It's time for you to get unstuck and feeling better.
MindWise Counselling: Counselling Services and ADHD therapists In Kamloops
Everyone worries and feels uncertain at times in their lives. It's a normal part of growing, changing, and learning. But worry and anxiety can also become powerful and restrictive, disrupting life, impacting relationships, and taking away the parts of life that used to seem normal or enjoyable. If left unaddressed, anxiety takes control and dominates your decisions, telling you to avoid things or people, stealing your confidence, and leaving you to feel panicked and alone.
The information and skills we teach go after patterns that keep anxiety and worry in charge of adults, teens, families, and children, sometimes for many generations. Our work together will help you understand anxiety and the cognitive and physical patterns keeping you, or your loved one, stuck. By working with the brain, nervous system, and the body, we will guide you to restore your belief in your abilities to handle whatever comes your way and move forward with ease.
You are not alone, and we are here to help.
Neuroscience, brain imaging, and clinical research are telling us more and more about ADHD. Here are a few important things:
ADHD is not a behavior disorder.
ADHD is not a specific learning disability.
People with ADHD are not lazy.
People with ADHD can't just try harder.
It is delayed development of the brain’s self-management system, the frontal lobe, which affects executive function and self-regulation. Both adults and children can be diagnosed with ADHD. Despite its name, ADHD doesn't actually cause a deficit of attention - it actually makes it difficult for ADHD'ers to direct their attention on purpose.
Knowing what ADHD is and how it works is an important part of feeling understood, creating routines, and making steps that will lead to more ease. You will be able to manage life more easily with strategies and tools when you understand how ADHD show up. Whether you are a parent, partner, family member, or the one with the diagnosis, take steps that will make all the difference, now... and for the future.
Trauma is a long journey, isn’t it? Research shows unhealed trauma is stored and relived in the body. You experience this through reactions, sensations, behaviors, feelings, and thoughts. When you are activated, there are parts of your brain that go offline, so you can't talk yourself out of these experiences, and this may cause you to feel… out of control and stuck.
How you think, feel, and act is definitely part of what we talk about in counselling. However, it isn’t always enough. When addressing trauma, another question to ask is, “Notice…” and “What happens next? Creating awareness of patterned sensations and responses leads to making sense of yourself, decreases shame, and paves the road to self-compassion and acceptance.
Our approach involves treating the "here and now experience" of those events from the past that we cannot change. By recognizing the role of "triggers" in the symptoms you experience, you can start to differentiate between the past and the present. You can forge a new relationship with yourself, and others, as you create a deeper understanding of patterns that keep you stuck and take steps to relate to yourself with kindness and compassion.
While the need for human connection is neurologically wired in our brain, the ability to form healthy, loving, loving relationships is learned through life experiences, beginning in childhood. These early years can directly affect how you show up in your adult relationships with your Self and others.
Healthy, loving relationships are the foundation for connection and meaning in our lives – we need them! Yet, self love and loving relationships are rarely as perfect or problem-free as we would like them to be. The ability to have thriving, respectful relationships, amidst difficult times or challenges, is possible! You do not have to be stuck in the chaos of hurt feelings, misunderstandings, and communication breakdowns. Communication skills are at the core of healthy relationships.
We help individuals, parents, teens, and families identify the problems, create a deeper understanding, and learn strategies and tools so that you can connect and rebuild your relationships.
Where attention goes, neural firing goes. And where neurons fire, new connections can be made in the brain.
Dan Siegel