Therapists in Calgary, AB

Executive coaching, consulting and counselling for leaders and high net worth individuals and families. My education includes theory and practice in most major approaches in Psychology including Psychodynamic, Cognitive-Behavioural and Humanistic-Existential in combination with hands-on management experience. I have worked extensively in the arts and media on performance, creativity and anxiety. With four degrees in Psychology including a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and a Certificate in Intercultural Studies, formal education has been invaluable. My best teachers however are my clients and life experience.

Are you looking for an Online Therapist? Do you have problems that are not getting better no matter how hard you try? Have you looked for help but not sure where to go and you do not want to burden your friends and family? Well, I can help you. You do not have to stay stuck because you do not know what to do or believe there is no hope for change. I can help you find the hope and learn how to overcome your challenges and difficulties.

I am a provisional psychologist currently working at Cultivate. I have a background in working with children with over 10 years of experience in various child support roles. In these roles, I have developed a passion for supporting people and creating trusting safe spaces. I have worked with various populations in a counselling setting and am enthused to continue to.

At times, clients can find the initial stages of therapy daunting. They often feel distant from their ideal selves and are unsure of the first step to take. I aim to create a secure environment where clients feel at ease to express themselves and feel confident to share their concerns. A strong bond, founded on trust, allows us to collaboratively pursue beneficial outcomes throughout the therapeutic process.

This society can be a tough place to live in. I support folks who need compassionate, validating, and warm care in processing difficult emotions and experiences, and supporting them in strengthening their sense of self, well-being, efficacy, and awareness. I incorporate minority stress theory, anti-oppressive lens, and an affirmative stance in my practice.

Our health, growth and happiness come from meaningful and satisfying connections with ourselves and others. Uncovering what is behind our struggles can help us focus our efforts, feel more empowered and recapture our lost potential.

I specialize in treating a variety of concerns, such as anxiety, depression, trauma and PTSD, behavioural concerns, substance use, and relational issues and family dynamics, using CBT, DBT, ABA, and EMDR. The type of therapy, or combination of types, that best supports your goals is chosen collaboratively, and can look different depending on what you want to achieve. I work with some populations that may require a more specialized approach, including individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, first responders or public safety personnel, and individuals with acquired brain injuries.

Courage, moderation, hope, wisdom, love, meaning and purpose, these are some of the qualities we wish for when we are struggling and in pain. If you or someone close to you are looking to embody these types of virtues in the face of adversity, I would like to offer my support.

With over 15 years of expertise in psychology and neuroscience, Wahab offers compassionate and effective therapy tailored to your unique needs. Grounded in a client-centered approach, Wahab skillfully combines well-established therapeutic techniques like CBT, EMDR, ACT, and MBSR with his own groundbreaking ARIA method, providing you with the most comprehensive and individualized support. Wahab is also at the forefront of introducing Post-Psychedelic Therapy (PPT), a transformative approach that harnesses the insights of cognitive science and the therapeutic potential of psychedelics.

*Currently accepting new clients* As an experienced counsellor, I have the great privilege of helping others discover insight and clarity in their lives to take action towards greater health and wellbeing. It is human to struggle. We all have our ups and downs and being isolated in our emotional experience can just make it worse. I am here to offer a warm and supportive environment to explore your concerns and achieve improvement in psychological, physical, spiritual and relational well-being.

Looking for an adult autism assessment with a neurodivergent psychologist? Feeling dismissed by people who don’t understand medical trauma or how hard it is to stop masking? You have the right to feel accepted, heard, and believed—even during an assessment! I was “late-diagnosed” and understand how relieving a diagnosis can be after decades of feeling misunderstood and exhausted. My assessments are thorough and the options were entirely designed by autistic people, who I routinely work with to refine things. You can do the entire assessment from home and take the time you need. Do a FREE self-screen on my site here: www.ndpsych.com

Located in Calgary. It is a difficult time, and challenges happen, my hope is to be able to work with you and draw on your strengths while offering a new perspective to help improve how things are going for you. One of the most challenging parts of counselling is the first step - reaching out. I am so happy to connect, answer questions, offer a no charge initial consultation, and to get started.

My goal as a counsellor is to make you feel heard, acknowledged, and empowered. I utilize an integrative approach to therapy, and value your feedback and input throughout the process. I am here to support you with the challenges you are experiencing and the changes you desire to make. I have experience working with adults in various life stages as well as teens and young adults.

All of us face challenges in life. Whether they are difficult family or work relationships, career challenges, stressful life changes, addictions, faith crises, or hopes for something better to move us forward, confidential counselling with a nonjudgmental caring professional helps. Alberts and Associates also provides professional/leader coaching, management/workplace consulting, and career planning services.

My practice, over the years, has become more and more attuned to problems of conflict and issues of violence. As a trained child psychologist, I have seen first hand the raw damage an emotional injury continues to create. As a clinician, it has not been unusual for me to see the same sorts of trauma: yet locked away in one's memory, living on in current behaviour. This is what conflict can do. The issues just seem to keep on repeating themselves, inevitably with the same unfortunate outcomes. (My role sometimes is the Life Coach who becomes a personal guide.)

Do you feel like you are living in misalignment with the things you care about? That you're living with unmet potential and spend time focusing on things that don't match your values? At work or in your relationships, this could be showing up as a big sense of distraction — even though you’re doing so much, it seems like you’re getting nowhere. You have high hopes and big dreams, but feel disconnected and stuck. Something might feel “off” and it’s hard for you to feel motivated to keep going through motions without procrastinating and delaying. I work with clients to improve their overall performance and life satisfaction.

“Smooth seas don’t make good sailors”--It's a bitter truth-- No One escapes the challenges of Life. "What’s the purpose of therapy?” I believe we are all leaders of our own lives. Whether we choose to believe so or not, we are still leading our lives everyday with the choices and decisions we make. We can either decide to make unconscious decisions, or we can finally learn about ourselves, and take charge by making more conscious decisions that will improve the quality of our lives. Therapy is learning about and then empowering that silent leader within you. "Life is a dance between what we can control and realizing what we cannot"

When you feel all hope is lost, there is STILL hope! Vincent van Gogh said, “There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.” I consider my job to hear and feel with you the great fire of your soul—your struggles, feelings of hopelessness and worry, feeling controlled by your emotions and past trauma, repeating patterns of conflict, battling addiction, or fighting an inner battle that others may not fully understand or appreciate.

Are you ready for a new chapter in your life? Let’s take the steps together. Whether you are experiencing overwhelming stress, feelings of anxiety or depression, grief and loss, or dealing with past or present trauma, we can all find ourselves feeling pushed to our limit, paralyzed with uncertainty, or simply lost. Whatever you are experiencing in your life right now, I am confident that there is hope and a way forward.