General

8 Things Therapists Should Never Do

Psychotherapy is governed by professional standards designed to protect client welfare, confidentiality, autonomy, and safety. While most therapists adhere to these standards, clients may occasionally encounter behaviours that fall outside accepted ethical and professional practice. Understanding the distinction between appropriate therapeutic conduct and potential boundary violations can help clients make informed decisions about their care and recognize when concerns may warrant further discussion or consultation.

Anxiety

Pride Month and Minority Stress: LGBTQIA2S+ Mental Health

Every June, Pride Month brings communities together to celebrate the diversity, resilience, and contributions of LGBTQIA2S+ individuals. For many people, Pride is a time of joy, connection, and self-expression. But Pride is more than a celebration, it also serves an important role in supporting mental health and well-being. To understand why Pride matters, it's helpful to understand a concept known as minority stress.

Anxiety

The Psychology Behind the Sunday Scaries: Why Sunday Feels Emotionally Heavier Than It Should

At their core, the Sunday scaries are a form of anticipatory anxiety, the stress we feel when thinking about something difficult that has not happened yet. The human brain is remarkably good at predicting the future. In fact, one of its primary jobs is to anticipate problems before they happen. From an evolutionary perspective, this ability helped humans survive. Our ancestors benefited from mentally preparing for danger long before it arrived.

Individual Therapy

Should Therapists Be Influencers? The Ethics of Mental Health Content in the Age of Rage Bait

Mental health content is everywhere.Open Instagram or TikTok and you will find therapists explaining attachment styles, trauma responses, narcissism, anxiety, burnout, relationships, boundaries, and emotional regulation, often in under 60 seconds. In many ways, this shift has been profoundly positive. Conversations about therapy are more accessible than ever, people who may never have encountered mental health education now have language for their experiences, stigma has decreased, and more people seek help.

Individual Therapy

Understanding Avoidant Attachment: Causes, Symptoms, and How Therapy Can Help

Human beings are inherently relational. From infancy onward, emotional bonds shape not only how we experience safety and connection but also how we understand ourselves and others. While many people develop a stable sense of trust and closeness in relationships, others grow up learning that emotional vulnerability is uncomfortable, unsafe, or unlikely to be met with care. These early experiences may contribute to what psychologists refer to as an avoidant attachment style.

PMOS and Mental Health: How Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome Affects Mood, Anxiety, and Depression

In May 2026, a landmark international consensus announced that Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) would be renamed Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS) following a 14-year global collaboration involving clinicians, researchers, and patient advocacy organizations, including the Endocrine Society and more than 50 professional and lived-experience groups.The decision, published in The Lancet, reflects a critical scientific correction: the condition long called “PCOS” is not defined by ovarian cysts, nor is it confined to reproductive dysfunction (Teede et al., 2026). In fact, evidence now confirms there is no increased prevalence of pathological ovarian cysts in the condition historically mislabeled as PCOS. This correction matters not only for endocrinology, but for mental health.‍

Individual Therapy

The Hidden Psychology of High Performance: Achievement as Protection

In contemporary mental health and sport/performance psychology, one of the more clinically significant (but often misunderstood) patterns is the link between early adversity and later overachievement. Not all high achievers have trauma histories, and not all trauma survivors become high achievers.But for a meaningful subset of individuals, exceptional performance is not only ambition-driven, it is regulation-driven. In other words, achievement becomes a psychological strategy for maintaining safety, stability, and relational security. This pattern is often conceptualized in clinical literature as adaptive overfunctioning or achievement-as-protection.

Individual Therapy

Why So Many Endurance Athletes Are Trauma Survivors: The Hidden Psychology of High Performance Athletes

Spend enough time around elite endurance athletes and a pattern starts to emerge. The ultramarathon runner who cannot sit still. The cyclist who trains through injury. The triathlete who feels strangely calm only while suffering through a six-hour ride. The Olympian whose relentless discipline seems almost superhuman, but whose personal story includes loss, instability, neglect, addiction in the family, or emotional hardship.

Grief & Bereavement

When Mother’s Day Hurts: Navigating Grief, Loss, & Emotional Triggers

Mother’s Day arrives each year wrapped in pastel marketing campaigns, family brunch reservations, flower deliveries, and endless declarations of gratitude. For many people, it is framed as a joyful celebration. But for those who are grieving, whether through death, estrangement, illness, infertility, family rupture, or complicated maternal relationships, the day can feel emotionally relentless.

ADHD

Task Positive Network vs Default Mode Network in ADHD: What This Means for Executive Function

ADHD is often described in behavioural terms: difficulty focusing, procrastination, distractibility, or inconsistency. While these descriptions are accurate at the surface level, they don’t fully explain why these patterns occur at the cognitive and neurological level.A useful framework from cognitive neuroscience involves two large-scale brain systems: the Task Positive Network (TPN) and the Default Mode Network (DMN). Understanding how these networks interact provides a clearer, more mechanistic view of executive function challenges in ADHD.