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Covid-19 Safety Plan
The Fay Ferris Counselling Covid-19 safety plan is simple: There is absolutely no in person sessions. All sessions will be telephonic or online. This safety plan is in effect March 15, 2020 and is ongoing into the foreseeable future. Updated Jan 10, 2022.
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Stop Procrastinating
Stop Procrastinating: On Completing Complicated Goals By Fay Ferris Do you have difficulty completing complicated goals? If you have tried and failed to do any of the following, then you have experienced the difficulty of completing a complicated goal: 1) changing your lifestyle, 2) getting out of debt and starting to save, 3) improving a…
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Coping with Difficult Times and Crises
Coping with Difficult Times and Crises When we are experiencing a sudden change in our lives it can be a very distressing time, but hopefully we can come through the time with added wisdom, more empathy, and a stronger sense of our resources and strengths. Here are some examples of common troubling times that people…
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The Love Bank – Simple Concept to Improve Relationships
The Love Bank – A simple concept to revolutionize your relationships I do a lot of marriage counselling and one of the first concepts that I want my clients to understand is the Love Bank because of its usefulness and immediate applicability. It’s a very simple concept quite widely used (I first learned about it…
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When you’re Stumped, Try the Out of the Box Technique
Out of the Box Technique: Something to try when a problem has you stumped Oftentimes in life we run into a problem with a situation and/or a relationship and we feel stumped; not at all sure how to move forward and solve the problem. We may even become despairing about the problem. Here’s a very…
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How To Change Beliefs that Aren’t Working for You
How to Change Beliefs that Aren’t Working for You Often clients come to counselling with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and disordered eating. As we work together to understand what underlies the symptoms, we often discover simple and basically untrue beliefs. These beliefs were developed when they were younger (often as young as 3 years old)…
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Rituals: Marking Transitions
Rituals: An Effective Way of Marking Transitions, Growth, Death and Seasons Transitions in our lives are unavoidable and often they are difficult even when they are happy transitions like marriage, birth or graduation. Rituals provide a way for us to comprehend, celebrate/grieve and process the transition.
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Theory of Addictions
How can we understand a behaviour that we compulsively do over and over even though we know it’s having negative consequences? You drink too much, you work too much, you eat too much, or you play too many internet games. You have an addiction to a substance or to a behaviour if you are not…