People come to therapy in the middle of a change that has not settled yet: a career shift or job loss, separation or divorce, becoming a parent, children leaving, aging, a move, a diagnosis, a loss of role or community, or a major change in belief or direction.
Therapy is usually not about “coping with change” in the abstract. The harder questions are often about uncertainty, grief, identity, competing obligations, and decisions the change has made unavoidable.
What can make a transition difficult
A transition can be wanted and still costly. It can also be unwanted and still require decisions. Either way, people often find that old ways of organizing a week, a relationship, or a sense of self no longer fit, and what comes next is not obvious yet.
That can look like indecision, irritability, anxiety, low mood, or a feeling of being between lives. Some of it is grief for a role, a community, a marriage, a career, or a version of the future that is no longer available.
What we may work on
We may clarify what has actually changed and what has not, sort through competing obligations, make decisions that have been postponed, grieve what has been lost, and figure out what matters enough to guide what comes next.
If the main issue is a faith transition, that page is the more direct starting point. Career stress and burnout have their own page when the problem is depletion more than a change of role.
This is individual therapy. Relationship, parenting, and family changes can absolutely be part of the work, but I do not provide couples, family, or child therapy.
I work with adults and older teens, generally age 16 and up.
Practical information
In person in Edmonton and virtually throughout Alberta. 50-minute sessions. $235 per session. Direct billing is available with many extended-health insurance providers depending on your plan.
