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Jey Kirouac, Person-Centered Therapist
Online counselling in English & French
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How Can I Lose Me?
Reclaiming Our -Self within the Relationship Relationships are difficult. A constant balancing act. And for some of us, losing ourselves in them isn't a dramatic decision — it's a quiet pattern we find ourselves inside of, again and again, without quite understanding how we got there. It's not conscious. There's no moment where we decide: I will now set myself aside for this person. And yet somehow, here we are. Losing ourselves. What a concept. How can I lose a thing I am in
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Jun 1712 min read


Online Therapy for Expats, Parents Abroad & Third Culture Kids (TCKs)
Online therapy for expats, parents abroad, and individuals living between cultures. Support for cultural adjustment, identity shifts, emotional overwhelm, homesickness, expat loneliness, and raising children between cultures.
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May 283 min read


Online Therapy for Life Transitions, Grief & Periods of Waiting
Life changes can bring uncertainty, grief, emotional overwhelm, and questions about identity. Online therapy offers a supportive space to process change and navigate transitions with greater clarity and grounding.
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May 243 min read


Online Therapy for Emotional Awareness & Relational Patterns
You may understand your patterns and still feel stuck. Emotional awareness is not only about insight—it is about noticing what happens in real moments, relationships, and within yourself. Explore relational dynamics, boundaries, authenticity, and emotional patterns through online therapy in English and French.
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May 213 min read


Why understanding yourself doesn't automatically create change
You may understand your patterns, recognize your emotions, and know exactly what keeps happening—yet still find yourself reacting in the same ways. Insight can bring clarity, but understanding yourself does not always create change on its own. This article explores emotional awareness, blind spots, and why self-understanding is often only the beginning.
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May 164 min read


Retirement and Identity: Navigating the Emotional Transition After Work
Retirement can feel freeing — yet unexpectedly disorienting. After years of structure and identity through work, many individuals experience uncertainty, emotional shifts, or a sense of loss. This article explores retirement as an identity transition and how therapy can support emotional adjustment, purpose, and navigating this new phase of life.
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Apr 224 min read


Relational Experiments: Why We Understand Ourselves but Still Feel Stuck in Relationships
You can understand yourself and still feel stuck in relationships. In real moments, something shifts—you hold back, adapt, or react in ways that don’t feel like you. This article explores why insight alone isn’t enough, and how practicing in real time through relational experiments can help you experience something different.
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Apr 204 min read


Looking for an Online Therapist?
We often search for therapy when something isn’t working anymore—feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or caught in overthinking. Even when we understand why, nothing truly shifts. This approach to online therapy focuses on emotional awareness, relational patterns, and present-moment experience. Instead of quick fixes, we begin to understand what’s happening inside us—allowing deeper, lasting change to unfold.
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Apr 115 min read


Why Life Transitions Feel So Disorienting — And How Therapy Can Help
Life transitions don’t always look dramatic. We may still be functioning and showing up — yet feel unsettled. Relocation, career changes, or relationship shifts can disrupt identity, stability, and direction. This is not just change, but psychological reorganization. In this article, we explore why transitions feel disorienting and how therapy can support us through uncertainty.
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Mar 273 min read


Waiting for Therapy: Anxiety, Stress & Support While You Wait
Waiting for therapy can feel overwhelming and uncertain. Learn how to cope and find support while you wait.
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Mar 243 min read


Why Talking to a Therapist Helps: What Happens When We Set Aside Time to Talk
Many people hesitate before starting therapy because they wonder something very simple: How can talking for one hour actually help? After all, we talk to friends, partners, and family members all the time. What makes therapy conversations different? The difference is not just the conversation itself — it is the space, attention, and emotional safety created during that conversation. Why Talking Helps the Brain Process Experience When difficult emotions remain inside, they can
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Mar 193 min read


Raising Children Between Cultures : The Emotional Side of Expat Parenting
Raising Children Between Cultures : The Emotional Side of Expat Parenting Raising children between two cultures can feel deeply meaningful — and at times, emotionally complex. Many parents living abroad notice moments of tension. A desire to offer stability while life itself feels in transition. Questions around language, identity, and belonging. The challenge of supporting a child’s adjustment while navigating their own emotional experience. Sometimes, a quiet question appea
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Mar 172 min read


When Violence Appears in the News: The Emotional Impact on Expats Living in Mexico
When Violence Appears in the News: The Emotional Impact on Expats Living in Mexico When Violence Appears in the News: The Emotional Impact on Expats Living in Mexico. Most expats who move to Mexico discover something different from what international headlines often suggest. Daily life is usually calm. Communities feel welcoming. The rhythm of life can feel more human and connected. Many international residents build meaningful lives here — creating friendships, raising chil
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Mar 64 min read


What Is a Humanistic Approach?
An introduction to person-centered therapy as a humanistic approach, focusing on emotional awareness, inner authority, and authentic relati
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Jan 274 min read


Navigating Emotions During the Holiday Season
A gentle reflection on emotions during the holiday season — honouring overwhelm, tenderness, joy, and everything in between.
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Nov 30, 20252 min read


Growing Up Between Worlds -
Third Culture Kid (TCK) A personal story for expats in Mexico Being a TCK, Living Abroad, and Finding Your Own Inner Home There’s a unique kind of complexity that comes with growing up between cultures — the mix of adaptability, confusion, resilience, and invisible grief that often follows us into adulthood. I know this experience intimately. Not only because I work with Third Culture Kids (TCKs) and expats today — but because I am one. My Story: Growing Up in Three Worlds
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Nov 13, 20254 min read


May I be kind to myself
Right here. Right now. It’s like this…
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Nov 8, 20252 min read


What Therapy Really Is
So, what’s therapy…?
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Nov 2, 20252 min read
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