Why We Do Therapy Differently

Your brain is constantly learning from experience.

Difficult, stressful or painful experiences can influence the beliefs you develop, the things your nervous system learns to react to, and the automatic patterns you carry into relationships, work and everyday life.​

Sometimes those responses happen before conscious thought ever gets a chance to intervene.

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​That's why our therapists don't work from only one direction.​

At Clear Minds, we work top down, bottom up and side to side.​

We use evidence-based, neuroscience-informed and experiential therapeutic approaches to work with conscious thoughts and beliefs, nervous-system responses, learned patterns and the experiences that helped create them.​

 

Therapy may involve conversation, but it doesn't have to stop there.​

We can challenge a belief.

Regulate a response.

Practice a different reaction.

Create an experience.

And give your brain new evidence that something different is possible.​

 

Real Change for Real Life

We are practical and active in the therapy room.

Our goal isn't simply for you to leave an appointment understanding yourself better.

 

We want what happens in therapy to translate into what happens when real life happens.​

That might mean responding differently during conflict.

Recognizing anxiety before it takes over.

Setting a boundary without immediately abandoning it.

Interrupting a relationship pattern you've repeated for years.​

Regulating your body when it detects a threat that isn't actually happening now.

Or discovering that something you once believed about yourself no longer has to determine what happens next. 

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We help clients bring unconscious patterns into awareness, challenge beliefs that keep them stuck, develop emotional-regulation and executive-functioning skills, strengthen relationships and build practical strategies they can continue using outside the counselling room.​

 

One Practice. Different Therapists. A Shared Philosophy.​

Clear Minds is a group practice.

Our therapists bring different personalities, professional backgrounds, areas of interest and therapeutic approaches to their work. That allows us to help match clients with a therapist who fits what they're experiencing and how they want to work.​

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There is a philosophy that connects our team:

Therapy should create meaningful change.​

 

We provide counselling for concerns including anxiety, trauma and PTSD, depression, stress and burnout, relationship difficulties, communication, infidelity and trust, grief and loss, emotional regulation, self-esteem, life transitions, executive functioning and recurring patterns that leave people feeling stuck.​

 

We provide individual counselling, couples and marriage counselling, and family counselling, along with groups, workshops and intensive therapeutic services.

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​Counselling in Medicine Hat, Lethbridge & Across Alberta

 

Clear Minds Counselling provides in-person appointments from our offices in: 

 

Medicine Hat

104 – 1865 Dunmore Road SEMedicine Hat, Alberta​

 

Lethbridge

1518 3 Ave SouthLethbridge, Alberta

 

Virtual counselling is available throughout Alberta.

 

Daytime, evening and weekend appointments are available, with multiple therapists offering different areas of experience and availability.​

 

You Don't Have to Keep Repeating the Same Patterns

You may not be able to change what taught your brain to respond the way it does.

But you can change what happens next.​

If you've been thinking about counselling—or you've tried therapy before and are looking for a different experience—you don't need to have everything figured out before you start.

 

Ready for Something Different?​

 

Meet our therapists or book an appointment and we'll help you find the right place to begin.

 

Real World Solutions for Real Time Challenges.