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

Tara Syed

Aug 13
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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 13
2 min

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 25
2 min

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 22
2 min

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 21
2 min

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 30
3 min

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 11
2 min

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 11
2 min

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 6
2 min

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 6
2 min

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, 2022
1 min

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, 2022
2 min

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, 2021
2 min

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, 2021
2 min

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, 2021
2 min

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, 2021
2 min

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, 2021
2 min

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, 2021
3 min

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, 2021
2 min

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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