Women's Counselling Calgary
Focusing on women's unique challenges and strengths,
Aspen Psychology in Calgary delivers specialized support.
Embrace your journey as a woman and thrive.
Women's Counselling Calgary
Focusing on women's unique challenges and strengths, Aspen Psychology in Calgary delivers specialized support. Embrace your journey as a woman and thrive.
Melissa Sawers
Registered Psychologist
Melissa is a Registered Psychologist with a Master of Counselling.
Melissa believes that engaging in a collaborative, therapeutic process can help people live happier, healthier, more productive lives.
Your Personalized Counselling Journey
Women face unique challenges and pressures. When we don't take care of our mental health and well-being, juggling personal, professional, and family roles can become overwhelming.
At Aspen Psychology in Calgary, our women's counselling services will identify effective strategies and tools to help you reconnect with your inner resilience to navigate your unique challenges.
Our women’s counselling creates a safe space and supportive space for women who are seeking support with a wide range of mental health concerns, including anxiety, postpartum depression, trauma, and challenges related to life transitions. Our experienced female therapists focus on strengthening emotional well being and emotional health, helping you develop insight, coping tools, and the confidence to build healthier relationships and move forward with greater balance and resilience.
Specialized Psychology, Counselling, and Therapeutic Help. From a Woman to a Woman
The ebb and flow of life as a woman — from career moves to motherhood to personal growth — is unique and beautiful. But when your days are more struggle than joy, women need specialized help. Whether you're battling self-esteem issues, or if you have experienced sexual assault, or you are grappling with body image, or navigating the challenges of womanhood, our team is here with the expertise and empathy you deserve.
Like the nurturing roots of an Aspen grove, Aspen's Calgary Counsellors are here to provide you with the support and tools so you can not only face challenges but thrive through them.
Specialized Psychology, Counselling, and Therapeutic Help. From a Woman to a Woman
The ebb and flow of life as a woman — from career moves to motherhood to personal growth — is unique and beautiful. But when your days are more struggle than joy, women need specialized help. Whether you're battling self-esteem issues, grappling with body image, or navigating the challenges of womanhood, our team is here with the expertise and empathy you deserve.
Like the nurturing roots of an Aspen grove, Aspen's Calgary Counsellors are here to provide you with the support and tools so you can not only face challenges but thrive through them.
Aspen Offers Women:
Individual Psychology for Women
Our counselling program for women provides support in many forms and for a wide array of needs.
From personal challenges and mental health issues to professional hurdles and self care we provide the guidance, understanding, confidential counselling services, and tools you need to reclaim healthy satisfying lives.
We can help you with depression, anxiety, eating disorders, domestic violence and to build supportive relationships and sleep challenges. From your first womens counselling appointment, we also give you the tools to build your resilience one day at a time.
Marriage & Relationship Guidance
Marriage and Relationships can be a sanctuary. When they become the source of distress, it's time to seek guidance. Our counselling services will help you transform conflicts into opportunities for a deeper connection.
Our women's counselling program is a safe space that has helped numerous women navigate their relationships and overcome many mental health issues connected to relationships and marriage. It has been the first step towards healing brokenness in a relationship.
Rediscover your voice. Get the tools to increase and improve communication and connection.
Discover Relationship Clarity
Motherhood & Postpartum Support
Transitioning into motherhood is both rewarding and demanding. Motherhood can also be exhausting, numbing and overwhelming.
The therapists in our women's counselling program are here to empower you with tools and guide and support you on this new journey. Some moms have also experienced childhood abuse themselves and need help to manage that as they transition into parenthood, and adult counselling can help.
We also have group counselling in our mother's groups for additional information click here.
Let Us Be a Part of Your Motherhood Village
Women's Trauma Therapy
Our specialized trauma therapy for women provides a safe environment to heal, grow, and reclaim your life. Because recovering from trauma is a process, and we will be here for you in person, on every step of the journey.
Adult counselling, especially for women, can be the difference in a mental health journey.
Our women's counselling program and counselling services are designed to help women with many forms of trauma.
