Hate your Job? 5 Tips to stay happy and fulfilled at work.
Global News April 9, 2012 TORONTO – A new study by Montreal researchers has found that sticking with one job too long can lead to emotional and physical burnout, but according to one psychotherapist, if you are feeling burnt out, there are a number of things that can help. Ed Santana, a psychotherapist and career coach [...]
Rekindling Your Sexual Relationship
By Bev Behar, MASc, RSW, RMFT Many couples find that their sexual relationship dwindles over time to a problematically low level. Some couples haven’t had sexual relationships in months or even years. There is no doubt that a good sex-life brings not only enjoyment, but resilience to boost the couple’s ability to overcome the stresses [...]
Putting Loving Sex Back Into Your Relationship!
By John Henderson, M.Div., M.Th., RMFT Every week another potentially loving couple arrives at my office, distraught over their dissatisfied sex life. Couples complain their relationship and sex life isn’t what it used to be when they were first married. Between having children, juggling two careers, family and personal commitments, stress filled commutes and providing [...]
Marriage And Depression
By Malcolm M. MacFarlane, M.A. RMFT Depression in a spouse is an issue that most couples will face at some point in their marriage. It is estimated that seven to nine percent of Canadians will suffer from depression at some point in their lifetime. Depression is a normal and natural response to loss or grief, [...]
Learning To Fight Fair
By Heather McKechnie, MSW, RSW, RMFT For many of us, learning to fight fairly when emotionally upset is a challenging experience that most people learn by trial and error and through honest communication which often follows after the initial blowup. Many families have different styles of dealing with disagreements that all couples need to interweave [...]
Helping Families Heal
By Philip Classen, Ph.D., C. Psych., RMFT & Diane Marshall, M.Ed., RMFT For trained marriage & family therapists psychotherapy is always a family affair. Family therapists deal with a great variety of clients: some come as individuals, some as couples, some as families; clients here in Ontario come from a huge range of nationalities, ethnic groups, and [...]
Cross-Cultural Couple Counselling
By Sharon Y. Ramsay, MDiv, RMFT Which of these foods contain the recommended daily requirement of Vitamin C: one-half a red pepper, one-quarter of a cantaloupe, 250 millilitres cooked broccoli, 250 millilitres of strawberries or 250 millilitres of orange juice? Answer: all of the above. What does vitamin C have to do with the practice [...]
Couples Communicating
By Margaret Fisher, Ed.D., RMFT The foundation of a healthy, dynamic couple relationship is effective communication. Too many couples experience unnecessary hurts and misunderstandings because they do not make the time and effort to communicate clearly. On automatic pilot, they push each other’s buttons or spiral into conflicted interactions over and over again. When they [...]
Choosing To Go For Therapy
By Bev Behar, MASc, RSW, RMFT Asking for therapy is so hard for most of us that, unless we have a therapist who we already know and trust, we either delay until we are desperate or we avoid it altogether. When we look for a good therapist we are at a very vulnerable point in [...]
