Calm(ish), A Workbook for the Anxious Overthinker is available now!
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Calm(ish), A Workbook for the Anxious Overthinker is available now! ❋
Make Mental Wellness
Your Reality
Welcome to LDM Counselling
We provide a supportive space to explore challenges, gain perspective, and cultivate lasting emotional health.
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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills help children and youth better understand and manage big emotions, cope with stressful situations, and build healthier ways of responding when they feel overwhelmed. Through practical, age-appropriate strategies, young people can strengthen emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, communication, and problem-solving skills—helping them feel more confident and in control of their emotions and relationships.
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The loss of a beloved pet can bring profound grief that is not always fully understood or acknowledged by others. Pet loss support provides a compassionate space to process the bond you shared, the circumstances surrounding your loss, and the emotions that can follow—including sadness, guilt, loneliness, or difficult decisions surrounding end-of-life care. Therapy honours the significance of that relationship while helping you adjust to life after loss and find meaningful ways to carry the connection forward.
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Walking With Grief is specialized training focused on understanding the complexities of grief and loss and providing compassionate, responsive support to those who are grieving. This approach recognizes that grief is a natural and deeply personal experience and helps individuals navigate loss in a way that honours their unique circumstances, emotions, and needs.
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Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on helping children and youth feel safe, understood, and supported within their relationships. By exploring emotional needs, patterns of connection, and experiences that may have affected trust or security, therapy can help young people develop healthier relationships, strengthen emotional regulation, and build a greater sense of safety and confidence in themselves and others.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps children and youth learn how to navigate difficult thoughts and emotions without becoming overwhelmed or controlled by them. Using mindfulness, acceptance, and practical strategies, ACT helps young people build emotional flexibility, identify what matters to them, and make choices that reflect their values. This approach can help build resilience, confidence, and healthier ways of coping with anxiety, stress, and life's challenges.
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Trauma Incident Reduction is a gentle yet powerful method for processing and releasing the emotional impact of past traumas. Through guided reflection in a safe, structured way, TIR helps reduce distress linked to specific experiences, bringing relief, clarity, and a greater sense of peace and control over your life.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps you identify and change unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour that contribute to distress. By learning to recognize thought patterns, you can develop new ways of responding to challenges, manage anxiety or depression more effectively, and build lasting emotional resilience.
Our Approaches
Our Vision
Empowering lives and honouring stories. LDM Counselling envisions a world where every individual, irrespective of background, finds strength in their unique narrative. As a female Indigenous feminist-driven private practice, our vision is to cultivate a space that transcends stereotypes, fostering inclusivity, empowerment, and holistic well-being. We aspire to be a beacon of support, celebrating the diverse stories of individuals, while promoting healing, resilience, and a shared journey towards personal growth and societal transformation.
Our Mission
LDM Counselling is dedicated to providing a safe and inclusive space where individuals and Indigenous communities can explore and navigate their unique journeys. Rooted in feminist principles and Indigenous wisdom, our mission is to foster healing, resilience, and self-discovery. Through culturally sensitive and empowering counselling practices, we aim to dismantle barriers, amplify voices, and co-create pathways towards holistic well-being.
LDM Counselling is committed to promoting equality, embracing diversity, and nurturing a community where every story is honoured and every individual is empowered to thrive.
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Feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck in overthinking loops — even when “nothing is technically wrong”? You’re not alone.
Written by Registered Social Worker Lacey DeCaire-McCabe, MSW, RSW, this compassionate and practical workbook was created for people who are tired of being told to “just relax” and are ready for tools that actually help.
Blending trauma-informed care, evidence-based strategies, and real-life understanding, this book gently guides you through the patterns behind anxiety, burnout, and emotional overload, and shows you how to work with your nervous system instead of fighting it.
Designed for both individuals and professionals, this workbook is ideal for personal use and for clinicians seeking accessible, client-friendly tools to support therapy, psychoeducation, and skill-building.
You deserve tools that work in real life — not just in theory.
This workbook is your quiet companion on the path back to feeling a little more calm(ish).
Purchase on Amazon for delivery or purchase directly for in-person pick up
Feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck in overthinking loops — even when “nothing is technically wrong”? You’re not alone.
Written by Registered Social Worker Lacey DeCaire-McCabe, MSW, RSW, this compassionate and practical workbook was created for people who are tired of being told to “just relax” and are ready for tools that actually help.
Blending trauma-informed care, evidence-based strategies, and real-life understanding, this book gently guides you through the patterns behind anxiety, burnout, and emotional overload, and shows you how to work with your nervous system instead of fighting it.
Designed for both individuals and professionals, this workbook is ideal for personal use and for clinicians seeking accessible, client-friendly tools to support therapy, psychoeducation, and skill-building.
You deserve tools that work in real life — not just in theory.
This workbook is your quiet companion on the path back to feeling a little more calm(ish).
Contact Us
Locations
29 Manitoba Street,
Bracebridge, Ontario
Wahta Health Hub
2350 Kanien'kehá:ka Iohatátie, Bala
Land Rights Acknowledgment
In the spirit of truth, healing, and reconciliation, LDM Counselling acknowledges that our work takes place on the traditional and ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg peoples — including the Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, and Algonquin Nations — as well as the Wendat and the Haudenosaunee (Mohawk) people of Wahta. These lands also remain home to Indigenous communities, including Wasauksing, Shawanaga, Henvey Inlet, Moose Deer Point, and Magnetawan.
This region rests within the traditional territories governed by the Williams and Robinson Huron Treaties. The soil and waterways of Muskoka carry the memory and presence of those who have walked here for generations, leaving teachings, stories, and responsibilities that endure. We acknowledge that these communities were not created by choice, but through the forced structures of colonization and the Indian Act of 1876 — legislation that continues to shape inequity and displacement today. We recognize the enduring impacts of genocide, residential schools, the 60’s Scoop, Day Schools, and systemic oppression and racism.
We honour the strength and resistance of Indigenous peoples who continue to reclaim, revitalize, and rise. We also acknowledge the intersecting harms of colonization on Indigenous African peoples, many of whom were brought to these lands as enslaved people under colonial rule. Their resilience and contributions are woven into this shared history and our collective struggle for justice.
As an Indigenous-led practice, we commit to decolonizing our work through ongoing reflection, accountability, and action — grounding our care in truth, respect, and relational responsibility. May our words be matched by actions that restore balance: protecting the land, honouring the water, and nurturing healing for all our relations — past, present, and future.