NU Psychology Resource Library
Your centralized hub for understanding mental health, navigating life’s challenges, and finding practical tools that support healing and growth. Explore guides, insights, and therapy resources created by NU psychologists — each written to help you feel informed, supported, and grounded.
Core Mental Health Concerns
Anxiety
Anxiety can show up as worry, tension, or a sense of always being “on.” This guide helps you understand why anxiety happens and what supports can help you feel calmer and more in control.
Social Anxiety
Social anxiety often feels like fear of judgment or performance pressure in everyday interactions. Learn what’s happening beneath the surface and how therapy helps you reclaim confidence and ease.
Depression
Depression affects mood, energy, and the ability to enjoy life. This resource explores emotional, cognitive, and physical symptoms — and the pathways toward feeling lighter and more connected again.
OCD
OCD involves intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors that feel difficult to break. This guide explains how OCD works, why it’s not “just being particular,” and what evidence-based treatment looks like.
Trauma
Trauma can reshape the nervous system, making the world feel unsafe or overwhelming. Learn how trauma responses develop and how trauma-informed therapy helps rebuild a sense of steadiness.
Eating Disorder
Eating disorders often form around deeper emotional pain or pressure to cope. This resource outlines the signs, risks, and supportive therapies that help individuals heal their relationship with food and themselves.
Chronic Stress
Chronic stress can leave you feeling depleted, irritable, and disconnected from yourself. This guide explains why long-term stress impacts your mental and physical health — and how to restore balance.
Burnout / Stress
Burnout makes even simple tasks feel exhausting. Learn how burnout develops and the therapeutic tools that help you rebuild energy, motivation, and emotional resilience.
Sleep Issues
Sleep disruptions impact mood, focus, regulation, and overall well-being. This page explores the mind-body patterns that interfere with rest and how therapy can support restorative sleep.
Neurodiversity & Cognitive Support
ADHD
ADHD affects attention, impulse regulation, emotional rhythms, and task initiation. This resource outlines symptoms across adulthood and how therapy supports real-world functioning.
Executive Functioning (EF)
EF challenges make planning, prioritizing, and follow-through feel difficult. Learn what’s happening in your brain and how targeted strategies can improve daily routine
Emotion Regulation
Dysregulation often looks like big feelings, shutdowns, or difficulty calming after stress. Learn how your nervous system reacts, and how therapy enhances steadiness.
Autism
Autistic individuals may navigate the world with unique sensory, social, and emotional patterns. Learn how therapy can become a supportive space for identity, communication, and self-understanding.
Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity reflects the natural variations in human thinking, learning, and processing. This page helps you understand strengths-based perspectives and tailored supports within therapy.
Identity, Relationships & Life Transitions
Women’s Mental Health
Women often carry invisible emotional, relational, and systemic pressures. This resource explores common concerns and highlights supportive, gender-informed care.
Men’s Mental Health
Men can experience stress, emotional suppression, and identity pressures that go unnoticed. Learn how therapy provides a grounded, supportive space to explore emotional health.
LGBTQ+ Support
LGBTQ+ clients may navigate identity development, relationships, and systemic stressors. This guide outlines affirming care and how therapy can support safety, clarity, and self-expression.
Identity & Life Transitions
Life changes — new roles, endings, beginnings — can stir confusion or emotional shifts. This guide helps you understand transition stress and how therapy supports grounding and clarity.
Relationships
Individual relationship patterns can shape connection, conflict, boundaries, and communication. Explore common relational concerns and how therapy strengthens emotional awareness and relational skills.
Workplace Challenges
Work-related stress, conflict, or burnout can impact mental health and performance. This page explores common workplace struggles and how therapy helps regain stability and confidence.
Boundaries & Assertiveness
Difficulty setting boundaries often comes from learned patterns of people-pleasing or fear of conflict. This resource outlines how therapy helps you build healthier, more confident communication.
Toxic Relationships
Leaving or healing from a toxic dynamic takes time, clarity, and emotional repair. This guide explains common patterns and the therapeutic support that helps you rebuild safety and self-worth.
Confidence & Self-Worth
Self-worth challenges shape how you see yourself, your relationships, and your decisions. This page offers insight into internal narratives and how therapy helps you rewrite them.
