Virtual and In-Person ADHD Counselling:

Your First Step Towards Change

Your path is unique, and you deserve ADHD therapy that's tailored to your specific challenges, strengths, lived experiences, and your vision for your future. We believe in your capacity to grow - and we’re here to guide you.

Whether you’re dipping your toe into therapy for the first time, or you’re no stranger to the therapy couch – choosing a new therapist is an important step!

ADHD counselling will transform how you see yourself, relate to others, and navigate daily life. Real change takes time, effort, and openness. It’s okay to feel unsure or hesitant. We’ll move forward together, at your pace, one step at a time.

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Is This How You Feel? Common Experiences with ADHD and Neurodiversity:

ADHD can make you feel like a constant and exhausting uphill climb. You might struggle to stay focused in conversations, forget tasks or appointments (even ones that are important to you), or feel restless even when you’re exhausted. Deadlines loom, your mind races, clutter builds, and relationships become strained from miscommunications or feeling judged.

It’s not that you aren’t trying; actually, you’re giving it your all! But sometimes it feels like no matter how hard you push, things slip through the cracks, and frustration and shame are quick to flare up.

At Calm Harbour Counselling in Calgary, we understand how frustrating and isolating this can be. We offer a supportive space where you can untangle these challenges, learn strategies that match how your brain works, and feel seen for who you are, not just how you function.

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Therapy Goals For Neurodiverse Clients

Emotional Processing

Emotions like shame, frustration, and loneliness add layers to the daily struggle of ADHD. Together, we’ll explore how it has shaped your experiences, relationships, and sense of self. Therapy offers space to name these feelings, build self-compassion, and begin accepting both where you are and what you’re facing - real steps toward lasting change.

Increasing Understanding

Knowing and understanding your executive functioning profile can shine a light on what’s been hardest and why. We’ll identify the specific areas that create daily friction and pain. Building on your unique strengths is key to tangible and practical changes in the areas that matter most to you.

Enhancing Emotional Regulation

Learn how to spot emotional and sensory triggers, pause before reacting, and respond with more calm and intention. Therapy can help you shift from feeling hijacked by emotions to feeling more in control and grounded, especially when facing setbacks, social stress, like feeling rejected or criticized.

Prioritizing and Organization

Therapy will support you in building realistic, tailored, and functional systems for planning, prioritizing, and breaking tasks into manageable steps. The goal isn’t perfection - it’s to reduce overwhelm, improve follow-through, and help daily life feel more manageable.

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Discover ADHD Counselling in Calgary

If you’re living with ADHD, you already know it’s not just about focus or forgetfulness. It can touch
every part of your life—work, relationships, emotions, and how you see yourself. At Calm Harbour,
we’re here to help you make sense of it all in a way that feels supportive and real.

Unlike other clinics that offer quick fixes or one-size-fits-all plans, we focus on building a supportive relationship with you that celebrates your strengths, get to know what’s been hard for you, and work with you to find strategies that actually fit your day-to-day life.

We work with neurodivergent clients in a way that’s collaborative and affirming. Therapy is shaped
around your needs—whether you’re looking to manage big emotions, get a handle on day-to-day
tasks, or make sense of years of feeling misunderstood. You deserve a connection that makes you feel respected, seen, and supported, not judged.

We’ll be with you through the messy parts and the progress. We’ll cheer you on when things go well, and stay with you when they don’t. Over time, therapy can help you feel more grounded, more confident, and more yourself. Whether you’re new to ADHD or have been managing it for years, you deserve support that sees the whole you.

ADHD Couples Counselling

When one or both partners in a relationship have ADHD, it can shape the way you connect, communicate, and even argue. Maybe you’ve found yourselves looping through the same misunderstandings, or one of you feels ignored, and the other feels criticized. Forgotten plans, emotional outbursts, unbalanced responsibilities, or missed cues can start to feel personal.

We’ve worked with many couples who love each other deeply but still end up caught in patterns that feel disconnected. At Calm Harbour, we help you slow down and make sense of what’s really happening underneath the frustration, and truly feel heard and understood by one another.

