Once a month I sit with one of our couples' therapists to discuss Building Healthy Relationships!!! This week I am On the Couch with Akilah Riley-Richardson and we are talking about What It Takes to do Couples Therapy. At Wholeness and Wellness Counselling we offer individual and couples counselling services for adolescents and adults. Reach us at 347-1042 or email at [email protected] #nofilter #showupasyouare2019 #wearingauthenticity #workingwithtruth #emotionalauthenticity #trinidadandtobago #caribbean #growingintruth #howwerisewewalk #truthtalking #rethinkinganxiety

If you are part of an intimate partner relationship, you are probably going to be the first person to notice changes in their mental health. How can you help? What should you focus your attention on? How do you begin to have a conversation about your concerns? On this episode of On The Couch, Clinical Psychologist Keshan Latchman and I discuss how mental illness can affect intimate partner relationships. At Wholeness and Wellness Counselling we offer individual and couples counselling services for adolescents and adults. Reach us at 347-1042 or email at [email protected] #nofilter #showupasyouare2019 #wearingauthenticity #workingwithtruth #emotionalauthenticity #trinidadandtobago #caribbean #growingintruth #howwerisewewalk #truthtalking #rethinkinganxiety

In this episode of On The Couch, Drama Therapist Karline Brathwaite and I speak about our recent research project "Why You Wanna Fly?" This was a research project that examined how people living with mental illness experience self and social stigma. Stigma is the biggest obstacle to accessing treatment and care. We can all play a part in improving the lives of people living mental illness. At Wholeness and Wellness Counselling we offer individual and couple counselling services for adolescents and adults. Reach us at 347-1042 or email at [email protected] #nofilter #showupasyouare2019 #wearingauthenticity #workingwithtruth #emotionalauthenticity #trinidadandtobago #caribbean #growingintruth #howwerisewewalk #truthtalking #rethinkinganxiety

What happens when you experience stress? Do you know before you start feeling the emotions related to stress, there are a host of activities occurring in your brain and body? In this episode, Counselling Psychologist Trishsanna Poyah-Rasul and I discuss how we react to stress in our body and how these reactions can affect future generations to come. At Wholeness and Wellness Counselling we offer individual and couple counselling services for adolescents and adults. Reach us at 347-1042 or email at [email protected] #nofilter #showupasyouare2019 #wearingauthenticity #workingwithtruth #emotionalauthenticity #trinidadandtobago #caribbean #growingintruth #howwerisewewalk #truthtalking #rethinkinganxiety

On this episode of On the Couch, Drama Therapist Karline Brathwaite and I discuss single hood and how we should feel more comfortable in this status. In the Caribbean especially, there are many social factors that make us feel like we have to be married or in a relationship to be complete, but this is not so. Let us find ourselves as individuals before we try to be be in a couple.   At Wholeness and Wellness Counselling we offer individual and couple counselling services for adolescents and adults. Reach us at 347-1042 or email at [email protected] #nofilter #showupasyouare2019 #wearingauthenticity #workingwithtruth #emotionalauthenticity #trinidadandtobago #caribbean #growingintruth #howwerisewewalk #truthtalking #rethinkinganxiety

In this bonus episode of On the Couch, my colleague Clinical Social Worker Akilah Riley-Richardson and I discuss how mind reading can sabotage our relationships. You know what mind reading is right? Those times when you know what your partner is thinking so you act accordingly - you accuse them, you jump to conclusions and you act from a place of authority ... because you know what’s really going on! Akilah and I discuss why mind reading in an unhealthy practice which will undermine healthy relationships.

In this episode of On The Couch, Clinical Psychologist Roma Latchman and I discuss how a person with anxiety feels and ways in which they can control and 'switch off' their anxieties. We understand that dealing with anxiety is a very real battle that people face and it is not an easy one to fight, but it is a fight that you can win. At Wholeness and Wellness Counselling we offer individual, couple and group counselling services for adolescents and adults. Reach us at 347-1042 or email at [email protected] #nofilter #showupasyouare2019 #wearingauthenticity #workingwithtruth #emotionalauthenticity #trinidadandtobago #caribbean #growingintruth #howwerisewewalk #truthtalking #rethinkinganxiety

In this episode of On The Couch, Drama Therapist Karlene Brathwaite and I discuss how we can prevent suicide and the signs of a person who may attempt suicide. Remember to really listen to your loved ones, without judgement, and let them know that you want to help them in what they may be struggling with. At Wholeness and Wellness Counselling we offer individual, couple and group counselling services for adolescents and adults. Reach us at 347-1042 or email at [email protected] #nofilter #showupasyouare2019 #wearingauthenticity #workingwithtruth #emotionalauthenticity #trinidadandtobago #caribbean #growingintruth #howwerisewewalk #truthtalking #rethinkinganxiety

In this episode of On the Couch, Counselling  Psychologist Trishsanna Poyah-Rasul and I discuss why it may not be a good idea to diagnose yourself based on internet search results.  While the internet is a powerful tool which educates and empowers, it can also be the source of great harm.  You are a complex human being and no search engine can tell definitively about our mental health.  On the Couch is a weekly video series presented by Dr Tracie Rogers, Managing Director of Wholeness and Wellness Counselling Services - we offer individual and group therapy that addresses emotional/mental health concerns.  #nofilter #showupasyouare2019 #wearingauthenticity #workingwithtruth #emotionalauthenticity #trinidadandtobago #caribbean #growingintruth #howwerisewewalk #truthtalking

So you have started to build your meditation practice. You have located a comfortable space and the right chair or cushion. You close your eyes or lower your gaze, everything is right ..... except for all those thoughts in your head!!! It’s noisy in there!! What are you to do with all those thoughts? How do you turn them off? In this episode, I demonstrate a short meditation session with tips for managing intrusive thoughts and finding inner stillness.