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Your first therapy session in Toronto: what to actually expect.

Published December 2025

Your first therapy session in Toronto: what to actually expect.
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A woman I'll call M. came to her third session and told me, very quietly, that she had slammed the nursery door the night before. Hard enough that the baby monitor bounced off the dresser. Her husband had looked at her like he didn't know who she was. She hadn't known who she was either. "I am not an angry person," she told me. "I have never been an angry person. What is happening to me?"

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The patterns you didn’t choose: intergenerational trauma, honestly.

A client sat down on my couch a few years ago and said something I've thought about a lot since. "I'm doing my mother's anxiety for her. She never got to feel it, so I'm feeling it for both of us." She wasn't being dramatic. She was being precise. And she was putting words to one of the strangest and most common things I see in this work: people carrying something they didn't start.

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Gottman or EFT — and why most couples need both.

When couples email me asking about couples therapy, one of the most common questions is some version of this: "Do you do Gottman or EFT?" Sometimes they've done their homework. Sometimes they've read an article. Sometimes their sister's therapist used one of the two and they want the other one. I always give them the same answer, which is that I do both, and that I think the "versus" in this question is a little bit of a trick.