Online Counselling in Calgary, Alberta
Professional therapy for teens, adults, couples, and families so you don’t have to face it alone.
Have You Been Struggling with Your Mental Health?
Some days, you hold it together. Other days, it feels like everything could fall apart at once.
In a busy, fast-moving city like Calgary, it’s easy to feel like you’re just trying to survive the day. Between work, family, and constant demands, you might find yourself running on empty, your patience wearing thin, your motivation is gone, and even small tasks feel overwhelming. Maybe your mind won’t stop racing at night, or your emotions come in waves you can’t seem to control.
When emotional stress builds up, it starts to touch everything: your focus, your sleep, your relationships, and your sense of self. That’s where counselling can help.
At The Mental Health Clinic, our Alberta-licensed therapists provide virtual counselling in Calgary and surrounding areas including Airdrie, Okotoks, Cochrane, Chestermere, and more. Through secure video or phone sessions, you can access compassionate, professional support from wherever you feel most comfortable.
We don’t just talk about what’s wrong, we help you feel better.
Our Calgary counsellors use evidence-based, results-driven approaches such as CBT, DBT, EMDR, ACT, EFT, and more to help you work through whatever’s been weighing on you whether it’s anxiety, depression, stress, grief, burnout, trauma, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, or simply feeling stuck. No matter what you’re facing, therapy provides a safe, structured space to make sense of it, find relief, and start feeling like yourself again.
Find out how therapy can calm your system, lift your mood, and help you start functioning again.
What Counselling Really Does
Counselling isn’t just venting; it’s a structured treatment process that helps you understand what’s happening, reduce symptoms, and create lasting emotional stability.
It’s a space where you can explore what’s really driving your stress, sadness, or anxiety and learn practical tools to manage it.
Through evidence-based approaches, counselling helps you:
Reduce anxiety and panic by retraining how your brain and body respond to stress
Lift depressive symptoms by re-engaging motivation, balanced thinking, and daily structure
Stabilize emotions so you can think clearly and make grounded choices
Repair relationships through better communication and conflict resolution
Recover from trauma by processing painful experiences safely and reducing their daily impact
Our therapists don’t just offer encouragement; they provide personalized treatment plans using proven approaches like CBT, DBT, EMDR, ACT, EFT, and more. Each plan is designed around your unique concerns, symptoms, and goals.
Most counselling sessions naturally move through three phases:
Exploring the presenting concern or problem: understanding what’s happening and where it comes from.
Creating relief in the moment: learning grounding or reframing tools to reduce immediate distress.
Building lasting change: developing new coping skills, insights, and habits that support long-term healing.
Counselling is where emotional pain becomes something you can understand, manage, and overcome step by step.
Who Is Counselling For?
You don’t need to be in crisis to reach out for therapy. Many Calgarians start counselling when life feels heavier than usual, when stress, sadness, or conflict start to get in the way of work, family, or daily functioning.
Counselling can help if you find yourself:
Constantly anxious or tense, unable to relax
Feeling low, disconnected, or burnt out
Struggling with communication or emotional distance in relationships
Going through major changes like a breakup, loss, move, or transition
Healing from trauma, still triggered by past experiences
Trying to manage everything on your own and running out of steam
At The Mental Health Clinic, we support people from all walks of life from professionals balancing heavy workloads to parents, students, and couples trying to reconnect.
We work with:
Teens navigating school pressure, friendships, or identity questions
Adults managing stress, anxiety, or workplace burnout
Couples rebuilding communication, connection, and trust
Families adapting to change, parenting challenges, or blended dynamics
And that’s only the beginning. Counselling supports any emotional, behavioural, or relational struggle even if you can’t quite put into words what’s wrong. Therapy meets you where you are and helps you find your next step forward.
What Counselling Can Help With
Every person’s story is different, but most of us reach a point where coping alone isn’t enough. Counselling offers a framework for understanding your challenges and building the tools to move through them with clarity and confidence.
