Bruce Small Therapist
21 Carlton St., Unit 3407 M5B 1L3 Toronto, ON, Canada

I have been busy, and have neglected this site. Sorry for the long silence. Much of my work as a therapist has involved helping others emerge from pasts that felt benign, but included anything from subtle to blatant traumatizing events. Some continue to experience high stress in the form of difficult relationships, poisonous job atmospheres, overloaded school programs, poverty and/or financial dependency, aging, isolation and many other common life circumstances. Here is a b...ook I recently found that very clearly describes how all of us experience some kind of trauma sooner or later, and how we can use natural methods to heal with the help of support from other humans around us. https://www.amazon.ca/Transformation-Healing-//ref=sr_1_1

Why do we learn how to control ourselves so well that we don't cause problems for others, even those oppressing us? Internalized oppression is a strange phenomenon, but few of us are exempt from it. https://youtu.be/Vhk_JUKTxn4

Why is illogic so popular in arguments? Is it fighting dirty to be illogical when trying to make or refute a point? Is there a better way to engage in discussion?

It's video time again folks! This time I have ventured into green screen technology and into creating more interesting video backgrounds. But the subject is still the same: why are people so weird? Humans are endlessly fascinating ...

There's really nothing funny about someone who abuses you and then calls you crazy. But sometimes it takes a light-hearted look at something to hold the real craziness up to the light.

Therapy is not always dull, serious and difficult. It can be fun too ...

Have medical labels stuck to you? Did you internalize them?

Mind and body are connected. You have a neck. Let's take that into account when we do psychotherapy!

It is OK to shoot for real change in therapy. Why just cope if you can solve a problem?

Here's something to think about the next time you or someone around you gets sick.

Do you need psychotherapy like a hole in the head? Thanks to discussions with my brilliant husband Jojo Carreon and good counselling by Andrew Kyle McGregor and MF Hanlon McGranlon, I have an addition to my therapy website: http://www.envirodesic.com/brucesmall/holeinthehead.html

I currently have a few unfilled openings for counselling people with severe financial restrictions. Please contact me at the co-ordinates listed in my website to discuss this possibility confidentially if it fits your present circumstances. Feel free to let others know who might be able to benefit from this. http://www.brucesmall.com

Click below for an interview that I did on internalized oppression with friend Andrew McGregor: http://www.thehermitslamp.com/20//how-do-we-fix-the-world/

Rainbow chairs in my psychotherapy office. Sometimes my clients and I use them to represent different aspects of a person's personality.

I have just begun a blog that will help me share my ideas about helping people change.