The Blog
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.
Category
- Adult Children
- Advocacy
- Anxiety
- Blended Families
- Boundaries
- Budget Friendly Therapy
- Change
- Child Counselling
- Child Development
- Chosen Family
- Conflict Management
- Counselling Strategies
- Death and Losse
- Effective Communication
- Friendship Loss
- Goals
- Gratitude
- Grief Counselling
- Individual Counselling
- Moral Disengagement
- Numbness
- Parenting
- Postpartum Experience
- Queer Therapy
- Reframing
- Relationship Counselling
- Resources
- Self Compassion
- Separation/Divorce
- Sobriety
- Starting Therapy
- Student Counselling
- Substance Use Recovery
- Uncategorized
Considering Counselling?
We have often been asked “when should someone consider counselling services?” Just like most things in life, there is rarely a one-size-fits-all formula to initiate counselling and we would not want someone to feel “shoulded” into that decision. Realistically, the answer to when to consider counselling can be complicated, situational and personal.