Emotional Health and Well-Being
When emotions feel unpredictable or overwhelming, therapy helps calm your nervous system and retrain how your mind responds to stress. Together, you’ll learn practical ways to manage anxiety, lift your mood, and find relief from constant worry, irritability, or overwhelm. Clients often notice they can think more clearly, sleep better, and regain energy for the things that matter.
Relationships and Connection
Therapy helps repair communication breakdowns, repeating arguments, and emotional distance. You’ll learn how to express needs, rebuild trust, and reconnect with the people who matter most. Whether it’s couples therapy, family sessions, or boundary-setting, we help you find connection that feels safe and supportive.
Stress, Burnout, and Work-Life Pressure
Calgary’s fast pace can make it hard to slow down. When deadlines, caregiving, or expectations stack up, stress can turn into exhaustion or shutdown. Counselling helps you identify early signs of burnout, rebalance priorities, and set healthier boundaries so your mental and physical health can recover. You’ll learn strategies to protect your energy and prevent burnout from becoming your “new normal.”
Grief, Loss, and Trauma
When life changes suddenly or painful memories linger, therapy helps you process and integrate those experiences safely. Using approaches like EMDR, EFT, or trauma-informed CBT, we help you heal at your own pace and find strength in what you’ve overcome.
Personal Growth and Identity
Counselling isn’t only about problems; it’s also about growth. You might want to strengthen self-esteem, explore identity, or build confidence in decision-making. Therapy helps you clarify your values and live more intentionally, aligned with who you truly are.
Concerns Our Calgary Counsellors Address
Adjustments
Anger Management
Anxiety & Panic
Career
Communication
Cultural Issues
Depression
Eating Concerns
Emotion Regulation
Grief and loss
Identity
Parenting
Phobias
Relationships
Self-esteem
Separation & Divorce
Stress
Family Conflicts
Trauma
And more…
Whatever you’re facing, whether it’s clearly defined or hard to name, counselling offers relief, perspective, and lasting tools for change. You don’t have to keep holding it all together on your own.
What Happens in a Session?
Starting counselling can feel like a big step, and it’s normal to wonder what it will be like. When you start counselling, you’re not just signing up to talk; you’re beginning a structured process built around understanding, stability, and growth. Every session is designed to help you move forward at your own pace with no pressure, no judgment, just support that fits your needs.
1. Exploring the Presenting Concern or Problem
Your first few sessions focus on understanding what’s happening and why. You and your therapist will talk about what brought you here, how your symptoms show up, and how they affect your daily life. This exploration isn’t about judgement or “fixing” you; it’s about identifying patterns and triggers so your therapist can create a treatment plan that fits you. Together, you’ll define clear goals; things like “I want to feel less anxious at work,” or “I want to stop avoiding conversations that matter.” This foundation builds the roadmap for everything that follows.
2. Creating Relief in the Moment
Counselling isn’t just insight, it’s also practical support. Once your therapist understands your core concerns, you’ll begin working on tools to calm your system and reduce distress right away. You’ll learn techniques for grounding, emotion regulation, or cognitive reframing that can ease symptoms like racing thoughts, panic, irritability, or emotional shutdown. These skills bring stability and confidence early on so you leave sessions with something that makes a tangible difference in your daily life.
3. Building Lasting Change
The final stage focuses on long-term growth. With safety and stability in place, therapy shifts toward deeper work, understanding the roots of patterns, healing old wounds, and strengthening the habits that support emotional resilience. You’ll explore new ways of thinking, relating, and coping that help you sustain progress outside of sessions. By the end, clients often describe feeling lighter, more present, and better equipped to handle whatever life brings next.
Every person’s process is different. Some find relief after a few sessions; others continue longer-term to deepen self-understanding and maintain growth. Your therapist will move at your pace, adjusting treatment along the way so you always feel supported and in control of your journey.
