Discover your unique pathway to thriving in life
Individual Counselling
Professional Mental Health Counselling in Calgary
Individual counselling can help people struggling with relational/interpersonal issues, stress, trauma, chronic pain, brain injury, and life transitions. Visit our NeuroLounge for a free 30-minute consultation, access free educational information and try, rent, or buy NeuroWearables. Find out how you can enhance attention, relaxation, increase energy, improve sleep and more!
We offer comprehensive testing (questionnaires, interviews and standardized tests), and a collaborative, inquiry-based approach to clearly understand your current symptoms, strengths, and resiliency. To learn more, contact us at the Neurolounge.
Our Approach
We follow a comprehensive assessment-and collaborative, enquiry-based approach to clearly understand your current risk indicators and resilience factors. Assessment may include a qEEG (brain map), when required. Traditional assessment such as questionnaires, interviews and standardized tests are used to identify your unique strengths and areas of concern. We seek to understand your neurocognitive status and other lifestyle and biopsychosocial factors influencing your mental health and overall well-being.
Generally, the first stage of the assessment involves a series of meetings followed by evaluation metrics that encompass a broad range of potentially impactful variables. Identified variables are then collaboratively translated into targeted goals.
The following are examples of the potential variables to consider:
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Early life history
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Genetic and epigenetic factors
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Family history and health
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Interpersonal, lifestyle (self-care: nutrition, exercise, social connection, stress (pain, financial, employment, relational and physical well-being), exposure to environmental pollutants, chronic pain, inflammation and infectious viruses including COVID and other potential toxins such as mold, chemical or metal toxins)
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Concussion, brain injury and other brain insults.
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Parent/child/family function
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Behavioural challenges
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Cognitive health
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Physical, spiritual, emotional and psychological health
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Quantitative Electroenchalogram (qEEG) to examine current metrics of brain function (raw data, activity, networks, efficiency)
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Chronic pain
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Sleep challenges
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Social Network
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Financial Health
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Aging and other life transitions
Therapy
Our counsellors make use of traditional therapies and may also incorporate evidence-based non-invasive neurotherapies (neurostimulation, photobiomodulation, neurowearables and neurofeedback) to help you manage challenges with:
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Mental health (anxiety, depression, OCD, complex trauma, PTSD)
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Energy levels
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Employment/return to work/adjustment
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Concussion, mild to moderate brain injury
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Challenges with learning (ADHD, memory, executive, language issues)
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Cognitive decline
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Life transitions (adjustment to adult life, separation, divorce, aging)
Over the years, we have realized that a combination of approaches serves our goal of understanding the whole person and in turn, can enhance an individual’s ability to thrive in life! For more information, please contact us at the Neurolounge.
Welcome to Our NeuroLounge
The NeuroLounge is an open-access educational and consultation “hub” where professional team members and professionals-in-training, are onsite to offer a free 30 min consultation and based on evaluation, up to five free 30 min. clinical support sessions that encourage a deeper understanding of your strengths and areas of concern. Support options may also include referrals to both in-house and external (free and fee-for-service) agencies and other resources as needed.
Visit us at the NeuroLounge to learn more about the latest digital therapeutics such as “NeuroWearables” that you can try, rent, or buy to enhance brain health and your thriving life.
*We continue to identify and enhance our professional network of partners and resources to increase access to service. We welcome interested professionals, interns and students to contact us to for more information.
**COVID precautions continue to be practiced by professionals on-site.