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Our Services

Whatever brings you here, we recognize that everyone's story is different.

Care for Your Mind, Relationships & Well-Being.

Explore our services to see what may feel right for you.

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Individual Therapy

Sometimes you need a space that's just for you. Individual therapy gives you the opportunity to talk openly, better understand what you're experiencing, and work toward the changes that matter most to you.

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Couples Counselling

Relationships are not always easy. Couples counselling provides a supportive space to strengthen communication, better understand one another, and work through challenges together.

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Family Counselling

Families go through difficult seasons too. You may be navigating conflict, parenting challenges, or major life changes, family counselling helps create a space for everyone to feel heard.

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Child & Teen Counselling

Growing up comes with challenges that aren't always easy to put into words. We offer age-appropriate support to help children and teens navigate emotions, relationships, school, and life changes.

Appointment Options

Choose what works best for you.

In-Person Appointments

Prefer meeting face-to-face? Visit us at our Northeast Edmonton clinic designed to help you feel at ease. Free parking available.

Virtual Appointments

Would you rather meet from home? Secure online appointments make it easy to connect with your therapist from anywhere in Alberta.

Different Approaches, One Goal; helping you move forward.

Our clinicians draw from different approaches depending on their training, experience, scope of practice, and the needs and preferences of each client. Not every clinician offers every approach listed.

Therapeutic Approach at Brintnell Counselling & Psychology

Therapeutic Approaches

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, often called CBT, can help clients notice connections between thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and daily patterns.


    It may include practical strategies for anxiety, stress, low mood, perfectionism, emotional regulation, boundaries, and habits that no longer feel helpful.

  • DBT-informed skills may support clients with emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, communication, and navigating intense emotions.


    These tools may be helpful when someone feels overwhelmed, reactive, emotionally exhausted, or unsure how to respond in difficult moments.

  • Trauma-informed counselling recognizes that difficult or distressing experiences can affect emotions, relationships, trust, safety, body responses, and daily life.


    This approach emphasizes pacing, collaboration, choice, emotional safety, and respect for each person’s lived experience.

  • EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a structured therapy approach offered by select clinicians who have completed relevant EMDR training.


    It may be used to support clients who are working with distressing memories or ongoing emotional responses connected to past experiences.


    EMDR is not offered by every clinician. Please review individual clinician profiles to see which clinicians currently provide EMDR therapy.

  • Attachment-informed approaches explore how early relationships and life experiences may shape emotional safety, trust, connection, boundaries, and relationship patterns.


    This may be helpful for clients navigating people-pleasing, fear of rejection, conflict, difficulty trusting others, relationship anxiety, or patterns that continue to show up in close relationships.

  • Emotion-focused and experiential approaches can create space to explore emotions, internal conflict, relationship dynamics, and the experiences beneath repeated patterns.


    Depending on the clinician, this may involve reflection, guided exercises, role-play, or support with connecting more clearly to emotions, needs, and values.

  • Somatic and nervous-system-informed approaches recognize that stress, emotions, and past experiences can show up in the body as well as the mind.


    This may involve grounding, body awareness, pacing, mindfulness, and practical regulation strategies for clients who feel overwhelmed, disconnected, anxious, or constantly on alert.

  • Mindfulness and self-compassion approaches can help clients slow down, notice their thoughts and emotions with greater awareness, and respond to themselves with less judgment.


    These approaches may be helpful for anxiety, perfectionism, burnout, shame, self-criticism, emotional overwhelm, and difficulty being kind to yourself.

  • Person-centred counselling places value on the client’s lived experience, goals, strengths, and pace.


    Rather than assuming there is one right answer, this approach creates space for clients to explore what matters to them and identify next steps that feel meaningful and realistic.

  • Solution-focused approaches help clients identify strengths, clarify goals, recognize what is already working, and consider practical next steps.


    This may be helpful for clients navigating a specific challenge, decision, transition, boundary, relationship concern, or area where they would like more direction.

  • Narrative approaches create space for clients to explore the stories they hold about themselves, their relationships, and their experiences.


    This may help clients separate themselves from problems, recognize strengths, make sense of difficult experiences, and reconnect with values, identity, and possibility.

  • Culturally responsive and identity-affirming care recognizes that culture, race, immigration, belonging, gender, sexuality, faith, family expectations, and lived experience can meaningfully shape mental health and relationships.


    This approach creates space to explore identity, values, belonging, marginalization, cultural expectations, and experiences that may not always be understood in traditional counselling spaces.

  • Neurodiversity-affirming counselling supports clients in exploring ADHD, autism, executive functioning, sensory experiences, identity, relationships, self-understanding, and the practical impact of neurodivergence on daily life.


    This is not an assessment or diagnostic service unless specifically stated by the clinician. It is counselling support that respects neurodivergent experiences and individual differences.

  • For children and younger teens, counselling may include play-based or creative approaches that are adapted to the child’s age, developmental stage, comfort level, and needs.


    Depending on the clinician, this may include games, storytelling, drawing, activities, play, parent consultation, or other age-appropriate ways for children to express thoughts and emotions.

The approaches described here are not a complete list of every clinician’s services or training. Your clinician can discuss the approach they use and answer questions about what may be appropriate for your goals.

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