ADHD

How to Help Someone with ADHD?

It can be challenging to live with someone with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). When you don’t understand ADHD, it can cause miscommunication and frustration in any relationship. Though the differences may be challenging, this can be a wonderful opportunity to grow and strengthen your relationship with yourself and the...

Couples counselling

Can Couples Counselling Save a Relationship?

The bond between two individuals is highly valued and desired. As crucial as this bond is, it does not come without difficulties. Due to the nature of relationships, it requires both parties to be invested and involved for the relationship to thrive. Effort is required. But it’s easier said than...

Talk therapy

Can Talk Therapy Help Anxiety?

Counselling and psychotherapy, or talk therapy, is when a therapist listens to how someone feels, helps them work through their experiences, and gives them an optimistic approach towards life and mental well-being. To treat, evaluate, and support various mental health conditions, counsellors and psychologists use talk therapy to discuss the...

Dealing With A Draining Job

5 Ways to Deal With A Draining Job

When we talk about mental health and self-care, I think it’s sometimes helpful to think of our bodies as machines. Like any complex machine with many moving parts, we break down over time if we don’t take care of them and provide some routine maintenance. Our bodies and minds need...

Attachment Trauma In Adults

Signs of Attachment Trauma In Adults 

We have this idea as adults that our patterns and behaviours are personal failings—things we should just be able to correct. As a result, we end up feeling ashamed. Some people go Jekyll & Hyde once they’re in a relationship, while others struggle with low self-esteem even when they’re rock...

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The Problem with Self-Care, and How to Fix It

Self-care has become a hot word in what we could call “Insta-therapy” and is often an excuse to sell indulgence as healing. Are videos of people using seven types of serum showing up in your scrolling, too? Self-care is an important concept, but it’s being twisted and used against people...

treatment resistant depression

Anxiety, Depression, or FOMO: Gen Z and Mental Illness

Could the reason for high rates of anxiety and depression in our youth be attributed to FOMO, or is there something else going on?...
anger management therapy

Why We Fight: Comments on Esther Perel’s Video

Some of our most hurtful moments can come at the hand of someone we love. According to Esther Perel and her YouTube presentation, Fight Smarter: Put Escalating Fights on Ice, Esther claims that the reason we fight is because one of three needs....
emotional processing

Men, Women, and Emotional Processing

You’ve heard the phrase, men are from Mars, women are from Venus. The term became popular after the publication of John Gray’s famous self-help book for relationship success. And as true as the sky is blue, men and women process emotion differently...
relationship counselling west vancouver

Why Is Dating So Dang Hard

Gone are the good ol’ days, when you meet someone at a local event, at work, or even at the grocery store. You get their number and wait a few days to make an actual phone call....
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Why You Want Your Ex Back: Especially When you Know It Won’t Work:

You were with someone that you thought was pretty wonderful. You had some good times, and then, some not so good times. For whatever reason, you decided to part ways....
Acceptance and Commitment

The First Steps of Conscious Manifestation: What Ekhart Tolle is Missing

Just 3 days ago, a new YouTube video appeared in my news feed. The First Step of Conscious Manifestation | Conscious Manifestation 2020, by Ekhart Tolle. In the video, Mr. Tolle instructs us on how to handle negative experiences....

New Programs at Boomerang

Newly ADHD Group

We are offering a group for adults who have a new diagnosis of ADHD. This group is intended to help you understand what it means to have a diagnosis of ADHD and how to manage adulting, including in areas of anxiety, relationships, strategies/routines, and accommodations and support medication.

Crunch Lunch

Get something done under the power of body doubling, upping the stakes, and bookending (three techniques we will learn about that help you manage your need for dopamine to complete tasks).

Specialties

We specialize in a variety of neurodiversity, behavioural, anxiety, attention, learning, social, and emotional problems. We also provide family support through parent coaching, counselling, and reunification.