Our Psychology and Mental Health services are designed to support individuals in understanding and managing their mental well-being. We offer a range of therapeutic approaches tailored to meet the unique needs of each client. Our experienced professionals are dedicated to providing compassionate care, helping clients navigate life's challenges, and fostering personal growth. Whether you're dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, or other mental health concerns, we're here to help you achieve a healthier, more balanced life.

www.MensMentalHealth.ca
A space for men to talk about what they've been taught to hold in.

Welcome to our Men's Mental Health program section! We offer both individual counselling and group support for men from all walks of life. Men's mental health often goes unspoken, overshadowed by societal pressures to appear strong and self-reliant. This can lead to struggles with emotions, stress, and mental well-being being kept secret, with men feeling unable to seek the support they need.

Our Men's Mental Health individual counselling services and group program ("The Guys" - see below) are importants step men can take toward prioritizing mental health awareness, breaking stigmas, and encouraging open, candid, and respectful conversations among men, with a focus on better mental and emotional health across all areas of their lives. Feel free to book an individual session with one of our Men's Mental Health therapists, or join our new Men's Mental Health Group: "The Guys."

THE GUYS: MEN'S MENTAL HEALTH GROUPS
Real conversations. Real connections.
An 8-week, psychologist-led men’s mental health group and men’s support group, offered online (Zoom) and available Alberta-wide.

What The Guys Actually Is:
It’s not about fixing each other.
It’s not a lecture or a performance.
And it’s not about being vulnerable on demand.

It’s a structured, predictable space where men meet weekly with the same group and practice talking openly and honestly, listening with intent, and staying present with what’s actually going on in their lives and the lives of the other men around them—without posturing, chest-thumping, or needing to have the right thing to say.

Conversations with The Guys work to move beyond sports, work, traffic, politics, and the news, and into how your week really went, what’s been sitting with you, what’s coming up at home, and how things are actually landing in your relationships.

What a Typical Week Looks Like:
The Guys runs for 8 weeks, meeting once a week for 90 minutes, usually on Tuesday or Wednesday evenings from 6:30–8:00 p.m.

Each session follows the same structure, so you know what to expect:
• 15 minutes – facilitated opening and settling in
• 60 minutes – member-to-member conversation (as one group or in breakout groups, depending on size)
• 15 minutes – facilitated closing, reflection, and looking ahead

Groups will have a minimum of SIX men, and you will be given two weeks’ notice before the group starts. No new participants will join once the group has started.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN JOINING THE GUYS, PLEASE ADD YOURSELF TO OUR WAITLIST.

Adding yourself to the waitlist doesn't automatically mean you've signed up; it just means we know you're interested in hearing more. When you add yourself to the waitlist, our admin will send you a brief questionnaire. Once complete, it will be reviewed by one of our therapists, who will then reach out to you personally.

If you're on the fence, the waitlist is the place to start.

If you want more detail, feel free to email us or visit: www.MensMentalHealth.ca

The teenage years can be full of change, pressure, and uncertainty. Stress from school, friendships, identity, or family life can sometimes feel overwhelming, and teens often feel isolated, lost, and misunderstood. Our Teens’ Mental Health Counselling service provides a safe, non-judgmental, supportive space where young people can talk about what's on their minds, open up and share their emotions, work through challenging family dynamics, and, in collaboration with their counsellor, develop practical tools and solutions for everyday challenges.

How We Support Our Teen Clients:

- Individual Counselling: Focused sessions that meet teens where they are, helping them explore, understand, and manage their feelings.
- Relaxed Environment: Our waiting room has comfortable couches, puzzles, an old arcade-style video game machine, a candy bowl, and free Wifi.
- Evidence-Based Care: Trauma-informed, attachment-safe methods designed to respect each teen’s unique story and background.
- Practical Skill Development: Strategies for handling stress, improving communication, and strengthening relationships.
- Family Awareness & Collaboration: While sessions center on the teen, parents and caregivers are supported with guidance when collaboration is helpful and/or necessary.

Why It Matters:

Early support during adolescence can make a lasting difference. Counselling helps teens gain confidence, self-awareness, and coping skills that carry into adulthood. Parents and families can feel confident knowing their teen is receiving compassionate, professional care in a space designed for safe, open dialogue, growth, and healing.

Navigating attention and focus challenges can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re unsure whether ADHD may be part of the picture. Our ADHD Assessment and Treatment program provides a structured, compassionate first step.

