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Reflections on Therapy, Relationships, and Emotional Life
Thoughts on therapy, emotional wellbeing, and the experiences that shape how we understand ourselves and others.
Why Can Trying to Control Everything Feel So Exhausting?
Trying to stay in control can sometimes feel like the only way to manage uncertainty. Becoming curious about this need may help us understand our relationship with anxiety and the emotions that lie beneath it.
What Might Anxiety Be Trying to Tell Us?
Anxiety is often something we want to get rid of as quickly as possible. At times, however, becoming curious about anxiety may be the beginning of understanding ourselves and our emotional experiences differently.
Why Are We So Hard on Ourselves?
Many of us speak to ourselves more harshly than we would ever speak to someone we care about. Becoming curious about the inner critical voice may be a starting point for understanding why self-compassion can feel so difficult.
What Makes Therapy a Different Kind of Conversation?
Many people describe psychotherapy as unlike any other conversation. Not because someone has the answers, but because the therapeutic relationship creates space to understand ourselves in new ways.
Why Can Starting Therapy Feel Difficult?
Starting therapy is often more complicated than simply booking an appointment. Taking the first step can feel difficult, and therapy can offer space to begin making sense of that experience.
Why Do Similar Relationship Patterns Keep Showing Up?
Certain feelings and experiences can seem to repeat across different relationships. Understanding recurring relationship patterns may be a starting point for making sense of experiences that feel familiar.
When Life Is Moving Forward but Something Feels Missing
Life can continue moving forward while something internally feels off or difficult to explain. Therapy is not only for times of crisis. It can also be a space to understand experiences that feel confusing, disconnected, or difficult to put into words.
Understanding Psychodynamic Therapy: Looking Beyond Symptoms
Psychodynamic therapy looks beyond symptoms to understand emotional experiences, recurring relationship patterns, and the deeper processes that shape how we relate to ourselves and others.
Ipek Kaptanoglu
Registered Clinical Psychologist
Registered with the College of Psychologists and Behavioural Analysts of Ontario and the
College of Alberta Psychologists
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