Transforming Emotions Blog
insights and healing
Welcome to the Transforming Emotions blog, where our skilled mental health clinicians offer insights and guidance on emotional well-being. Based on their extensive training and clinical experience, team members offer informed advice on topics ranging from managing stress to nurturing relationships, all tailored to help you achieve mental wellness and emotional balance. This blog is your reliable resource for understanding and transforming your emotions.
Why CBT Doesn’t Always Work for ADHD (and What Might Work Better)
When ADHD emotions feel too big for CBT, it’s not you—it’s the approach. Rebecca Osterlee explains why traditional therapy can miss the mark and how Emotion Focused Therapy helps ADHD adults process, heal, and truly move forward.
When Your Body Speaks: the Nervous System 101
Your nervous system is your body’s command center, guiding every breath, reaction, and emotion. Rebecca Osterlee breaks down how it works, how it influences your mental health, and how tuning in can help you find calm, clarity, and balance.
Executive Functions: Working With Your Brain, Not Against It
When ADHD makes even simple tasks feel impossible, it’s not laziness. Rebecca Osterlee explains how understanding your brain’s “air traffic control system” can help you stop fighting your mind, find compassion, and work in sync with your ADHD.
Open Window, Open Mind: ADHD and Understanding Your Window of Tolerance
Ever feel like your emotions are running the show? The window of tolerance explains why ADHD brains become dysregulated so easily—and how tuning into your body’s signals can help you return to calm, clarity, and emotional balance.
Navigating the Pressure of Perfection
The pressure to curate a “perfect” life online comes at a cost. Discover the freedom and connection found in authentic self-expression.
When ADHD Is The Invisible Third Wheel In Your Relationship
ADHD doesn’t just affect individuals—it can quietly shape relationship dynamics, too. This article explores how ADHD can act as a hidden third wheel in couples, and offers practical insights for recognizing its impact, fostering empathy, and rebuilding connection as a team.
ADHD & Me: A Psychologist’s Surprise Diagnosis
When a psychologist discovers her own ADHD in her late 30s, everything changes. From parenting struggles to people-pleasing burnout, this powerful article explores how an overlooked diagnosis helped her rewrite a lifetime of self-doubt with clarity, compassion, and pride.
5 Practical Strategies to Help Handle Your Child’s Tantrums and Challenging Behaviours
Tantrums and emotional outbursts can leave parents feeling overwhelmed. This article offers 5 practical, compassionate strategies to support your child’s emotional regulation by addressing the deeper causes behind their behaviour—building stronger relationships through empathy, connection, and calm guidance.
Bigger Isn’t Bad: Learning to Talk Positively to Your Children about Food
Explore how everyday comments about food and bodies shape children’s beliefs. This article offers practical strategies to shift the conversation, challenge harmful norms, and help kids develop a healthier relationship with eating and body image—starting with what we say and how we say it.
Instagram Says I’m a Bad Mom
Social media fuels unrealistic parenting standards, leaving many moms feeling anxious and inadequate. This article explores how perfectionism takes hold, especially for highly sensitive parents, and offers strategies to build self-trust, connection with your child, and self-compassion in the face of overwhelming expectations.
More than a Meal: Parenting a Child with an Eating Disorder
Explore how eating disorders intertwine with identity and emotions, making recovery complex. This article offers insights into supporting your child through their struggles with validation, emotional tolerance, and identity formation. Discover practical strategies to help them heal.
Getting Angry at Work
Anger at work can be overwhelming, but recognizing your triggers and using practical techniques like deep breathing and time-outs can help. Explore how you can manage your anger, uncover the emotions behind it, and find long-term solutions with professional support.
Making Mental Health Care Accessible: Affordable Therapy Without Compromise
Transforming Emotions is dedicated to making high-quality mental health care accessible to everyone. Our affordable therapy services, including sessions with Qualifying Therapists, provide compassionate, professional support at rates that fit your budget—ensuring cost is never a barrier to care.
Managing My Feelings in Good Times and Bad
Understand the dynamics of emotional management in this insightful article. Uncover the reasons behind fluctuating stress and anxiety levels and access practical strategies for smoother navigation.
Building Strength: Getting Into Therapy for Men
Too many men I’ve talked to think therapy will make them weak, choosing to go it alone and “be strong.” In this article I want to reframe the way you think about therapy….
Parenting Power Struggles: Understanding Your Child’s Behaviour
When it comes to understanding child behaviour, it’s important to consider the emotions that are driving them. In this article, we’ll learn four parenting techniques to take us from assumption and reaction to curiosity and connection.
The Student’s Guide to Mental Health Care: Affordable Options for Ontario Students
Balancing coursework, work, and social life is challenging for students. Affordable therapy is crucial but often feels out of reach. This guide shows how to access therapy through student insurance, sliding scale rates, and Qualifying Therapists in Ontario, making mental health care attainable.
“Who Am I in My Life?” Using Therapy to Find Your Voice
Do you feel like you’re playing a role in your life that doesn’t reflect who you are or want to be? Emotion Focused Therapy can help you make sense of these feelings and create a better sense of who you are.
The Benefits of a Mental Health Tune-Up: Entering the New Year with Clarity and Confidence
The new year is a time for reflection and renewal. A mental health tune-up provides a space to reduce stress, reconnect with your values, and set meaningful goals. Enter 2025 with clarity, confidence, and resilience.
Top 5 Myths About Affordable Therapy Debunked
Many misconceptions about affordable therapy create barriers for those in need. This article debunks myths around quality, therapist experience, and personalization—showing that affordable therapy, especially with supervised therapists, can offer effective, compassionate, and individualized mental health support.
How Can I Create a Healthy Relationship with Food?
A healthy relationship with food means enjoying what you eat without guilt or judgment. Learn to trust your body, challenge restrictive beliefs, and find balance.
Can Therapy Help Me Set Goals for the New Year?
Setting New Year’s goals doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. Therapy can help you align your aspirations with your values, overcome barriers, and create actionable steps for personal growth. Start the year with clarity and purpose.
How-To: Communicating In Your Relationship
Struggling with communication in your relationship? Learn how to identify communication styles, practice empathy, and improve conversations with practical tips and strategies. Foster connection and understanding with your partner for a stronger, healthier relationship.
Is Emotional Eating Always Bad?
Emotional eating can be normal and comforting. The key is understanding when it helps you and when it might indicate deeper emotional needs that require attention.