The program provides a structured, evidence‑based pathway for understanding and managing ADHD across the lifespan. Clients move through four stages:

• Screening: brief symptom check and intake review
• Comprehensive Assessment: full clinical interview and standardized measures
• Personalized Treatment Planning: collaborative goals and tailored strategies
• Ongoing Support: regular follow‑ups and progress monitoring

The process includes clinical interviews, standardized ADHD and executive‑function measures, collateral input when appropriate, and a clear explanation of results. Treatment focuses on practical, real‑world strategies tailored to each client’s needs. This may include ADHD‑focused therapy, executive‑skills coaching, behaviour support for families, school or workplace recommendations and accomodation letters, report creation, and coordination with medical providers for medication management when needed. Follow‑up sessions track progress, adjust strategies, and help clients build sustainable systems for daily life.

The goal of the program is to offer clarity, effective tools, and a supportive plan that helps clients function with more confidence at home, school, work, and in relationships.

Our parent support and consultation services are provided by psychologists highly skilled and experienced in working with children and adolescents. The partnership between the parent(s) and the psychologist, is aimed at assisting parents with the challenges of child-rearing, from infancy through to the early adult years. Our therapists offer customized advice, strategies, and resources to aid parents in managing the intricacies of parenthood. Whether addressing behavioural problems, developmental issues, or seeking to improve parenting abilities, parent consultation and coaching provides a personalized strategy to accommodate your specific needs.

This process will enhance your comprehension of your child's developmental stages, emotional experiences, and behaviors. It will also refine your communication abilities and help you establish successful parenting techniques, which will contribute to more robust parent-child bonds, decreased stress levels, and a more peaceful family atmosphere.

During a standard parent consultation and coaching session, you'll collaborate with your psychologist for 60 minutes to address your unique concerns and objectives, evaluate your present parenting difficulties, and pinpoint the areas where you require assistance. Your psychologist will then offer insights and actionable recommendations customized to your circumstances that you can put into practice immediately. For the last 15 minutes of your session, your therapist will prepare and send you via email a written session summary, the interventions proposed, and other resources you might find helpful.

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a unique approach to psychotherapy. ART is unique because the ART Therapist guides the client to replace the negative images in the mind that cause the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress with positive images of the client’s choosing. And this is done quickly, most often within one session! Once the negative images have been replaced by positive ones, the triggers will be gone. Nightmares and repeated intrusive thoughts will stop.

Some of the growing body of research that shows ART can do this may be found by clicking the following link: https://acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com/evidence-based/ ART is recognized as evidenced-based by the Society of Clinical Psychology, Div. 12 of the American Psychological Association (APA).

ART is also unique in that it combines the enormous power of eye movements to allow voluntary changes in the client’s mind with well-established therapies like Gestalt, Psychodynamic Therapy and Guided Imagery. Within the ART protocol, the eye movements, along with other ART enhancements, make these therapies work much faster and more effectively.

With these therapies, combined with ART’s eye movements and other ART enhancements, many mental health problems other than Post Traumatic Stress can also be resolved quickly. Among the things ART can deal with are OCD, Eating Disorders, Generalized Anxiety and Generalized Depressive Disorders. ART can deal with traumas often associated with Dyslexia but also go beyond that to improve reading! (The issues that have been resolved by ART are listed more fully below.)

That eye movements are calming and therapeutic is evidenced-based. It has been shown that they produce theta waves in the brain. Theta waves have been connected to creativity, intuition, daydreaming. These brain waves are often present during meditative states.

One of the special aspects of ART is that when clients replace their negative images with positive ones they don’t need to talk to the therapist about any details of the trauma. This is because ART is procedural, though creative; and the client is really in control of the process, while the ART Therapist is a helpful guide. This makes the therapy easier on the client and easier on the therapist.

Although some traumatic experiences such as rape, combat or loss of a loved one can be very painful to visualize, early in the ART session the client has already rapidly moved beyond the place where they are stuck in these past experiences and is making positive changes of their choice. ART sessions are calming for the client and very often joyful, especially at the end, for both the client and the therapist.

Here are some issues that have been quickly and effectively treated by ART:

⦁ Anxiety
⦁ Depression
⦁ Phobias
⦁ Panic Attacks
⦁ Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
⦁ Post Traumatic Stress (PTS)
⦁ Addictions/ Substance Abuse
⦁ Performance Anxiety
⦁ Family Issues
⦁ Victimization/Poor Self Image
⦁ Victimization/Sexual Abuse
⦁ Relationship Issues/Infidelity
⦁ Codependency
⦁ Grief
⦁ Job-Related Stress
⦁ Pain Management
⦁ Memory Enhancement
⦁ Dyslexia Anxiety

For more information and research on ART, you can visit: https://acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com/what-is-art/