Calgary Family & Relationship Psychologist
Relationship Issues
Healthy relationships are the foundation of a fulfilling life. As social beings, we all share the deep need to connect, belong, and feel loved. Our attachments with others shape our emotions, thoughts, and behaviors — and research shows that satisfying relationships strongly predict life satisfaction, physical health, and even longevity.
When relationships are struggling, life can feel overwhelming. It’s common to face challenges around trust, intimacy, communication, finances, friendships, or parenting. Many people come to relationship counselling in Calgary because they feel disconnected from their partner and don’t know where to start.
As a relationship psychologist in Calgary, I help individuals and couples better understand what gets in the way of meaningful connection and provide tools to strengthen relationships. Whether through individual relationship counselling or couples therapy in Calgary, the focus is on helping you navigate where you want to go in your relationships and how to develop the skills needed for closeness, communication, and long-term resilience.
Are you ready to create the relationship you want?
How Therapy Can Help
Relationship counselling is a way for you to take a closer look at yourself and your part in relationships. Sessions aim to help you gain clarity about your role in relationships and uncover any unhelpful beliefs or behaviors that may be holding you back from your ideal relationship. I can help you develop skills to connect more deeply, improve communication, set boundaries, engage in productive conflict, manage your emotions and reactions, and achieve goals unique to your relationship. The focus is on defining the type of relationship you want, who you want to be in the relationship, and how best to get there.
I help people in all sorts of situations, whether you’re in a new relationship, a long-term relationship, thinking about ending a relationship, ending a relationship, having difficulty sustaining friendships or relationships, or not in a relationship at all. Whatever the cause, I provide a warm, safe, confidential space to clarify and manage your relationship issues.
Other areas of focus include how to get along with work colleagues, parents or siblings, how to heal broken family ties, how to navigate blended families, or how to improve your relationship with your children.
Separation and Divorce
Separation and divorce can be one of the most emotionally disruptive events of your life and can have a profound effect on psychological well being. The end of a significant relationship can trigger a flood of painful and unsettling thoughts and emotions, including sadness, loneliness, guilt, shame, frustration, fear, insecurity, anger and resentment, to name a few. The roller coaster of emotions during a break up can impact your ability to think clearly, make rational decisions, sleep, work and parent effectively.
How Therapy Can Help
I can help you navigate your divorce, break up or separation with mindfulness, grace and compassion. I can help you work through difficult emotions, such as grief, betrayal, failure, sadness, guilt and anger, and help with issues related to parenting/ co-parenting. You will learn how to process difficult emotions and recover from the loss of your relationship. I will help you learn to approach your divorce, break up or separation with healthy detachment, move forward with equanimity, and open yourself to new journeys and possibilities.
I can see you in-person at my Calgary office, or online from anywhere in Alberta.