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Step by step guide to boost your child's resilience:

Tara Syed

Aug 130 min read

Step by step guide to boost your child's resilience:

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The Secret to Raising Resilient Kids: Simple Steps for Building Emotional Strength

Tara Syed

Aug 132 min read

The Secret to Raising Resilient Kids: Simple Steps for Building Emotional Strength

Building resilience in kids is all about helping them bounce back from life’s ups and downs. Children benefit from having strong,...

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From Chaos to Calm: The Grounding Power of Gratitude and Appreciation

Tara Syed

Jul 252 min read

From Chaos to Calm: The Grounding Power of Gratitude and Appreciation

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness." - Dalai Lama Simply put, gratitude if an art of appreciating...

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Understanding Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Side-by-Side Comparison:

Tara Syed

Jul 222 min read

Understanding Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Side-by-Side Comparison:

Walking through the doors to seek help is not an easy choice. It may mean admitting that one may need help and it could also feel like...

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Journaling: A Tool for Self Care and Mental Wellness:

Tara Syed

Jul 212 min read

Journaling: A Tool for Self Care and Mental Wellness:

One of the reasons why people seek therapy is if they are experiencing intense feelings like anger, disappointment, bitterness...

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Panic Attacks: Understanding, Coping, and Thriving

Tara Syed

Jun 303 min read

Panic Attacks: Understanding, Coping, and Thriving

This happened once morning a few weeks ago, I woke up and wasn’t feeling too well. I was experiencing aches and pains in my body and...

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Anger Management: When "Might" Does Not Mean "Right".

Tara Syed

Jun 112 min read

Anger Management: When "Might" Does Not Mean "Right".

Anger is a natural human emotion. We all experience it from time to time. But when anger spirals out of control, it can have devastating...

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DBT Skills: Your Toolkit for Emotional Resilience and Well-being

Tara Syed

Jun 112 min read

DBT Skills: Your Toolkit for Emotional Resilience and Well-being

Psychotherapy is a form of treatment of mental health concerns and emotional challenges. In colloquial terms it is also called talk...

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Tara Syed

Jun 62 min read

Stressed Out at Work? You're Not Alone

Recently, there has been a significant increase in the number of employees requesting stress leave from work. This change has been...

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The Power of Resilience: Navigating Midlife with Grace

Tara Syed

Jun 62 min read

The Power of Resilience: Navigating Midlife with Grace

Midlife can be a time of significant transitions and challenges at many different levels, from career changes to empty nests to health...

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Tara Syed

Jun 7, 20221 min read

How to navigate midlife?

Middle age is supposedly an age of transition and could create crisis in one’s life. It can feel like a rude awakening for many who may...

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Challenges of remote learning for children with special needs

Tara Syed

Jan 6, 20222 min read

Challenges of remote learning for children with special needs

The Ontario government has recently announced school closure and other restrictions in the wake of the new Covid-19 variant, I feel...

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Supporting your child through separation and divorce

Tara Syed

Dec 1, 20212 min read

Supporting your child through separation and divorce

Some years ago, I was approached by a parent seeking counselling support for her son who was experiencing socio emotional difficulties...

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Raising an ethical and responsible child

Tara Syed

Oct 24, 20212 min read

Raising an ethical and responsible child

My first rendezvous with western education system was when my sons started schooling in Canada. Early on I started to notice the...

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Finding balance in the criss-cross of cultures

Tara Syed

Oct 11, 20212 min read

Finding balance in the criss-cross of cultures

The western philosophy of life believes in individualism, independence, logic and reasoning whereas eastern philosophy is grounded in...

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Tara Syed

Sep 30, 20212 min read

Untitled

Using a culturally informed approach in individual and family therapy I was listening to Ted talks on this topic, and most of them were...

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Tara Syed

Sep 27, 20212 min read

Lessons from the Pandemic

The pandemic has been an eye opener of sorts. No one had expected that this notorious virus will bring devastation to humanity to the...

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Tara Syed

Sep 27, 20213 min read

Developing empathy, hope and resilience in parents of children with special needs.

In my clinical practice, I have worked with many parents whose child has received a diagnosis of a developmental disability like Autism...

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Tara Syed

Aug 12, 20212 min read

Grief and Loss

I was quite young when I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis, the diagnostic process was long and time consuming. However the effects of...

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