December 2025

CBT

Changing Unhelpful Thought Patterns: A CBT Skill You Can Practice

Our minds are busy places. When stress, grief, or overwhelm show up, it’s common for our thinking to narrow—looping into self-criticism, worst-case scenarios, or harsh conclusions about ourselves and others. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) offers practical tools for working with these patterns—not by forcing positivity, but by helping us relate to our thoughts with more […]

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rest

The 7 Types of Rest: Why Holiday Downtime Still Leaves Us Tired (and What to Do About It)

The holidays are often framed as a time to rest. Time off work. Slower mornings. Fewer meetings. And yet, many people arrive at January feeling depleted, foggy, or oddly unmotivated—wondering why all that “time off” didn’t translate into feeling restored. At Juniper Counselling, we often remind clients: rest isn’t one-size-fits-all. True rest goes far beyond

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Climate Doom to Messy Hope Handbook

This handbook is grounded in a commitment to fostering deeper understandings and connections to how we can support magnifying climate change impacts on individual and community mental health and wellbeing. The goal of this resource is to offer an accessible, easy-to-engage touchpoint for people looking to connect with climate wellbeing information, strategies and pathways to

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Overwhelm

What to Do When You’re Overwhelmed but Still High-Functioning

For people who look “fine” on the outside but feel exhausted on the inside. In Port Moody, Coquitlam, and the wider Tri-Cities, so many people are juggling demanding careers, families, caregiving roles, community commitments—and still showing up with a smile. On paper, everything looks “fine.” Inside? Not so much. This experience has a name: high-functioning

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