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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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Blended Families: Understanding the Stepparent Role
Blended families are one of the most common family structures in North America today. Yet despite their prevalence, they face a distinct set of relational challenges that biological families typically do not encounter in the same way.
Constant Conflict? Ways to Understand and Move Through Conflict in Relationships
Whether we keep having the same fight with our partner, or are chronically arguing with our sibling, or stuck in a cycle of not talking about anything real with people who matter to us, conflict is one of the biggest reasons people seek help for their relationship.