Blog | Cortney Pasternak, Counsellor

A Guide to Happiness? Comes at a Good Time

What better time for those in the Northern Hemisphere particularly, with a COVID winter on the horizon, to be thinking[…]

I have noticed a casual (and often insensitive) familiarity in the way people are engaging with each other on online[…]

I’ve written several times about estrangement in families. It is a relatively common issue I see in my psychotherapy and[…]

It’s about time! While physician attitudes and biases toward and around gender identity, sexuality, mental health have evolved (and varied)[…]

You are probably already learning that it’s easy for things to go sideways at home after so many hours, days[…]

If you are feeling as overwhelmed as so many other parents (whether or not you are have work or benefits,[…]

For many, feelings panic, worry, anxiety, depression, boredom, isolation and loneliness occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic are quite new. If[…]

If you’ve experienced bouts of grief and loss in your life — chances are, you have reached out to friends[…]