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When Anxiety Appears: Listening Beneath the Symptoms

When Anxiety Appears: Listening Beneath the Symptoms

Dec 31, 2025 | Anxiety, Panic, & Stress

Anxiety is one of the most common reasons people seek therapy. It can arrive as racing thoughts, a tight chest, shallow breath, or a persistent sense that something is about to go wrong. For some, anxiety feels loud and urgent, like an internal fire alarm. For others,...
Falling Back to Sleep: The Elevator Technique and Other Tools That Help

Falling Back to Sleep: The Elevator Technique and Other Tools That Help

Sep 19, 2025 | Anxiety, Panic, & Stress, Sleep

Most people know the feeling — awake at 3 a.m., staring at the ceiling while the mind rehearses tomorrow or rewrites yesterday. When the body wants rest but the mind refuses to stand down, the problem is rarely the waking itself. It is the spiral that follows. One...
Perfectionism and the Inner Judge: When Protection Becomes Punishment

Perfectionism and the Inner Judge: When Protection Becomes Punishment

Aug 2, 2025 | Anxiety, Panic, & Stress, self-compassion

“I should have known better.” “That wasn’t good enough.” “What’s wrong with me?” Most people know the feeling of the internal voice that pounces the moment we falter. In depth-oriented therapy, this voice is often understood as part of the superego — the internalized...
Forest Bathing: Returning to the Green Within

Forest Bathing: Returning to the Green Within

Jul 14, 2025 | Anxiety, Panic, & Stress, Mindfulness, self-compassion

Picture a quiet, moss-covered forest. Close your eyes and place yourself there — not as a visitor, but as someone returning. What do you hear? What do you smell? What changes in your breath? There is a reason the forest feels like medicine. Long before cities,...
When You’re Pulled Into Someone Else’s Storm: How to Regulate After Someone’s Blow-Up

When You’re Pulled Into Someone Else’s Storm: How to Regulate After Someone’s Blow-Up

Jun 28, 2025 | Anxiety, Panic, & Stress, Emotions, Uncategorized

You’re calm, doing your own thing. Then someone snaps — a stranger in traffic, a neighbour critiquing your dog-handling, unsolicited judgment from another parent in the grocery aisle. Before you know it, your voice sharpens. Your body tightens. You walk away...
At the Threshold of Night: Anxiety and the Return of the Unspoken

At the Threshold of Night: Anxiety and the Return of the Unspoken

Apr 19, 2025 | Anxiety, Panic, & Stress

When Quiet Becomes Loud There is a particular silence that arrives after dark—when emails stop, conversations fade, and the outer world recedes. For some, that quiet is welcome. For others, it is precisely the space in which the nervous system stirs, the mind begins...
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I work with individuals and couples as they move beneath the surface and engage the inner patterns shaping their lives. Grounded in clinical training and informed by symbolic and Jungian understanding, my practice offers a secure, containing space to stay with what is difficult and follow what emerges.

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John Taylor, MA, RCC — Registered Clinical Counsellor · Registered Psychotherapist
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