I love walking…this time of year has me outside any day that’s not raining. There’s something about walking that creates space for new thought…quiet spaces seem somehow different in a way that’s hard to explain. Walking feels good…and after, knowing that there has been a healthy long walk, it feels great. Walking forward creates movement …
Do we treat addiction?
Often on our contact page, or on the phone, folks ask us, “Do you treat addiction?” Sooooo many folks struggle with extreme and disordered behaviour, when spending too much, working too hard, eating too much (or not enough), drinking too much, using and abusing street drugs, abusing prescription medication, or consumed with electronics…facebook, gaming, …
The Newest Grandma
If you want to ask Melanie for a favour…this would be a good week to do it. Melanie is flying high, all smiles, and if you slow down as you pass her desk, you will have no option but to hear the good news…Baby Ava was born healthy yesterday at 6:11 am, right on her …
Meet Gail Shaver
Gail Shaver has been a part of the Bergen and Associates Counselling group for coming onto two years. Gail is great. She has a passion for the work. She went back to school as a mature student to become a therapist because she wanted to invest her life into working with people this way. She …
Silly Fun
We had pie for lunch today. Not for dessert. For lunch. Today is International Pi(e) Day. At Bergen and Associates, we’re not shy about finding things to celebrate…we love to create joy…and Del, who came in for a half day today, made sure we celebrated in style. Lemon meringue pie. YUM! The pie was seriously awesome. …
Meet Michael Quiring
Knowledge reduces anxiety. Or at least I think so. When I prepared to move to California to begin graduate studies, I was shivering in my boots (figuratively, and literally…it’s cold in Saskatoon compared to the San Joaquin valley!) I was nervous about moving to another country and putting down roots in an unknown city. Because …
Funness
I have seen few therapists take the craft of therapy as seriously as Rod Minaker does. When he takes on a new area of counselling, he invests heavily in resources and devours them…he understands the new model inside and out. When he meets a new client, that client has his full attention and I know …
Hope
November upon us…it’s getting darker and colder. Not only is the season a difficult one, but it’s a difficult life season for our team too. It’s piling up, where members of the Bergen and Associates Counselling team are being hit by deaths of friends, aging and dying parents, health challenges, terminal illness of family members, …
October 31st Greetings
I remember how Halloween lets kids “try on” ways of being elegant, or brave, or sophisticated, or grown up and they get to feel what its like to be a grown up when they wear doctor’s scrubs or an electrician’s belt or a princess costume. And they get to challenge their fears and conquer “scariness” …
500th post–Life Lesson #4–Value of Connection
This is my 500th post…a bit of a marker for me on this cold dreary wet October morning. That’s kind of a big deal. When I was finishing high school, I did one of those “career aptitude” tests. It suggested that my top options were to be a nurse or a nun. The latter seemed …