Is anxiety disrupting your life? Our therapists are here to help.

Anxiety is what happens when we experience uncertainty or anticipate a future danger. We feel nervousness, worry, distress, tension, or other feelings in our bodies, as a result.

It is natural and can be beneficial. For example, it can serve to prepare us to perform more optimally in challenging situations, such as exams, athletic contests, or job interviews, but only up to a certain point. If the anxiety exceeds that point, it becomes counterproductive. Anxiety also serves a beneficial purpose when a person is in a truly dangerous situation. It prepares the body to recognize and escape that situation!

We all experience anxiety from time to time, but for many people, it can become excessive (e.g. panic attacks), or chronic, and exist even when there is no objective danger (or when the danger is small). In these instances, anxiety can disrupt our lives, and be debilitating.

Some experience anxiety about only specific things or situations (e.g. PTSD). For others, it is more general (e.g. generalized anxiety disorder). We are not always aware of our anxiety or how to manage it, and sometimes we try to adapt in ways that are counterproductive or unhealthy. For example, anxiety can lead to limiting our interactions socially (e.g. social phobia), isolating ourselves (e.g. agoraphobia), or turning to substances or behaviours to cope. We may face anxiety in the workplace, in our personal relationships, or in social settings.

Therapy may be able to help with anxiety by providing you with a safe place to share your feelings and experiences. Therapy can also help teach people how to relax and look at situations in new, less frightening ways, and help people develop better coping and problem-solving skills. It can often provide strategies to manage your symptoms in daily life and stressful situations.

At Welling Centre, we aim to go beyond the symptoms. We want to help you uncover what for some people are hidden, underlying causes of worries and fears. Our goal is to help you find the source for healing inside yourself so that you can regain a sense of balance in your life that may have been lost, to help you grow and feel whole.

We have therapists with varied experience and rates who specialize in helping people with their anxiety. Explore their profiles and rates below and click on the ‘Book Appointment’ button to get started with online booking.

Wendy Myshak, BA, RTC, CT

Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, Psychotherapist

Wendy is a heart centred, intuitive, counsellor who takes an integrative approach to therapy in the areas of dependencies and recovery, stress, depression, spiritual emergency, and generational trauma. Wendy is trained in Transpersonal Counselling Psychology, and is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor with integrated and lived experiences that support deep healing.

Her work in the counselling field began with a focus on supporting individuals with substance use disorders and recovery, as well deep work with groups. She has 5 years of clinical experience in individual and group therapy. Wendy has been influenced by the work of Chuck Spezzano, Carl Jung, Stanislav Grof, and Rupert Spira. Her holistically integrated therapy approach is based on Transpersonal theories, and helping individuals wake up to who they really are. Wendy’s goal is to help people understand their issues and uncover positive ways to move past them and integrate this new awareness into their lives. She is skilled at creating a psychologically safe space to do this deep work and to wake up from the illusions of the ego mind of form and fear.

She supports people to come into flow with life and the divine using a psychotherapeutic approach that is informed by non-dual understanding, which bridges the gap between spirit and psychotherapy. As well, Wendy is trained in relational therapies such as, Experiential, Family Systems Theory, Yalom and Gestalt, Breath-Work, Individual, Group, and Somatic Therapies, as well as Eastern Mindfulness and Meditation practices. She is skilled in various forms of consciousness raising methods including, Buddhist Meditation, Holotropic Breathwork ™, Jungian Dream work, and uses Archetypal-based Tarot cards as a supplemental tool. She has an interest in; and experience with, the healing potential of non-ordinary and non-dual states of consciousness. Through Wendy’s experience with these deep healing states, she can hold space for deep-rooted change; and meet people in their deepest shadows with presence, embodiment, compassion, and grounding.

In her off time, Wendy practices mindfulness, Tarot, travel, exploring with like-minded friends the true nature of who we are. She has spent time in Buddhist Retreats, Non-dual contemplation retreats, assisting Holotropic Breathwork ™ retreats, and increasingly sitting quietly, enjoying the beauty of life.

Each session with Wendy is available for a $130 fee and is eligible for extended health benefits through some insurance companies. She is currently offering in person, video, and phone sessions.

If you are interested in an appointment with Wendy, call 780-222-7405 or book online by clicking the ‘Book an Appointment’ button.

Deanna Clarke, BHSc, CCYC, CCAC, RTC

Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, Psychotherapist

Deanna Clarke (Dee) is driven by an authentic and non-judgemental curiosity. Her goal is to provide a safe and sacred space for clients to feel empowered to create change in their lives. She is an experienced therapist who specializes in counselling for individuals, couples, children and youth, dependencies and recovery therapy, and transpersonal psychotherapy. She creates a nurturing environment for young individuals, offers empathy and evidence-based methods in dependencies and recovery therapy, and focuses on spiritual aspects in transpersonal therapy. Deanna tailors therapy sessions to promote healing, empowerment, and overall well-being.

Deanna started her career working with children and youth and persons with disabilities in 2009 while completing her Child and Youth Counselling Diploma. Upon completion of her undergrad in Dependencies Counselling, she began working with people struggling with dependancy issues and mental health and working with children and youth in care until completing her diploma in Transpersonal Therapeutic Counselling in 2023. She is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor with the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists and continues to work with adults and youth in the dependancies and mental health capacities while working with clients in her private practice.

As a result of Deanna’s own healing journey, she has been able to change the story of her life. She strives to live her life experiencing all that comes, without judgement or expectations. Deanna is deeply committed to the idea that spirituality serves as a cornerstone of recovery and mental wellness. Embracing spirituality provides us with a profound sense of purpose, belonging, and inner resilience that guides us through life’s challenges. She believes that when we challenge ourselves, we create an opportunity for healing and growth. Her intention is to create a safe, supportive, and inclusive space where clients can explore and nurture their spiritual journey as an essential component of their healing process. Deanna’s holistic approach to therapy is centered around discovering who people are and what they need. She is committed to supporting those she works with in making connections between their spiritual, mental, physical, social, emotional, creative, and intellectual needs to create the change they are seeking.

Each 50-minute session with Deanna is available for a $130 fee and is eligible for extended health benefits through some insurance companies. 

If you are interested in an appointment with Deanna, call 780-222-7405 or book online by clicking the ‘Book an Appointment’ button.

Stewart Cranston, MC, BA

Canadian Certified Counsellor

Stewart holds degrees in Counselling (Masters), and Psychology (BA). He has been counselling since 2023 in private practice settings and at a non-profit organization working with survivors of sexual violence. He is a thoughtful and compassionate therapist with a calming presence. He is dedicated to helping clients to live more freely and self-actualized in the face of life’s challenges.

Stewart approaches therapy with psychodynamic, social functionalist, and existential perspectives, and implements methods from compassion focused therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and three-phase trauma therapy. His therapy has been influenced by the works of Judith Herman, Hannah Levenson, Irvin Yalom, Paul Gilbert, and Alfred Adler. He believes that psychotherapy is a process of deep discovery, where the therapist and client work together to uncover patterns which developed in the past, and repeat in the present within emotions, beliefs, drives, and relationships.

Stewart’s research efforts have led him to focus on the problem of moral injury, and is he is engaged in spreading knowledge about it.

Each 50-minute session with Stewart is available for a $160 fee and may be eligible for extended health benefits through some insurance companies.

If you are interested in an appointment with Stewart, call 780-222-7405 or book online by clicking the ‘Book an Appointment’ button.

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