Claire Cummings, Psychotherapist, Registered Social Worker

As a psychotherapist and registered social worker in Calgary, I offer trauma-informed therapy for adults navigating anxiety, burnout, complex family dynamics, and spiritual or religious trauma. Many of the people I work with are high-functioning caregivers, adult children of emotionally immature parents, or women in midlife who feel responsible for everyone else, while quietly carrying their own overwhelm. My approach integrates internal family systems (IFS), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), trauma-sensitive mindfulness, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). Rather than focusing only on symptom reduction, we work to understand the protective strategies that once kept you safe, but may now be keeping you stuck. Together, we explore patterns such as people-pleasing, perfectionism, hyper-independence, and emotional over-responsibility, with curiosity instead of judgment. I view anxiety, depression, and relational distress not as personal failures, but as adaptive responses to childhood. Therapy becomes a space to build self-trust, strengthen boundaries, process unresolved trauma, and develop greater emotional clarity. We attend to both thinking and embodied experience, recognizing that healing happens not just cognitively, but through the nervous system. Clients often tell me they feel deeply seen and understood in our work. My style is collaborative, steady, and attuned. I do not position myself as the expert on your life; instead, I help you reconnect with your own internal wisdom, so you can move forward with greater confidence and alignment. I offer in-person therapy in Calgary and secure virtual therapy across Alberta.