Naturally unfolding who we are through feeling and connecting to our life experience is essential to our emotional health and living our highest potential. Feeling our feelings is the root to knowing who we are, what we need and allows us to stay connected to ourselves.

We are born with the ability and the need to fully express our emotions of deep need, joy, fear, rage, loneliness and grief. It is when we are punished and not allowed to have our feelings as children that we learn to hold and repress them.   We learn, out of our helplessness as children, to please our caregiver.   This is done, unknowingly, at a great cost to our 'self.'

As a result, we suffer emotionally with unfinished feelings and unmet need that accumulates throughout childhood and into our adult life.   Our unfinished feelings and unmet need drive us unconsciously in destructive and unhealthy ways until we bring our awareness to what is happening.

We are suffering in a significant way when we are not able to feel our feelings.   Holding onto our feelings takes toll on our body and mind and as a result we set up defense systems.   Our defense systems helped us to cope when we were children however they work against us as adults. Click here to read more on Therapy Process...

• Naturally Healing Through Crying

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Holly is a practicing Psychotherapist specializing in the area of Deep Emotional Processing Therapy(TM) with Janice Berger & Associates in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.   This form of therapy focuses on supporting clients to heal from past and present trauma and childhood abuse by opening to their feelings.

Holly is also a Certified Parent Effectiveness Training Specialist who has been educating parents in the York Region area with a combination of effective communication and self awareness skills since 2003.   

As a result of hearing clients pain and abuse from childhood, Holly decided to educate parents with skills so they could give their children the carefree childhood they need for emotional health.   She believes that children who feel genuinely loved grow up to be compassionate and capable adults.

Holly's extensive experience is further complemented by her Adult Training & Development, Mediation, Human Resource and Communication training.  

Holly is an active member of Toastmasters International where she continues to enhance her public speaking and leadership skills.

For nearly 20 years, Holly has passionately dedicated time to her relationship with her own two children.