Dr. Karma Guindon, RSW & Associates

Negative thoughts aren’t always “thinking errors.” Often, they’re signs your survival brain is activated and trying to protect you. Learn how survival brain negative thinking works, why logic alone doesn’t always help, and what actually supports more balanced, flexible thinking.

New ways of understanding and healing mental illness What if the things we call mental illness  - depression, anxiety, dissociation, chronic pain, even personality disorders - aren’t really illnesses in the usual sense? What if they’re actually signs of a brain and nervous system that went through something overwhelming and shocking and had to adapt to survive? People working in trauma and neuroscience - like Ruth Lanius, Frank Corrigan, Gabor Maté, and Bessel van der Kolk -

A lot of people wonder why certain patterns in relationships, thoughts, or emotions feel impossible to shift, even when they’ve tried everything. Sometimes the answer goes right back to the very beginning - how our nervous system firsts detects and responds to safety and connection. Healing isn’t just about talking through problems, changing thoughts and behaviours, or understanding our past - it’s about helping the brain and body heal deeply so that it can rediscover safety

DBR® is a promising therapy for getting at the root of mental health and relationship problems for lasting healing.