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Rooted Reflections: The Calming Tree Counselling Blog
Real talk, insights, and a little inspiration.
Insights from the counselling and psychotherapy team at Calming Tree in Kitchener-Waterloo. Practical, compassionate writing on anxiety, grief, parenting, relationships, and starting therapy.
We offer children's, teen and youth, individual, and relationship counselling, in person in Kitchener and virtually across Ontario.
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Finding Your People: How Therapy Can Support Safe Connection (Part Two)
In the first part of this series, we explored chosen family and the role that belonging can play in healing. We looked at the importance of connection, the reality of grief and gratitude, and the ways meaningful relationships can become sources of safety and support.
Finding Your People: The Role of Chosen Family in Healing Part One
Many people grow up believing that “family” is supposed to automatically feel safe, but for many folks, this just isn’t true. For many people, especially queer/trans folks, neurodivergent folks, and trauma survivors, belonging is something that they’ve had to find and build intentionally.
Social Work Happens in the Quiet Moments Most People Never See
Some of the clinicians here at Calming Tree work full-time with us, while many others also work at other organizations and agencies in roles that look very different from sitting across from you in a therapy room.
Even Resting Is a Verb: Why Doing “Nothing” Still Counts
In a world that glorifies productivity, it’s easy to feel guilty for slowing down. We’re conditioned to measure our worth by results, by how much we accomplish, how busy we stay, how visible our effort is.