Therapy isn’t about blaming or shaming; it’s an act of care for one another to learn how ADHD shows up in your relationship and collaborate and connect over what you can do about it together.

You don’t have to keep having the same argument, pleading for change, or unintentionally causing each other pain. If you want to feel more connected and supported in your relationship, reaching out might be the first step toward getting unstuck and back on the same team.

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Our Guiding Values in ADHD Counselling

Compassion

Genuine empathy and care are the heart of the practice and woven through our work together.

Social Justice

Recognizing systemic inequalities and injustice, empowering, and advocating for change together.

Confidentiality

Privacy is key to safety, and yours will be honoured and respected in every possible way.

Acceptance

Welcoming all with non-judgement and sincerely celebrating all identities and backgrounds.

ADHD Therapy: Our 5-Step Process

Our Simple Steps to Getting Started.

Step One:

Gather up your courage and book a free initial ADHD consultation with one of our therapists by clicking here. Don’t worry, you’ll even get a reminder two days and two hours before the appointment.

We know ADHD brains can struggle to get started, so if all that feels possible right now is taking 10 sessions to reach out, just fill out our contact form, and we’ll get back to you asap. It can be difficult to take that first step, and we’re here to make sure the process is clear and you feel supported.

Step Two:

Make sure it’s a fit during the no-pressure connection call by sharing more about your hopes and concerns, asking any questions you might have, and discussing what change in managing your ADHD means to you. If you’re nervous or hesitant, we’ll take the lead, ask the right questions and make sure you know how therapy will help you by the end of our chat.

Step Three:

If you felt a connection, you can book a first session with your selected ADHD therapist in your consult or through our online calendar by clicking here . This session is for you to get to know each other a little more, share about your journey, and tell us more about your day-to-day life and the concerns that brought you to us. By the end of your first session we’ll have a shared understanding of your goals for ADHD therapy and you should feel confident knowing how we’ll get there together.

Step Four:

Give us feedback along the way – what you like, what you don't, and what you want to be different, so we can truly tailor your ADHD counselling process to exactly what you need. Don't worry. Not only can we take feedback, but we welcome it! We know it's a huge sign of your growth.

Step Five:

Celebrate your progress – we're here to highlight your achievements and validate all your hard work – we see you, and we're so proud!

Meet Our ADHD Therapists: You’re in Good Hands

Our therapists are kind, qualified, and here to support you, no matter where you are in your healing process.

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Angela Dore (she/her)

Specializing in 2SLGBTQ+/queer folks, trauma, anxiety, self-esteem neurodivergence (ADHD/ASD), and relationship counselling.

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Angela McGrath (she/her)

Specializing in relationship challenges, burnout, anxiety, stress, major life transitions, substance use, and neurodivergence.

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Frances Bucknor (she/her)

Specializing in neurodivergence, trauma, anxiety, stress, burnout, self-esteem, and depression.

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Ruth Reina (she/her)

Specializing in trauma, anxiety & stress, depression, racial identity, couples & relationship counselling, and first responders.

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Booking an ADHD Counselling Consultation

Your journey starts with your choice of a phone or video consultation, giving you an opportunity to share more about your hopes and concerns, ask questions, and explore what meaningful change could look like for you in ADHD counselling.

We encourage you to share as much of your experience and expectations as you're comfortable with. Our therapists will meet you where you're at and match your stage of change. You'll finish with a clear picture of your tailored ADHD counselling journey, whether in-person or remotely.

The fit between the counsellor and the client is the most important part of success on your ADHD therapy journey. There's no risk to a consultation – if by the end of our call, you decide you'd like a different therapeutic approach or if your therapist thinks you may be better matched with someone else, even a trusted colleague outside of our practice, our priority is finding you the best possible fit.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What Most People Want to Know Before Starting Counselling.

There’s no set timeline for ADHD counselling—everyone’s goals, challenges, and pace are different. Some clients come for a few months to build practical tools and clarity, while others choose longer-term support to work through emotional patterns, self-esteem, or relationship dynamics tied to ADHD.

