Navigate life with greater clarity and calm

Leaf Boat Wellness is a virtual psychotherapy practice created to offer compassionate, evidence-based support for adults across Ontario.

 

Care designed for busy lives.

Why Leaf Boat Wellness?

Leaf Boat Wellness symbolizes navigating life with steadiness, trust, and resilience. Life’s waters may be calm or turbulent. The goal is not to control the waves, but to steady the vessel and move forward with greater clarity and confidence.

Therapy Services

We offer evidence-based therapy for individuals experiencing life confusion or uncertainty, ADHD, anxiety, depression, attachment concerns, narcissistic abuse, PTSD/cPTSD, and trauma.

ARTICLES

 

Honouring Anger

Anger is a potent emotion and does have the possibility to be very destructive. It needs to be honoured and acknowledged in a manner that promotes growth, productivity and healing, and when it’s time to let go.

4 min read

Cultivate Self-Love

Cultivating Self-Love may seem like an easy task on the surface. It’s a phrase that’s used often, but when we look beyond the surface, what does it mean? Ideally, we want to feel good about ourselves, our place in this world, have confidence, and have self-esteem.

6 min read

Trauma Redefined

Trauma is usually thought of as something large such as living through a war, pandemic, rape, or life-threatening event like a car crash. Trauma can happen in our everyday life.

8 min read

Origins of Loneliness

What comes to mind when we think of the word alone? Loneliness, boredom, sadness, fear, or misery? Some others might even say; peace, solitude, privacy, or tranquillity.

3 min read

Why Most Self-Help Books Don’t Work

It seems to ignore the readers current level of capacity to carry those recommended goals and aspirations through. We all have different levels of current capacity which have been dictated by our natural temperament, previous experiences

4 min read

Alone: Turning Loneliness into Solitude

No one is going to save us from our loneliness, nor can they, not in any permanence. When we long for others to complete us that is a prescription for unhealthy relationships and codependency.

5 min read

Having a Healthy Ego

The concept of the ego can be traced back to Sigmund Freud in the Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality (1923). Freud described the personality as comprised of three elements: the id, the ego, and the super-ego.

6 min read

Holding Space: What It Means and Why It Is Important

That exposure of our inner world to others opens the door to fostering connection and building a relationship. When we learn how to hold space for ourselves and others, we strengthen the foundation and build trust.

4 min read

How to Remain Happy Around Negativity

We have all been around people we perceive as negative, and we feel that their presence is not nourishing for us. We can feel trapped among those we think are mean-spirited, complain almost constantly, gossip, or have a generally pessimistic perspective.

2 min read

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