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Individual Therapy

An individual therapy specialist can help you manage anxiety, depression, self-criticism, and other challenging thoughts and emotions. You’ll learn practical tools to navigate your feelings, handle life’s stressors, and feel empowered to improve your overall well-being.

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Common Challenges in Individual Therapy

When life feels overwhelming, difficult to manage, or presents significant challenges, individual therapy can be a powerful solution. It offers valuable insights into your struggles, helps build resilience, and empowers you to regain control of your life.

Some common reasons people seek individual therapy include, but are not limited to:

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Relationship Issues

  • Anger

  • Feelings of being generally overwhelmed

  • Post college/early career decisions

  • Disordered eating or other self-harming behaviours

  • Intense stress

  • Self-worth/self-esteem

  • Self-care

  • Feeling discriminated against or targeted

  • Domestic violence

  • Managing changing life roles

  • Separation/divorce

  • Infertility/fertility issues

  • Grief and loss

  • Parenting young children or special needs children

  • Parenting teens

  • Work issues

  • Family or life transitions

“In my early professional years I was asking the question, How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”

Carl Rogers

How Individual Therapy Can Enhance Your Mental Well-Being?

The purpose of individual therapy is to create a safe, compassionate, and private space where you can have open conversations and work through challenges. Therapists, who come from diverse academic, professional, and cultural backgrounds, are skilled mental health professionals who specialize in addressing various issues that affect your mental well-being.

Therapy can help in many ways, including:

  • Offering a non-judgmental listening ear
  • Identifying your specific issues and their triggers
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of your current coping strategies
  • Developing positive, effective ways to manage stress
  • Supporting problem-solving efforts
  • Strengthening self-confidence, self-worth, and resilience

Make a decision to show up for yourself today!

Reach Out
If you need immediate assistance, please use these resources
  • Crisis Line: 416-408-4357
  • The Canada Suicide Prevention Service 1-833-45-4566 or text 45645 4 pm-midnight ET.
  • Warm line  12pm -8pm 416-323-3721
  • Warmline 8pm to midnight – 416-960-9276 (WARM) or text 647-557-5882
  • Health Link – 811
  • Community Resources – 211 Alberta
  • Crisis Text Line – Text HOME to 686868
  • MyHealth.Alberta.ca
  • Addiction Services Helpline: Help for problems with gambling, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. 1-866-332-2322 (24 Hours)
  • Alberta Quits Helpline: Tobacco cessation counsellors can help you plan to quit, manage cravings, and stay on track.
    Website     www.albertaquits.ca or 1-866-710-7848 (8am-8pm)
  • Bullying Helpline: Advice or support on bullying.
    www.bullyfreealberta.ca or 1-888-456-2323 (24 Hours)
  • Child Abuse Hotline: Call if you think a child is being abused or neglected by a parent or guardian.  1-800-387-5437 (24 Hours)
  • Dementia Advice: Advice and support for people who have problems with thinking, reasoning, or remembering (e.g., dementia) or the people who care for them. 811 (24 hours)
  • Family Violence Info Line: Call if you (or someone you know) are going through family violence or abuse if you have questions or want to find out about programs, resources, and services.  310-1818 (24 Hours)
  • First Nations, Inuit and Metís Peoples: Call 1-855-242-3310 if you are in a mental health crisis.  
  • Income Support Contact Centre: Financial help for Albertans who don’t have resources to meet their basic needs (e.g., food, clothing, shelter).
    1-866-644-5135 (24 Hours)
  • Kids Help Phone: Free, anonymous, confidential telephone and web counselling for youth in Canada.)  
    www.kidshelpphone.ca or 1-800-668-6868 (24 Hours)
  • Medication & Herbal Preparation Advice Line: Advice and information about medicines and herbal products from pharmacists and nurses. 1-800-332-1414 (5pm-9am)
  • Mental Health Helpline: Offers help for mental health concerns for Albertans. 1-877-303-2642 (24 Hours)
  • Missing Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQIA+ peoples: 1-844-413-6649 
  • National Indian Residential School Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419 
  • Poison & Drug Information Service: Confidential advice about poisons, chemicals, medicines, and herbal products. 1-800-332-1414 (24 Hours)
  • Rehabilitation Advice Line: Occupational therapists and physiotherapists give advice and help finding services for people with concerns about pain, movement, and daily activities. Phone line:
    1-833-379-0563 (Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm)
  • Native Youth Crisis Hot Line: 1-877-209-1266