Insight Counselling & Consulting
Shannon M. Simms mental health and addiction counselling and resources
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a great fit for people who are interested in learning skills, it’s a therapy that is useful for all humans, in my opinion. It was originally developed to treat severe, complex and persistent mental illness, and over time it’s also been proven effective with depression, anxiety, addictions, eating disorders, any …
Feb 9, 2024: We are heading towards the biggest gambling day of the year, Superbowl. On the radio this morning was promotion of all the different types of bets one can make – outside of the big game itself – from the coin toss, to how many times Taylor Swift will be shown, to what …
Interesting 12 minute talk with Dr. Christine Carter – Change is hard, it takes effort, it requires motivation, and it requires MORE than willpower – change depends on your willingness to be ‘bad’ at something, rather than being perfect, or excellent, right from the start. I’ve experienced this myself – minimal effort is often better …
While ‘in-person‘ sessions are the optimal counselling environment (in my opinion), we are not all cut from the same cloth, and this format does not match everyone’s preference. In the spirit of working collaboratively with clients, and being open and flexible to their preferred way of connecting, I have received training in both Telephone and …
In my work I sometimes encounter people who have trouble identifying their emotions, have learned their emotions are bad or dangerous or signs of weakness. They may seldom have had their emotions validated or acknowledged by loved ones. Emotions are simply information from the body that “something is going on” that we should pay attention …
From Rick Hanson’s “Hardwiring Happiness: the New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm and Confidence”: The brain is an organ that learns, so it is designed to be changed by your experiences. Whatever we repeatedly sense and feel and want and think is slowly but surely sculpting neural structure. As you read this, in the five …
It’s exhausting to fight reality, and it’s not an effective strategy for feeling better or moving forward. “I can’t stand this”, “this isn’t fair”, “it shouldn’t be this way”, are thoughts that contribute to our suffering. Pain is inevitable, but our thoughts can escalate our suffering, making things worse. Radical acceptance is about accepting life …