Fernanda Selayzin Souza, MEd, MCP, RCC

#psychotherapist - close relationships, sexuality, anxiety, depression, burnout, grief, anger, identity, trauma, intergenerational & crosscultural challenges.

[Fernanda Selayzin Souza, MEd, MCP, RCC @FernandaPsych]

On Intimacy and Sexual Relationships, my recent article in Insights, the @bccounsellors 's magazine. Weblink to full text soon!

[Fernanda Selayzin Souza, MEd, MCP, RCC @FernandaPsych]

@remasculine_ Becky Kennedy’s take? how about consistent authoritative parenting? Just got to know about your work through my daughter - recently turned UBC med student working in the DTES. She was very grateful to have been in the audience yesterday and told me all about it 💐🙏🏼

[Fernanda Selayzin Souza, MEd, MCP, RCC @FernandaPsych]

@brudeoliveiraa gostaria muito de ter a oportunidade de ler o seu trabalho. [email protected] com gratidão 🙏🏼

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[Fernanda Selayzin Souza, MEd, MCP, RCC @FernandaPsych]

@amyfaithho @elisa_comer especially if he is on blood thinners…. subdural hematomas, etc. violence and gun violence 💔

[Fernanda Selayzin Souza, MEd, MCP, RCC @FernandaPsych]

@RianKMD @MarkLRuffalo @chrisaikenmd I keep all 5 copies in sight at my office when I am in session so I can keep perspective on diagnoses for what they are: provisional **constructs** and representations of a sociocultural and historical time.

[Dr Naomi Murphy @NMPsychologist]

Interoception is the recognition and processing of bodily sensations inside the body. The most obvious examples are knowing when you’re thirsty or when you need to go to bed, detecting a quickening of your heartbeat or your breathing or recognising you need to visit the bathroom. But interoception also helps us recognise when someone is important to us, tells us we miss them when they go away or alerts us to when a relationship has soured.

When we’re attuned to our interoception it can help us make decisions that are congruent with how we really feel. It can help us be more authentic.

But people differ in their ability to detect changes in their physiological state.

As with our other senses, some of us are born with more awareness. Some of us can do it easily. But others find it much harder. Some of this ability is probably inherited. But we also know that a lack of attention to our inner state early in life might make this superpower shrink. If you were told “not to cry” when you were upset, you learn to ignore the internal signs that you’re sad. If your dad never said he was proud of you, maybe you don’t learn how to savour the sense of achievement you get when something goes well. If cuddles were rare, you lose familiarity with wanting to reach out to others for comfort. If you were frightened of your mum, you might not notice loneliness when you’re on your own.

In the same way that it can wither, it can also be nurtured. In sensorimotor therapy, a lot of attention is given to helping people notice what their heart and gut see to help people acknowledge understand why they might be stuck feeling and behaving in ways that seem irrational to their minds.

You don’t have to go to therapy to hone the ability to read what all of your body can see.

Try noticing the sensations you have when you see a loved one, when you listen to a favourite song, when you look outside your window. As with wine tasting, the more you savour the experience, the more you will be able to detect change.

But if you’d like to know more about how it might work in therapy, feel free to get in touch.

[Dr. Sue Johnson @Dr_SueJohnson]

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[Fernanda Selayzin Souza, MEd, MCP, RCC @FernandaPsych]

@Dr_SueJohnson changed the paradigm in couples and family therapy by bridging the gap between objects relations theory and family systems. She went further than The Gottmans by bringing attachment theory and research into the adult therapy room. Her legacy lives on in our work.

[Fernanda Selayzin Souza, MEd, MCP, RCC @FernandaPsych]

@Dr_SueJohnson changed the paradigm in couples and family therapy by bridging the gap between objects relations theory and family systems. She went further than The Gottmans by bringing attachment theory and research into the adult therapy room. Her legacy lives on in our work.

[Dr. Sue Johnson @Dr_SueJohnson]

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Sue Johnson on April 23, 2024. Dr. Johnson was a beloved teacher, therapist, author, and the pioneering innovator of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT).

Read Obituary and watch tribute video: https://t.co/zako3lGGgP

[Dr Naomi Murphy @NMPsychologist]

Heart-brain coherence is defined by the research director of the HeartMath Institute, Rory McCraty as “the state when the heart, mind and emotions are in energetic alignment and co-operation. It is a state that builds resilience”.

This is why it’s so important that therapists genuinely like and care about their clients.
When therapy is offered by someone with a living, beating heart experiencing positive emotions for the person they’re relating to, the person often senses it. As individuals we operate like finely tuned ecosystems. There’s two-way communication between our brain and our heart. Our heart has its own cardiac nervous system consisting of 40,000 neurons which create heartbeats sending messages to the brain. Positive emotions lead to a smooth coherent heart rhythm which calms our brain and our body.

When we sit in a room with someone else, our ecosystem extends beyond our body. The heart’s electromagnetic energy field is 5000 times greater than the brain and influences our own bodily rhythm. But it can be also detected via ECG (electrocardiogram) in another person sitting nearby. So, when you sit in a room with a therapist who feels warmly and compassionately towards you, you will often sense it. This is why we are a long way off AI therapy being able to soothe and nourish you in a way that another person can.

[Fernanda Selayzin Souza, MEd, MCP, RCC @FernandaPsych]

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[Fernanda Selayzin Souza, MEd, MCP, RCC @FernandaPsych]

came across his work through a really smart client who is a prominent professional in tech and am now recommending the youtube-based show and this much anticipated book! @HealthyGamerGG has been making excellent contributions to the conversation about masculinity.

[Healthy Gamer @HealthyGamerGG]

how it started: how it's going:

[Fernanda Selayzin Souza, MEd, MCP, RCC @FernandaPsych]

@HealthyGamerGG super recommending your work to my clients. thank you for your fundamentally important contributions 💐

[Fernanda Selayzin Souza, MEd, MCP, RCC @FernandaPsych]

@tobyshorin also my close friend may be able to help @anitaracicmd