16 February 2026
Business Therapy Profiled in Canadian Business
I’m very grateful to have had my Business Therapy practice profiled by journalist Samantha Fink in the latest edition of Canadian Business. The profile was written with care for the sort of nuance that my approach brings to this particular type of work, and I couldn’t be happier with the result. Feel free to have a read!
If you are interested in learning more about my services, about me, or perhaps booking an appointment, please call me at 416-873-7828 or email me at info@downtowntherapy.ca for more information.
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6 October 2025
Physical Injury and Its Effects
I recently came across an essay in the Globe & Mail, by varsity rugby player (and med student) Yingtong Gao. It’s an excellent illustration of what happens when physical injury disrupts our relationship with our body. You can read it for free here.
As someone who has worked with and written about athletes and injury, and who has enough physio receipts to more than relate to these situations, I thought it would be timely to come back to this. I say this because I could likely deliver a thirty-minute talk on how injury not only affects us, physically and emotionally, but how the recovery process can put an extra burden on our lives. And yet, it’s also an opportunity to realign with our connection with our bodies, as well as our priorities.
This is particularly true for those of us who are no longer in our 20s, where the injury healing process is less predictable, not to mention less swift. We can feel robbed. We can beat ourselves up. We can also feel very, very isolated–something Yingtong Gao makes clear in terms of her relationship and tether with her otherwise uninjured teammates. Physical injury can also unlock emotional injuries from our youth and early childhood, depending upon who was there to help us.
Coming back from injury can be a slow and painful process, with no guarantees that we’ll be “our old self” on the other side of recovery (depending upon the extent of the injury, our age and lifestyle, etc). I can go on here (yada yada resilience yada), but the not-knowing can be tough on athletes and non-athletes alike. Add to this a perfectionistic mindset, and it can feel as if the wheels on the bus are falling off.
Coming in to psychotherapy can help people put the pieces together between how they are feeling physically and how they are feeling emotionally. The lack of control, the lack of mastery over our body, gazing longingly at things we used to do which now seem questionable–it’s a lot, and I’ve got lots of experience to help people through this.
If you are interested in learning more about my services, about me, or perhaps booking an appointment, please call me at 416-873-7828 or email me at info@downtowntherapy.ca for more information.
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