Trauma, Emotional Patterns & Healing
Trauma Symptoms
Trauma symptoms can include hypervigilance, emotional numbness, people-pleasing, or tension that won’t settle. This resource explains how these patterns form and how therapy helps calm and reorganize the nervous system.
Identity After Trauma
Trauma can change how you see yourself, your relationships, or your future. Learn how to understand identity reconstruction and how therapy supports reclaiming your sense of self.
Emotional Fatigue
Emotional fatigue feels like being “at capacity” even with small stressors. Learn why it happens and how therapy helps rebuild emotional bandwidth.
Chronic Overwhelm
Chronic overwhelm can make daily tasks feel impossible to start or finish. Explore the emotional, cognitive, and nervous-system reasons behind overwhelm — and tools to shift it.
Overthinking & Racing Thoughts
Overthinking can spiral into worry, tension, or mental exhaustion. This resource explains why your brain loops and how therapy helps restore calm and clarity.
Procrastination & Motivation
Procrastination is rarely laziness — it’s usually stress, fear, or overwhelm in disguise. Learn what drives avoidance and how therapy helps increase motivation with compassion.
Invisible Load / Mental Load
The invisible load refers to the emotional labour, planning, and mental tracking you carry daily. This guide helps you understand why it’s draining and how therapy supports balance.
Over- Commitment
Overcommitment can come from high expectations, internal pressure, or difficulty saying no. This page explores how therapy helps create sustainable rhythms and healthier boundaries.
Therapy Modalities
Harm Reduction Addict Support
Harm reduction focuses on safety, compassion, and real-world support for substance use or addictive patterns. This guide explains the approach and how therapy helps you regain stability.
Individual Relationship Therapy
This helps individuals understand relational patterns, attachment dynamics, communication blocks, and emotional needs.
Family-of-Origin Wounds Therapy
Old wounds often trace back to early experiences. This guide explains how therapy helps you understand, repair, and shift long-standing family-influenced dynamics.
About Therapy
Therapy provides a supportive space to explore your emotions, patterns, and experiences with a trained psychologist. This page helps you understand what therapy looks like, what to expect, and how the process supports meaningful change.
Adult Therapy
Adult therapy focuses on emotional wellness, identity, relationships, and life transitions. It helps you gain clarity, build coping skills, and create the internal steadiness needed to navigate everyday challenges.
Assessments
Psychological assessments offer clarity around ADHD, learning needs, emotional patterns, and cognitive strengths. This page explains how assessments work and how results support self-understanding and practical change.
Couples Therapy
Couples therapy helps partners improve communication, repair disconnection, and strengthen emotional intimacy. It creates space for understanding each other’s needs while building healthier relationships
Parent Therapy
Parent therapy supports emotional strain, decision fatigue, and the complexity of raising children. It helps you strengthen communication, reduce overwhelm, and feel more grounded in your parenting role.
Teen Therapy
Teen therapy offers a safe space for young people to process emotions, build coping skills, and explore identity. It supports confidence, emotional regulation, and healthier relationships during a pivotal stage of development.
Therapy Approaches
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
SFBT emphasizes strengths, progress, and practical change. Learn how small steps lead to meaningful movement without needing long-term deep dives.
Creative & Integrative Therapy
This resource explains how blending narrative, somatic, and expressive tools with creative approaches open new pathways to emotional understanding.
Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapy explores the stories that shape your identity, relationships, and worldview. It helps you rewrite unhelpful narratives and build new ones that support agency, resilience, and emotional clarity.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT helps you reduce struggle with difficult thoughts and build the flexibility to live in alignment with your values. It focuses on acceptance, presence, and meaningful action — even when life feels challenging.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT helps you understand how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors influence one another. It teaches practical tools for shifting unhelpful patterns and improving daily functioning.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
DBT strengthens emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and relationship skills. This approach is particularly helpful for clients who experience intense emotions or rapid shifts in mood.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR therapy helps the brain reprocess traumatic or distressing memories in a safe, structured way. This approach reduces emotional reactivity and supports long-term nervous system healing.
EMDR – How It Works
A deep dive into how EMDR supports trauma healing through bilateral stimulation and nervous-system processing. Learn what EMDR does, why it works, and what to expect.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS Therapy helps you understand the different “parts” within you that hold pain, protection, or emotion. By building compassion and connection with these parts, healing becomes more accessible and integrated.