Seek Healing with Trauma Therapy
Meet Our Women’s Counselling Team
Our therapists support women with emotional well-being, relationships, parenting, and life’s transitions. Each brings a different mix of experience and approaches. Explore the profiles below to find someone whose style and areas of focus feel right for you.
Melissa Sawers
Registered Psychologist
Melissa supports women navigating pregnancy, new motherhood, family changes, and the emotional demands of parenting. She brings specialized perinatal mental health training and draws from cognitive behavioural, family systems, emotion-focused family, and solution-focused approaches to strengthen coping and connection.
Lisa Thompson
Registered Psychologist
Lisa supports women experiencing anxiety, low mood, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Her collaborative approach builds on each client’s strengths and draws from solution-focused, family systems, and polyvagal approaches. She also offers art therapy as another way to explore feelings and find new perspectives.
Mary-Lou Carlyle
Registered Psychologist
Mary-Lou supports women with anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and relationship or parenting challenges. Her warm, down-to-earth approach draws from attachment, cognitive behavioural, acceptance and commitment, and solution-focused therapies. She also uses Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) in her trauma work.
Kate Dinning
Registered Psychologist
Kate works with women on stress, anxiety, depression, boundaries, confidence, and communication. Her holistic approach considers emotional, mental, and physical well-being, drawing from attachment, cognitive behavioural, and solution-focused approaches. She is also trained in EMDR for trauma work.
Alanna Kelly
Registered Psychologist
Alanna supports women navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, burnout, perfectionism, and self-esteem or relationship concerns. She is an EMDRIA-certified EMDR therapist with additional training in early trauma. Her collaborative approach also draws from attachment-based, cognitive behavioural, narrative, and emotion-focused therapies.
Meghan McDonald
Registered Psychologist
Meghan supports women with grief, anxiety, burnout, self-esteem, life transitions, and relationship concerns, including women in the LGBTQ+ community. Her affirming, trauma-informed approach draws from cognitive behavioural, dialectical behaviour, narrative, family systems, and solution-focused therapies. She also has training in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART).
Women's Counselling Modalities and Specialities
From tailored therapeutic modalities to addressing common challenges faced by women,
our expertise ensures your journey with us is both empowering and transformative:
Therapeutic Modalities:
- Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing)
- Family Systems Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman
- Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)
- Art Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
Common Challenges
- Self-esteem
- Depression
- Anxiety + Anxiety disorders
- Eating Disorders
- Burnout
- Anger management
- Grief
- Stress
- Self esteem
- Trauma & PTSD
- Chronic pain
- Relationship challenges (work & personal)
- Childhood abouse
- Social challenges
- Pregnancy, Perinatal, Postpartum
- Sexual Assault
- Marriage challenges
- Family conflict
- Coping skills
- Work/life balance
- Life transitions
- ADHD
- Parenting
- You've experienced abuse
Women's Counselling Modalities and Specialities
From tailored therapeutic modalities to addressing common challenges like anxiety strees and trauma faced by women, our expertise ensures your journey with us is both empowering and transformative:
Therapeutic Modalities:
- Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing)
- Family Systems Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman
- Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)
- Art Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
Our women's counselling program utilizes these modalities and therapies to help with several issues like anxiety stress, sexual assault trauma, relationship disfunction and others that are listed below.
Common Challenges
- Self-esteem + Depression
- Anxiety + Anxiety disorders
- Burnout
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Grief
- Stress
- Self esteem
- Trauma & PTSD
- Chronic pain
- Relationship challenges (work & personal)
- Childhood abuse
- Social challenges
- Pregnancy, Perinatal, Postpartum
- Sexual Assault
- Marriage challenges
- Family conflict
- Coping skills
- Work/life balance
- Life transitions
- ADHD
- Parenting
- Anxiety Stress
- Feeling Overwhelmed
- You've Experienced Abuse
Our women's counselling program is not limited tho just these, please contact us no matter what you are going through and let us provide you with support.
Dream & Build Your Shining Thriving Tomorrow
With Aspen's Women’s Counselling, from your first appointment, you can start dreaming of a brighter, balanced, and harmonious future. Because as you grow and heal, so does the community around you. Together, let's cultivate a space where every woman can rise, thrive, and shine.
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