In the early sessions, we’ll talk about what matters most to you and set a direction that feels manageable and meaningful. Whether you’re looking for short-term strategies or deeper personal growth, we’ll move at a pace that works for you. You’re not locked into a fixed number of sessions—we’ll check in regularly to make sure the process is helpful and aligned with your needs.

We use a range of approaches to support ADHD, depending on your needs and goals. These may include:

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Helps you work with difficult thoughts and emotions while building habits aligned with your values.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): Focuses on developing practical skills for time management, organization, and managing unhelpful thought patterns.
Narrative Therapy: Supports you in separating yourself from the problem and exploring how ADHD has shaped your story—and how you want to reshape it.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART): An evidence-based approach that can help address trauma or emotional experiences that often layer on top of ADHD.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): Especially helpful in ADHD couples counselling, EFT supports partners in understanding emotional cycles, strengthening connection, and improving communication.

We also integrate tools from mindfulness and somatic practices to support emotional regulation and nervous system awareness. Therapy is always adapted to your specific needs—our goal is to find what works best for your life and your brain.

Progress in ADHD therapy can look different for everyone—but over time, you might start to notice a few key shifts:

You’re catching unhelpful patterns sooner and feeling more in control of your reactions.
Daily tasks feel a little more manageable, even if they’re still hard sometimes.
You’re being kinder to yourself and carrying less shame around your struggles.
Communication in your relationships feels clearer or less reactive.
You feel more understood, more equipped, and more confident in how you move through the world.

Therapy isn’t about fixing everything overnight. It’s about a better understanding of yourself, and small, meaningful changes that build over time. We’ll check in regularly to reflect on what’s shifting and what still feels stuck—so you always know where you are in the process, and where we’re headed next.

Both formats can work well for ADHD, depending on what helps you stay most engaged and comfortable. In-person sessions can offer a distraction-free space and a stronger sense of structure, which some people with ADHD find grounding. Virtual sessions provide more flexibility and reduce barriers like transportation or scheduling, sometimes making it easier to follow through.

Research, including studies published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, shows that virtual therapy can be just as effective as in-person therapy for many mental health concerns, including ADHD. The key is choosing the setting that fits best with your focus, energy, and routine. One note: Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), a trauma-focused approach we may use in ADHD treatment, is generally more effective in person.

If you're not sure which is right for you, we're happy to talk it through and find the best fit for your needs.

ADHD counselling works best when you feel safer to share, comfortable, and feels like a collaboration. Here are a few ways to get the most out of the process:

Show up as you are—even if you're feeling scattered, or unsure what to say. Therapy is a space where you don’t have to have it all together.
Practice small changes between sessions. Progress often comes from testing out strategies in real life—not doing them perfectly, but seeing what helps.
Be honest about what’s working and what’s not. We’ll adjust the approach as needed so it fits your style and goals.
Ask questions and take breaks when needed. ADHD brains sometimes need time to process or movement to stay focused. That’s completely okay. We have baskets of fidget tools in the office!
Be kind to yourself. Healing, learning new habits, and understanding yourself takes time. We’re here to support you through all of it.

There’s no right way to do therapy—just your way. And we’ll work together to make it meaningful and manageable for you.

Our therapy sessions are typically $200 per 50 minutes for individuals, and $220 for couples. Some therapists on our team may offer slightly different rates depending on their training and experience.

We recognize that cost can be a barrier, and we’re happy to talk with you about options. If you're covered by insurance, check to see if your counsellor’s designation (Psychologist, Social Worker, or CCC) is included in your benefit plan to avoid any surprises. Often, we can direct bill, and if your benefits don’t allow for us to direct bill, we can always provide receipts to submit for reimbursement.

We also offer a limited number of sliding scale spots based on financial need. If cost is a concern, please reach out—we want therapy to be as accessible as possible.

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Your journey towards a better relationship and connection is a message away, and we're here to guide you at every step. Book your appointment effortlessly via the online booking page, or get in touch using our contact form.