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When Your Teen Pulls Away: How Emotionally Focused Family Therapy Helps You Reach Them Again
When your teen starts pulling away, it can feel like an emotional wall. At Canopy Cove Counselling, our EFFT-trained therapists help families rebuild connection, understand emotions, and create lasting bonds.
How to Support Your Child Through Anxiety Using Emotionally Focused Family Therapy
When your child feels anxious, your calm presence, not perfection, is what heals. Emotionally Focused Family Therapy helps you tune in, connect, and soothe your child’s worries through secure attachment. At Canopy Cove Counselling, we guide parents in turning moments of fear into moments of closeness.
Family Therapy Explained: What It Is, How It Works, and When to Seek Help
Family therapy offers a safe, guided space for families to heal, grow, and reconnect. This blog explores what happens in family therapy, why it matters, and how it can help families navigate emotional and relational challenges.
When Thanksgiving Hurts: Finding Connection and Healing
Thanksgiving can bring up more than gratitude, it can stir loneliness, grief, and family tensions. If this season feels heavy or isolating, you are not alone. At Canopy Cove Counselling, we understand the emotional struggles that many face and offer Emotionally Focused Therapy for individuals, couples, and families. Through EFIT, EFCT, and EEFT, you can begin to understand your emotions, heal old wounds, and find authentic connection even when it feels missing. This holiday, take the first step toward emotional safety and meaningful relationships.
Finding Gratitude in All Emotions This Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving can bring up complex emotions, especially for those facing trauma, anxiety, or depression. At Canopy Cove Counselling, we believe gratitude includes holding space for all feelings, joy, pain, and everything in between. Discover practical tools rooted in therapy to nurture your emotional wellbeing this holiday season.
3 Signs It's Time for Couples Therapy
Are you and your partner feeling more like roommates than lovers? Do the same fights keep coming back, or has emotional safety vanished? Learn 3 powerful signs it’s time to consider couples therapy and how Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) can guide you back to each other.
Unlocking Peak Performance Part 3: Somatic Experiencing for Athletes
Discover how Somatic Experiencing, a body-based therapy, helps athletes regulate stress, overcome performance blocks, and enhance resilience for peak athletic performance.
Unlocking Peak Performance Part 2: EMDR Therapy for Athletes
EMDR therapy is gaining traction among athletes seeking to boost performance, manage stress, and heal from athletic traumas. Whether you're a competitive athlete or weekend runner, EMDR can help you move past mental blocks and into peak performance.
Unlocking Peak Performance: How Sports Therapy Can Support Athletes On and Off the Field
Discover how therapy, including EMDR and somatic approaches, can help athletes improve performance, manage stress, and overcome injury. Whether you're a competitive athlete or a weekend warrior, mental health is a key part of success.
Meet Our Therapist Brenda
Meet our therapist Brenda, dedicated to helping kids, teens, college students, women, men, learn more about managing their anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, parenting stress and relationship challenges.
Will Couples Therapy Make Us Fight More at Home?
Worried that couples therapy might lead to more arguments at home? Learn what to expect from Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), why it may stir emotions early on, and how it actually leads to less conflict and deeper connection.
“If We Go To Couples Counselling, I Will Be Blamed For Everything!” Why This Won’t Happen In Therapy With Us.
Worried you’ll be blamed for everything in couples therapy? That’s a common fear, but at Canopy Cove Counselling, we don’t take sides. Learn how Emotionally Focused Therapy helps you feel heard, safe, and supported together.
Why You Might LOVE Daytime Therapy Appointments
Daytime therapy offers more than faster booking—it’s often more effective. Discover why individuals, couples, and families in Calgary, Red Deer, and Airdrie love mid-day appointments.
Beneath the Argument: A Cry for Connection
Arguments often mask a deeper need: the desire for connection. In this blog, we explore how Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy can help partners in Olds, Airdrie, Calgary, Red Deer and throughout Alberta move beyond conflict to rediscover closeness. Whether you're seeking marriage counselling, relationship counselling, or working with a couples therapist in our office in Olds, Alberta or online in Alberta, this approach offers lasting emotional healing.
Meet Canopy Cove Counselling: A New Name. Same Team. Same Care.
We Have a New Name (But the Same Care You Know). Williamson & Associates is now Canopy Cove Counselling. Discover the meaning behind our new name, what’s staying the same, and how this fresh chapter reflects our continued commitment to safe, collaborative, and deeply personal care.
Why Intensive Couples Therapy Might Be the Reset Your Relationship Needs
“We love each other, but we can’t seem to find each other anymore.” If this sounds familiar, an EFT Couples Counselling Intensive might be what you need. Whether you’re stuck in painful patterns, feeling distant, or facing a crisis, this focused, immersive experience offers the space, structure, and support to help you reconnect and heal—together.
The Benefits of Intensive EMDR Sessions for Trauma and PTSD Healing
Curious about Intensive EMDR sessions? Learn how extended trauma PTSD therapy sessions can provide deep healing, continuity, and flexibility. Find out if it's right for you and schedule a free consultation.
How Many Therapy Sessions Do I Need? Understanding the Path to Emotional Healing
How many therapy sessions will it take to feel better? While there’s no set answer, understanding factors like the severity of your mental health concerns and the type of therapy can help you plan. Learn how frequent sessions can lead to better results in your healing journey.
How to Cope with PTSD Triggers During the Holiday Season
The holidays can be overwhelming for individuals with PTSD. Explore ways to manage triggers, set boundaries, and prioritize self-care for a more peaceful season.
6 Tips to Survive Holiday Stress as a Couple
Feeling overwhelmed this holiday season? Discover 6 expert tips to manage holiday stress as a couple, reconnect with your partner, and create meaningful memories together.
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