When Your Partner Won’t Go To Couples Therapy
When your partner won’t come to couples therapy, starting on your own is still a real place to begin. A look at what relationship counselling in Ottawa involves when you start alone, how one person changing a pattern changes the relationship, and why you don’t have to wait for your partner to be ready.
Procrastination and Avoidance: How Therapy Helps You Get Unstuck
Procrastination is a behaviour related to avoidance and avoidance is not usually just a time-management problem, but an emotional regulation problem. A look at what keeps the procrastination cycle going, how it is fuelled by anxiety, and how therapy in Ottawa helps you get unstuck.
Therapy Approaches in Ottawa: How We Choose What’s Right For You
Most people know they want therapy before they know what kind. Registered clinical psychologist Michelle Sorensen explains the three approaches Resiliency Clinic uses most, CBT, EMDR, and ACT, how they differ in practice, and how each one gets matched to the person who walks in.
Looking Back on Eight Years of Resiliency Clinic
Eight years ago, Resiliency Clinic was one office without a name and without colleagues. Founder Michelle Sorensen, registered clinical psychologist, on what building it has taught her about staying grounded, and why the personal touch still matters most. This summer marks eight years since I opened the Resiliency Clinic in Ottawa. In spring 2018 I […]
Men’s Mental Health: When It Looks Like Anger, Not Sadness
Men’s mental health often shows up as anger and irritability rather than sadness, and many men wait a long time before reaching out. A look at why so much stays inside, what it costs, and how therapy helps men get support.
The Leadership Trap: Why High Achievers Struggle to Ask for Help
The traits that made you a strong leader can become a ceiling. Registered clinical psychologist Michelle Sorensen on burnout, sustainable leadership, and what actually shifts when high achievers ask for support.
Can AI Replace Therapists? A Clinical Psychologist’s Take
People are asking whether AI will replace therapists. As a clinical psychologist with over 25 years of practice and the founder of a team of close to 30 therapists, it is a question I have thought about carefully. Here are my reflections.
When Trying to Conceive Becomes a Grief Process
For many women trying to conceive, the hardest part isn’t the appointments or the waiting. It’s the grief that builds alongside all of it, with nowhere to go. Every negative test, every month that passes, every pregnancy announcement that lands wrong. Registered clinical psychologist Michelle Sorensen writes about what that grief actually looks like, why the fertility process makes it so hard to process, and what therapy during this time is really for. If you’ve been carrying this quietly, this one is for you.
Why You Can’t Stick to Your Goals (And What Actually Works)
Most New Year’s goals collapse by mid-February—not because you lack discipline, but because they’re built on a flawed premise. The problem isn’t your willpower. It’s that rigid goals don’t work when your nervous system is already in survival mode.Registered clinical psychologist Michelle Sorensen breaks down why traditional goal-setting fails and offers three evidence-based alternatives: building systems instead of outcomes, practicing self-compassion (which actually improves performance), and making changes so small they feel easy.
BPD Treatment in Ottawa: Compassionate, Trauma-Informed Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Searching for BPD treatment in Ottawa? At Resiliency Clinic, we treat borderline personality disorder with compassion, not judgment. Learn how our trauma-informed approach helps you see your symptoms as survival responses—not personality flaws—and begin genuine healing.