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 (MMH-Individual) counselling and group (MMH-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 ("Men's Mental Health (MMH) - Group: The Guys") are important steps 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 check out the booking section for MMH-Groups and join the Waitlist.

Welcome to our Men’s Mental Health GROUP program section. In this section, you will find our therapeutic group offering for men: The Guys.

To join the waitlist, choose "'The Guys': Men’s Mental Health Virtual Groups - WAITLIST SIGN UP". Your spot on the waitlist is the first step toward intake and placement in an upcoming group.

The Guys is an 8-week, process-oriented, psychologist-led virtual group for men in Alberta who want a place to talk about what they have been taught to hold in. The group is designed for men dealing with stress, pressure, anger, shutdown, resentment, disconnection, shame, self-criticism, or relationship strain, and who want practical tools, honest reflection, and meaningful conversation.

Over 8 weeks, the program focuses on building capacity in the following areas: self-awareness under pressure; stress and nervous system patterns; communication during conflict; repair after tension; limits and people-pleasing; shame and protective patterns; and intimacy and connection. The group is structured enough to give clear direction, but flexible enough that each cycle can feel different depending on what participants are working through in real time. That means men may return for another cycle and continue the work at a deeper level with new reflection, practice, and application.

“The Guys” Quick Facts:
• Format: Psychologist-led men’s therapeutic support group
• Location: Online (for men in Alberta)
• Length: 8 weeks
• Session Length: 90 minutes weekly
• Group Format: Structured conversation with whole-group and/or breakout discussion
• Cost: $880 for the full 8-week program
• Receipts: Provided for possible insurance reimbursement (coverage depends on your plan)
• Eligibility: Intake required before enrollment
• Includes a weekly bonus Video Support + Mini Journalling Program

If you would like to learn more, visit www.mensmentalhealth.ca/groups.

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, focus, emotional dysregulation, and restlessness 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 for understanding and managing ADHD across the lifespan.

Clients who DO NOT have an existing ADHD diagnosis will typically move through the following FOUR stages:

Phase 1. PRE-SCREENING - ONE Initial Information-gathering session

Phase 2. SCREENING - Preliminary assessment forms are sent out at the time of booking, followed by ONE clinical interview to review the results.

Phase 3. ASSESSMENT & TREATMENT PLANNING - Based on the results from the SCREENING stage, this is the formal process of properly diagnosing ADHD. The process includes TWO additional clinical interviews, standardized ADHD and executive‑function measures and form scoring, collateral input when appropriate, report generation, which includes a customized treatment plan, and ONE session to provide a clear explanation of results and proposed treatment plan. Treatment Planning focuses on practical, real‑world strategies tailored to each client’s needs, informing which interventions may be needed.

Phase 4. CUSTOMIZED INTERVENTION & ONGOING SUPPORT - This is the implementation portion of the treatment plan, which includes ongoing support as needed. Interventions may include ADHD‑focused therapy, executive‑skills coaching, education on the impacts of ADHD, support for families, school or workplace recommendations, accommodation letters, report creation, and coordination with medical providers for medication management when needed. Follow‑up sessions track progress, refine strategies, and help clients build sustainable systems for daily life.

Clients with an existing ADHD diagnosis who would like a second opinion or confirmation of their diagnosis can enter the program at the SCREENING stage and proceed from there, as they may not need PRE-SCREENING.

The goal of the program is to provide clarity, effective tools, and a supportive plan that help clients function with greater confidence at home, at school, at work, and in relationships. If you are not sure where to start, don't hesitate to get in touch with us via email.

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/