Counselling and sleep therapy services in Vancouver - Sleep, insomnia, anxiety, depression, and stress management focused therapy services in Vancouver BC and Ontario
Working motherhood often means juggling two full-time responsibilities: your job and running your family life. Even when the house quiets down, your mind may still review tomorrow’s meetings, unfinished chores, school schedules, and everything you might have forgotten. You may feel worn out but still struggle to fall asleep, wake […]
Working from home was supposed to make everything easier. No more commute, more flexibility, better work-life balance. But if you have found that your sleep has gotten worse since you started working from home, you are far from alone. Many people who reach out to my practice at Quadra Wellness […]
If you have found yourself lying awake at 3 AM, drenched in sweat, staring at the ceiling and wondering when sleep will ever feel easy again, please know that you are not alone. Sleep changes during perimenopause and menopause affect the vast majority of women, yet this experience is often […]
If you are reading this in the middle of the night, watching the numbers on your alarm clock tick by while your heart races, take a slow, deep breath. You are not broken, and you are far from alone. When sleep feels elusive, the most natural instinct in the world […]
Twice a year, Americans engage in a ritual as old as it is disliked: adjusting their clocks by one hour for daylight saving time (DST). And each spring, when we “lose” that hour, many of us feel it in our bodies, disrupted sleep, sluggish mornings, and days of grogginess as […]
We live in a culture that treats rest as something we have to earn, only after every task is finished or we’re running on empty. But your body doesn’t see rest as a reward; it sees it as a fundamental need. Long before you reach complete burnout, it starts sending […]
It is the middle of the morning. You woke up feeling relatively refreshed, perhaps even a bit energized. You stretch, take a breath, and then out of habit, you glance at your wrist or your phone. Your sleep tracker displays a “poor” score. Suddenly, the energy you felt just a […]
It is the middle of the night. You are staring at the ceiling, feeling the familiar weight of exhaustion, yet your mind feels strangely alert. You might be replaying a conversation from yesterday, worrying about a project due tomorrow, or perhaps you are just feeling a generalized sense of unease. […]
It is 3:00 AM, and you are wide awake. Your mind is already replaying a conversation from yesterday, preparing for a meeting tomorrow, or simply scanning your body for signs of fatigue. In these quiet, dark hours, the bedroom can feel less like a place of rest and more like […]
When you are staring at the ceiling in the middle of the night, watching the minutes tick by, it is entirely understandable to feel a desperate need for relief. You may have scoured the internet and found a variety of viral “sleep tricks,” such as the 3-3-3 rule, Japanese tricks […]