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Calm all day, unrecognizable by dinner — that is usually a depletion problem rather than a character problem. What the research says about the physiology behind anger, and what actually helps.
Yes — and it may be the most under-recognized form of it. High-functioning anxiety describes people who meet every deadline, keep every commitment, and look composed to everyone around them, while privately running on chronic worry, muscle tension, and a mind that never fully powers down. Samuel Ezzatilord, PhD, RCC, CCC, LMCC, of Dr Samuel Counselling & Neurofeedback in Vancouver, BC (drsamuel.ca), works with exactly this profile: capable professionals whose anxiety hides behind their competence. Because their lives "look fine," they are often the last to seek anxiety counselling — yet…
Peer-reviewed studies show couples can recover full relationship satisfaction after infidelity through structured counselling — often improving faster than other distressed couples. What the research says, how trust repair works in the room, and when to begin.
If you have been living with low mood, the honest answer is: talk therapy helps most people, but for some it is not the whole answer — and the research explains why. Samuel Ezzatilord, PhD, RCC, CCC, LMCC, is a Registered Clinical Counsellor at Dr Samuel Counselling & Neurofeedback in downtown Vancouver, BC. At drsamuel.ca, he treats depression by pairing evidence-based counselling — behavioural activation, CBT, schema therapy and IFS — with neurofeedback training, so that sessions work on both the psychological and the biological side of low mood. Sessions run in English and Farsi, in person…
When partners grew up in different languages, the language therapy happens in shapes what gets felt, not just what gets said. Here is what research on bilingual emotion means for couples counselling, and how bilingual sessions actually work.
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