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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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