Wellness Articles
WHAT IS MINDFULNESS-BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY?
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) aims to support and help folks that are struggling with depression and feelings of chronic unhappiness and low mood. The treatment uses the practices of cognitive-behavioral therapy combined with mindfulness-based practices...
How to Maintain Mental Health During Tough Times
Why is Mental Health Important? Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. This type of health is important at...
Pregnancy and Mental Health
As women, we go through several stages of growth and development, including pregnancy. It feels like yesterday you were young; you felt free as a child. I recall a lady recalling a statement her mum used to make, "You are no spring chicken anymore," She would always...
Front line workers and Burnout
Providing support and resources for front line workers in the helping profession has been long neglected as incorporated practice. The recent pandemic has only highlighted the deficits within the systemic support for people within the helping profession. Current...
Anxiety – Myths, Facts, and Hope
Anxiety is a part of the everyday human experience, worries and fears regarding health, family problems, life transitions, money, and world events are a part of life. Anxiety can be best characterized as when these worries and fear become more than a temporary...
Neurodiversity – What is it and Why Should We Understand it?
What is Neurodiversity? Neurodiversity is the practice of viewing brain deviations such as Learning Disabilities, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) , Neurodiversity is the practice of viewing brain deviations such as Learning Disabilities, Autism, Asperger’s...
How Crossroads Collective Offers Affordable Counselling in Langley
Have you been wanting to give counselling a shot, but haven’t been able to put the funds asideto make it happen? It can be quite the added expense during the holiday season. Thankfully, atCrossroads Collective in Langley, we have a solution for you. We know just how...
What is Virtual Counselling & Why Does Crossroads Collective Offer It
For as long as we can remember, if we needed a service, we went out to a brick and mortar location to receive it. But, over the past several years, things have changed with the evolution of technology. Nowadays, if you need a counselling service, it’s possible to work...
The Importance of Doing Play Therapy in Person
One thing we know here at Crossroads Collective, is that therapy looks different for everyone. This especially applies to children! When a child is dealing with something difficult, they will almost always show it, it simply may not be in the way that we recognize as...
The history of Crossroads Collective
One thing’s for sure, everybody heals in such different ways. As a person embarks on a healing journey, they rarely fit a “one size fits all” model and almost never do they experience a linear process. At Crossroads Collective, if there's anything we are clear on it’s...
