples Counselling Calgary: One of the most surprising discoveries we made when we first opened our Calgary Counselling Services related to the reasons most of our marriage and couples counselling clients were coming to see us. Now well over 20 years ago, it was obvious to all of them that Henze and Associates was a new Calgary counselling centre and even more apparent that we were both fresh out of school and only barely knew what we were doing.
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Why can’t we just say it?
June 25, 2020 1 Comment on Why can’t we just say it?Why can’t we just say it?
What is it about our society that keeps most people believing that everyone thinks just like they do while, simultaneously, communicating to the minority that they are the only ones? And, will anything induce us to change our path?
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How to raise a victim of childhood sexual abuse
February 18, 2017 1 Comment on How to raise a victim of childhood sexual abuseJust for a moment, let’s completely ignore the tragic cascade of underage child abuse victims themselves acting out the same behaviours on other minor family members or peers where the perpetrator really is as much a victim as the the one being abused.
Have you ever tried, even for just a few seconds, to step inside the mind of the most hardened adult sexual offenders and imagine what they need to see in a child to begin taking steps towards victimizing him or her? Is there a pattern? Why would they target one child and completely ignore another?
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Quick fixes, Band-Aids and EMDR…
May 19, 2015 Comments Off on Quick fixes, Band-Aids and EMDR…When we receive referrals from the medical community of clients struggling with anxiety or panic disorder, one of the most common requests we get is for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. It’s highly popular — though I doubt if the majority of those who refer for such have any idea what they are suggesting.
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Tradition: But, we’ve always done it that way…
April 17, 2015 Comments Off on Tradition: But, we’ve always done it that way…
Read moreTradition: It can make life rich (big ethnic holiday feasts) and sometimes limited (seemingly arbitrary social taboos about clothing), but where does it stem from?
New research out of Karolinska Institutet’s Emotion Lab in Sweden attempts to answer that question, by creating a psychological model behind the notion of tradition. It turns out that humans have a tendency to be quite sheep-like: the researchers found that it likely comes from a threat of punishment – as well as people’s willingness to copy others.
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Maybe faith is not so dead…
April 6, 2015 Comments Off on Maybe faith is not so dead…
Read moreYou don’t need to be a churchgoer to pray. That’s one of the findings of a sweeping new poll on faith from the Angus Reid Institute, conducted in partnership with Dr. Reginald Bibby of the University of Lethbridge. The recent survey of 3,041 Canadians showed that even as our affiliation with organized religion continues to decline we still believe – just in our own, often deeply personal, ways. Here’s a snapshot of how faith shapes our behaviour and our views of one another today.
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Giving hugs later doesn’t help…
March 25, 2015 Comments Off on Giving hugs later doesn’t help…
Read more“If you believe that you can shake your children or slap them across the face and then smooth things over gradually by smothering them with love, you are mistaken,” wrote lead researcher Jennifer E. Lansford on the Child and Family Blog. Lansford is a research professor at the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University. “Being very warm with a child whom you hit in this manner rarely makes things better. It can make a child more, not less, anxious.”
The blog is a joint project of the Future of Children at Princeton University and the Applied Developmental Psychology Research Group at the University of Cambridge.
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What keeps men from seeking help?
March 9, 2015 Comments Off on What keeps men from seeking help?
Read moreThe shame experienced by men who have lost their position as the primary breadwinner in their family can be devastating. This is frequently more than just a lost job-it can also define the purpose of a productive life. The loss of purpose experienced in job loss can cripple self-esteem and destroy one’s concept of self-worth. This shame can create a solid barrier to the discussion, particularly discussion with a stranger in therapeutic situations.
