Individual Therapy

Individual counselling meets you where you are in your healing journey. Building trust with the clinician takes time and your goals will be fully understood, as well as your expectations and concerns. The clinician will take tome to understand if you are looking to dig into your past to better understand your origin story and where your wounds might be coming from. If you prefer to stay in the present and learn how to interrupt negative thoughts and get back into motion without exposing your past, we will help reframe your assumptions and support changing behaviour with what we have in front of us. The bottom line is this: you are always in charge of your own healing journey and we will walk beside you as you figure it out.  

Couples Counselling 

Couples counselling follows a structure that allows for both sessions together and a few intentional individual sessions that align with the couples goals. The structure is an initial intake session where your clinician will begin to understand your presenting issues and get a sense of you as a couple. This is followed by two individual sessions to better understand your origin stories and your childhood. When we return to a group setting, your therapist will explain some of the patterns they see that might be getting in your way; attachment issues, toxic cycles, reactions and perceptions and triggers. Once we identify where we might be struggling, a treatment plan will be presented with conflict resolution tools and communication strategies. Couples counselling is about building resilience through compassion and friendship. We follow a blend of Gottman Couples Therapy, Emotionally Focussed Couples Therapy and Attachment modalities.

Classes and Group Counselling 

Couples Communication Bootcamp

This class focusses on the communication traps we encounter and how to stay ahead of them. How do we resolve conflict? How do we respond to our partner? How does our attachment style play into things? This is a 4 week program consisting of a one hour class in a group setting, offered both in person and virtually. This class is limited to 5 couples. 

Week 1: Why we get stuck: The Four Horsemen, criticism and defensiveness. 

Week 2: Perception Matters: Intent vs Impact and Active Listening

Week 3: Conflict Intervention Tools: How to park it before you spark it

Week 4: Deepening Connection: Friendship, Unmasking and Rebuilding the Connection

ADHD and Your Romantic Relationship

This class is an add on following completion of the Couples Communication Bootcamp. This is a 2 week group class where we explore how to understand your partner’s ADHD influences on the relationship and how to reduce conflict through understanding and compassion. This class is limited to 5 couples. 

Week 1: What does ADHD look like in relationships? 

Week 2: Integrating Compassion and Co-Regulation.

Daily Divorce: An introduction to Parenting and Separation Agreements 

This is a one hour class where our mediator will introduce you what the legal documents are that you need to develop and all the parts to consider. How are you setting up your parenting schedule? Who is responsible for booking doctors appointments for minors? What is the consideration for holidays? How will you access shared spaces like vacation homes? How are you negotiating division of property? And so much more…

This course will be offered both in person at our Sundace location in Calgary, and online for attendance across Canada. This class is limited to 10 attendees. Availability dates may change.