System Crasher

It only takes one person to make change happen.  It takes others to join in and believe.  When I first became a therapist, I was confused by the silos of college registrations and the education requirements for each.  I was healthy and thinking soundly at the time and just cannot imagine being under stress while […]

Mind Body Connection

When I started in private practice working many years ago, I had many successful sessions where the individual received Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT).  Through a workbook, the individual began to understand how thought and feelings were connected and could be changed, then BOOM – finished and out the door!  Those were the successful people, but some, […]

Functional Approach – Looking Upstream

There are two pillars of mental health that we should be aware of:  Psychological and Medical.  The first one is psychological — it is what we think about and the second one is medical — it is what we do to our body.  Both of these pillars work together which affects our lives.  Mental health […]

What Are The Pillars of Mental Health

There are two pillars of mental health that we should be aware of:  Psychological and Medical.  The first one is psychological — it is what we think about and the second one is medical — it is what we do to our body.  Both of these pillars work together which affects our lives.  Mental health […]

What is MTFHR?

Methylene homocysteinetetrahydrofolate reductase is an enzyme that breaks down the amino acids in the body  Amino Acids help the body repair tissue and break down food.  The ability to function normally or completely inactivate it can be interfere with by the MTHFR genes, which have the potential to mutate. Everyone has two MTHFR genes, one […]