Welcome to Mindful Growth: Mental Health & Wellness Blog in Ontario
- Lindsey Hutchings, BScN
- Feb 21, 2024
- 4 min read
Updated: Sep 13
Welcome to Mindful Growth: Mental Health & Wellness Blog in Ontario
Struggling with stress, relationships, or parenting? Mindful Growth is your wellness blog for mental health in Ontario. I’m Lindsey Hutchings, RN, Psychotherapist, and my practice LAH Counselling & Psychotherapy aims to increase access to improved mental health by offering both individual counselling sessions and public education via this blog, Mindful Growth. This blog supports anyone looking to get serious about their mental health. From single working professionals to married homemakers, and from some just starting out on their journey's while others are nearing their ends. With a little effort and support, everyone can experience better mental health. Covered by some insurance companies, LAH Counselling also offers direct billing for Canadians covered by Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB), Book a free consultation today.
Why Mindful Growth?
The name Mindful Growth reflects my mission to support others in growing with intention, through mindful awareness of their needs. By providing mental health education, this blog aims to give others a better understanding of Please note that the content on this blog is intended for educational purposes only and should not be taken as personalized mental health advice. Always consult a qualified professional for guidance tailored to your unique needs.
Meet the Author: Lindsey Hutchings, RN, Psychotherapist
I’m Lindsey Hutchings, a Registered Nurse, Psychotherapist with university degrees from Western, Stellenbosch, and McGill. As a mom of two and a business owner, I understand the challenges of balancing multiple responsibilities and finding time to care for yourselves. As hard as you work, you end the day feeling discourage and disconnected. I find education the best form of empowerment, so my blog, Mindful Growth, aims to deliver mental health information in a practical understandable way.
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Psychotherapy and Healthy Relationships
Psychotherapy fosters healthy relationships through education in assertive communication, emotion regulation, and conflict resolution. Whether you’re a nurse managing workplace dynamics or a desk worker navigating family ties, these skills build stronger bonds. Mindful Growth’s blog explores boundary setting to protect your energy. My LAH Wellness workshops, launching in 2026, will teach these skills, with 2025 blog content shaping future courses. Start learning today.
Psychotherapy and Stress Management
Psychotherapy offers education in stress management, teaching grounding skills, mindfulness, and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for calm. Whether you’re a first responder facing high-pressure shifts or a parent juggling responsibilities and schedules, Mindful Growth’s blog provides information to help you better understand your needs and the consequences of your actions. While my online psychotherapy services support Ontario residents, this blog will develop content for future LAH Wellness courses, with workshops launching in 2026.
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Psychotherapy supports parenting with education in child developmental stages, emotion regulation and self-care, fostering calmer, more nurturing homes. For parents, whether shift workers or home-makers, Mindful Growth’s blog, inspired by “Healed Moms Heal Homes,” educates on healthy family dynamics and how caring for yourself is essential. Learn about changes you can make to your thoughts or way of speaking to create more calm both in your home and in yourself.
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Mindful Growth empowers women’s mental health with psychotherapy education relevant to the female experience like being conditioned to be self-sacrificing, people-pleasing or have perfectionistic tendencies. Women can learn how these behaviours contribute to their suffering and how to they have the choice to leave these behaviours behind.
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Starting Psychotherapy in Ontario: 01 Four Signs You Could Benefit Starting Psychotherapy in Ontario: 02 Finding the Right Psychotherapist
People affected by trauma have specific needs when it comes to finding a psychotherapist and choosing the right type of therapy. Mindful Growth will include posts specific to trauma to discuss these unique considerations. This blog will discuss how how nervous system react differently after trauma and how psychotherapy can supports the development of skills to manage symptoms.
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Accessing Psychotherapy Services in Ontario
While still challenging, finding psychotherapy in Ontario is made easier with resources like the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy (OSP) Program for free CBT, Psychology Today for therapist directories, the Affordable Therapy Network for low-cost options, and the NPAO Registry for nurse psychotherapists. Mindful Growth complements these with mental health and wellness content and online therapy, including NIHB direct billing for eligible clients. Explore these resources to start your mental health journey. While there continues to exist barriers to accessing psychotherapy services in Ontario, there are some resources that make it possible. Some insurance companies provide some coverage and programs like the OSP Program offers a fixed number of session for adults with mild to moderate mental health conditions. Some individual therapists offer sliding-scale, which allows for reduced fees for eligible clients.
No Insurance?
While I hope to offer sliding scale in the future, here are ways to access more affordable psychotherapy services:
What’s Next for Mindful Growth?
Mindful Growth’s upcoming posts include a “Starting Psychotherapy in Ontario” series that aims to remove some of the mystery associated with beginning psychotherapy services. In 2025, this blog will develop content for future LAH Wellness courses, with workshops and online modules launching in 2026. Subscribe for weekly psychoeducation on stress, parenting, and more. Book a free consultation at 343.338.5684 or lindsey.hutchings@LAHCounselling.ca to start your mental health journey in Ontario!
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