Therapeutic Approaches We Use
No two people experience mental-health challenges in the same way which is why we tailor every plan to your goals, personality, and comfort level. Our Calgary based counsellors draw from a range of evidence-based therapies to help you feel better in the short term, and create lasting emotional change over time.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): ACT helps you notice unhelpful thoughts without getting pulled into them. By focusing on mindfulness and personal values, you’ll learn to respond to life’s stressors with flexibility instead of avoidance thereby building emotional strength and clarity.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): CBT focuses on the link between thoughts, emotions, and actions. It’s one of the most researched forms of treatment for anxiety, depression, and stress. You’ll identify negative thinking patterns, challenge them with realistic alternatives, and develop healthier daily habits that support mood stability.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT): Originally developed for intense emotions, DBT teaches four key skill areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. It helps you manage big feelings without shutting down or reacting impulsively, improving both self-control and relationships.
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT): EFT helps you understand and process emotions rather than suppress them. By learning to identify what your feelings are trying to communicate, you can transform emotional pain into clarity, empathy, and deeper connection with both yourself and others.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): EMDR is a structured, trauma-focused therapy that helps your brain safely reprocess distressing memories. It reduces the emotional intensity of traumatic events, often decreasing flashbacks, nightmares, and body-based anxiety responses. Clients frequently describe EMDR as life-changing for trauma, phobias, and unresolved grief.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy: Grounded in decades of research, this method teaches couples practical ways to de-escalate conflict, communicate effectively, and rebuild emotional trust. It’s especially helpful for improving intimacy, teamwork, and resilience during stressful times.
Internal Family Systems (IFS): IFS helps you explore different “parts” of yourself (the protector, the critic, the inner child) with compassion instead of judgement. You’ll learn how these parts developed and how to bring them into balance, leading to greater self-understanding and emotional peace.
Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT): Rather than analyzing every problem, SFT highlights what’s already working. Together, you’ll identify small, achievable steps that move you closer to your goals and build confidence through progress.
Integrative Approaches: Many clients benefit from a blend of approaches. Our therapists integrate multiple methods always through a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive lens to create a personalized plan that fits your pace and comfort level. Every technique we use is evidence-based, compassionate, and adapted to your unique story.
At The Mental Health Clinic, therapy isn’t about labels or quick fixes; it’s about finding the right treatment process for you. Whether you need practical tools for anxiety, trauma recovery, relationship repair, or personal growth, your therapist will tailor sessions to deliver meaningful, measurable results.
The Benefits of Counselling
One of the most profound benefits of counselling is finally understanding why you feel the way you do. Sharing your thoughts and experiences with a trained professional can ease the weight of carrying them alone.
A counsellor offers compassion, perspective, and research-backed tools that help you make sense of what’s happening. Over time, you’ll gain insight into your emotions, build resilience, and feel more confident managing life’s challenges.
Therapy can help you reconnect with your values, strengthen your relationships, and rediscover hope in yourself and your future.
At The Mental Health Clinic, we believe reaching out for help is one of the bravest steps you can take and we’re here to meet you with care, respect, and professional expertise. With online counselling available across Calgary and nearby communities, support is just one click away.
You don’t have to face this alone anymore, professional support is one click away
Why Choose The Mental Health Clinic?
Therapists in Calgary you can trust: Licensed professionals with advanced training and 20+ years of experience supporting individuals, couples, and families.
Evidence-based and results-oriented: Every session follows proven methods tailored to your goals, so you notice progress you can feel and measure.
Calgary-wide access: Whether you live downtown, in Airdrie, or on the city’s outskirts, our secure video and phone counselling options make therapy convenient and accessible from anywhere in the Calgary area.
Flexible scheduling options with morning, afternoon, evening and weekend appointments available.
No waitlists so you can start when you're ready, not months from now.
Insurance Coverage: Our sessions are covered by insurance plan and our clinic welcomes clients from all backgrounds, communities, and life experiences.
Free consultations: Meet your therapist first, ask questions, and make sure it feels like the right fit before committing.
We know taking the first step can be overwhelming. That’s why we offer a free 20-minute consultation for a chance to meet your therapist, ask questions, and see if it feels right for you.
Meet Our Therapists
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AMY
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DANIEL
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KAREN
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SAMANTHA
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