Curio Counselling Calgary

When looking for mental health counselling, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed by all the different types of therapy being offered. You may be wondering what it means when a therapist says they are trained in EMDR or CBT. Or you might want to know what to expect from a narrative therapist or an ACT practitioner. You may not have any idea what Somatic Therapies are even if you’ve heard someone talk about their effectiveness. To further complicate matters, some clinicians focus on one or two modes of therapy, while others use a variety of interventions from a number of different therapy types. How can you make an informed choice about what kind of therapy is best for your particular concerns? To get you started, we’ve compiled a list to introduce you to some of the most common and effective forms of therapy and identified some of the main presenting concerns each type can help treat. These are very brief descriptions and we recommend further research before deciding which type of thera...

The conversation didn’t contain a single false statement. You replayed it three times in your head to be sure. They never lied — not technically. But somehow you ended that exchange with a version of reality that turned out to be wrong, and now you’re standing in the kitchen wondering how that happened, and what else you don’t know. That’s lying by omission. It’s the deception that doesn’t require a lie. It’s the truth shaped through silence — what they chose not to say, what they let you assume, the question they answered while leaving out the part that mattered. For many people, finding out about an omission hurts more than discovering an outright lie. There’s no clean moment of dishonesty to point at. Just the slow realisation that you’ve been making decisions, building trust, and investing in a relationship while missing information your partner had the whole time. The betrayal isn’t in any single sentence. It’s...

You’re constantly busy and never quite caught up. You finish a sprint at work and immediately stack the next one. You can’t remember the last time you did something purely for the pleasure of doing it. Or maybe the opposite — you’re full of ideas and longing, but the follow-through never quite happens. Plans drift. Projects stall. The day disappears. Both of these are signs of an imbalance between two energies most of us carry without naming: the energy of doing and the energy of being . In many traditions — from Taoism’s yin and yang, to Hinduism’s Shakti and Shiva, to Carl Jung’s framework of inner opposites — these are called masculine and feminine energy. The names are old. The pattern is universal. And almost everyone in modern life is leaning hard into one side. This guide breaks down what masculine and feminine energy actually are (and aren’t), how imbalance shows up in your body and your relationships, and the practical work Calgary ...