Naturally unfolding who we are through feeling, and connecting to our life experience are essential processes for achieving emotional health. Feeling our feelings is key to knowing who we are and what we need. It allows us to stay connected to ourselves.

We are born with the ability, and need, to fully express our emotions of joy, fear, rage, hurt, 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 learned, out of our helplessness as children, to please our caregiver -most often a parent. This is done, unknowingly, at a great cost to our 'self.'

As a result, we suffer emotionally with unfinished feelings and unmet needs that accumulate 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 when we are not able to feel our feelings. Holding onto our feelings takes toll on our body and mind. As children we set up defense systems to cope, however they work against us as adults. Click here to read more on Therapy Process...

• Naturally Healing Through Crying

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For over 5 years, Holly has been supporting people in their emotional healing as a Psychotherapist. Holly specializes in Deep Emotional Processing Therapy™ which focuses on supporting clients to heal from their past and present trauma and childhood abuse by becoming open to their feelings.

Holly has a degree in Psychology from York University and is also a graduate of Ontario Institute for Studies in Education's Adult Training and Development program. She is a member of Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists and also Canadian Federation of University Women.

In addition, Holly is a certified Family Life Educator with Gordon Training International (Dr. Thomas Gordon, author of Parent Effectiveness Training) and The Aware Parenting Institute (Dr. Aletha Solter, author of The Aware Baby). Holly believes that the key to vibrant and fulfilling relationships lies in solidly knowing ourselves, learning effective communication skills, and having the self awareness to put these skills into practise.