Seahorse Counselling & Psychotherapy

With Kate Pinsonneault I remember watching a young boy show his mom a picture he had drawn.  It was a typical preschool drawing of a “sunshine person,” a circle with a head, two dots for eyes, and a smile, accompanied by two lines on each side for arms and two

Understanding Our Inner Critic With Olivia Bates Struggling with low self-esteem? You are not alone.  We all have that voice inside our heads — sometimes just a whisper in the background, other times relentless, harsh, and consuming. It tells us we’re not good enough, not successful enough, not smart enough,

My Healing Journey With Compassionate Inquiry With Matt O’Donnell For over a year, I’ve been immersed in Compassionate Inquiry (CI), an approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté. What first drew me in was Gabor’s capacity to speak with clarity and heartfelt compassion about the pain that lives under the surface of

With Kate Pinsonneault You may have seen one of those videos showing men strapped to a machine that lets them experience muscle contractions similar to what women have during childbirth, and they cannot tolerate it.  Or maybe you’ve heard women talk about how their male partners are so helpless when