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A Trauma Survivor's Guide to the Holidays: Post Covid-19 Lockdown Edition
(an edited version of this post was published in The Conversation) So many things about the holidays were different for all of us last...
Heather B MacIntosh PhD
Dec 19, 20217 min read


Attachment Theory 101: Lessons from the Farmyard Putting it Together
In the last four blog posts we have taken a tour of the farmyard to explore and illustrate four Adult Attachment Styles within the...
Heather B MacIntosh PhD
Dec 7, 20218 min read


Attachment Theory 101 Lessons from the Farmyard, Instalment Four
Maestro the Standardbred Racehorse—Fearful Avoidant Fearful Avoidant Attachment Style I think it was Mark Twain who once quipped, if you...
Heather B MacIntosh PhD
Nov 21, 20217 min read


Attachment Theory 101: Lessons from the Farmyard Instalment Three
Hnaggur the Icelandic Gelding—Grumpy old man or Dismissing Avoidant? Dismissing Avoidant Attachment Style In this post, we are going to...
Heather B MacIntosh PhD
Nov 10, 20218 min read


Attachment Theory 101: Lessons from the Farmyard Instalment Two
Freyja the Icelandic foal—Preoccupied Attachment in a new herd The Pandemic and Attachment The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world....
Heather B MacIntosh PhD
Oct 18, 20217 min read


Attachment Theory 101: Lessons from the Farmyard
When clients enter therapy, one of the first things they want to figure out is why their relationships always seem to turn out the same...
Heather B MacIntosh PhD
Jun 14, 20208 min read
Therapy in the time of Covid-19: A few thoughts and some recommendations for therapists
Social media has been inundated with pictures of people finding creative ways of connecting, human-to-human, in the real world, in this...
Heather B MacIntosh PhD
Jun 6, 202015 min read
LES RELATIONS DE COUPLE ET LES TRAUMAS À L’ÈRE DE LA COVID-19
Traduction française du texte de Dr. Heather MacIntosh par Dr. Noémie Bigras Un gros titre dans le journal The Guardian m’a sauté aux...
Heather B MacIntosh PhD
Apr 27, 202014 min read
Coupling and Trauma in the Context of COVID-19
A headline in the Guardian online jumped out at me this morning, “Lockdowns around the world bring rise in domestic violence”. This...
Heather B MacIntosh PhD
Mar 29, 202012 min read
If it's in the past, why doesn't it stay there?
The comment I hear the most in an early session of therapy with a childhood trauma survivor is--"that's all in the past, I shouldn't have...
Heather B MacIntosh PhD
Mar 10, 20193 min read
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