Anxiety Therapy
Steady Your Mind. Reclaim Your Days.
Anxiety feels like a racing heart at work, worry that won't quiet down, or sudden panic on the Deerfoot. You don't have to face it alone.
At CPC Clinics, our Calgary anxiety therapists use proven methods, from CBT to mindfulness, built around you.
Book a Free ConsultationYour care is personalized, collaborative, and paced to your needs.
Here's what anxiety therapy with us includes:
We start by understanding your anxiety story, including your triggers and history. We also assess physical symptoms of anxiety, like a tight chest or racing pulse. This shapes a plan built around your specific anxiety, from generalized worry to panic or phobia.
You'll practise real tools for the moments anxiety hits hardest. Deep breathing, grounding techniques, and muscle relaxation give you fast ways to calm a racing heart. You'll rehearse these skills in session until they become automatic.
You'll learn to spot the anxious thoughts that spiral, like "what if I embarrass myself?" Using CBT for anxiety, we help you challenge these thoughts and replace them with balanced ones. This cuts the fear off at its source instead of managing symptoms alone.
Therapy extends beyond the session. We build mindfulness meditation, movement, and better sleep habits into your routine.
How Anxiety Therapy Helps You Find Peace
We draw from four evidence-based approaches, matched to your specific anxiety. Your assessment identifies your triggers and patterns first. From there, we build a plan around the methods below.
What It Is: CBT targets the link between your thoughts, feelings and actions. We start by naming automatic thoughts, like "something bad is about to happen." We test those thoughts against real evidence. Then we build small experiments, like starting a conversation you'd normally avoid. Each experiment proves a new outcome is possible.
Key Benefits:
Breaks the anxiety cycle. Proof against a fearful prediction turns a racing heart into a cue to breathe.
Builds real confidence. Every small win, like speaking up in a meeting, proves you can face what scares you.
What It Is: Mindfulness-based therapy trains your attention to stay in the present moment. We use guided breathing, body scans, and simple stretches instead of forceful relaxation. You learn to notice anxious thoughts without reacting to them right away. That distance brings the first real relief.
Key Benefits:
Lowers your baseline stress. Regular practice trains your nervous system to settle faster after a stressful moment. You spend less time on high alert.
Builds a pause between trigger and reaction. Noticing a racing thought, without acting on it, gives you room to choose your next move. Anxiety no longer makes that choice for you.
What It Is: Acceptance and commitment therapy shifts the goal from eliminating anxiety to living fully alongside it. You practise defusion, a skill for creating distance from anxious thoughts instead of fighting them. From there, we focus on your values, like connection or growth. We build actions that move you toward them, even when anxiety shows up.
Key Benefits:
Reduces the fight with your own mind. Trying to force anxious thoughts away makes them louder. Defusion teaches you to notice a thought and let it pass, without a struggle.
Reconnects you with what matters. Anxiety shrinks your world through avoidance. Naming your real values, like family or career growth, gives you a reason to act. You move forward despite the fear, not after it disappears.
What It Is: Dialectical behaviour therapy was built for intense emotional swings, and its skills adapt well to anxiety. We draw from four skill sets: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Together, they give you a toolkit for the moments anxiety spikes fast and hard.
Key Benefits:
Gives you a plan for crisis moments. Distress tolerance skills help you ride out a panic attack without making it worse. They work when the situation itself can't change right away.
Steadies your emotional swings. Emotion regulation skills help you name what you're feeling and understand why. You catch anxiety early, before it spirals.
Online Anxiety Therapy Across Alberta
We Know Getting Here Is Hard
Getting to an appointment can be its own source of anxiety. A waiting room, a drive across town, or working up the nerve to go, all count. That's exactly why we brought therapy to you.
Matched With the Right Therapist
We match you with an anxiety therapist who is registered to provide virtual care in Alberta and whose approach fits your needs.
Therapy That Comes to You
We built our virtual therapy option so getting help doesn't add to what you're already carrying. Through secure online therapy, we now support clients across Alberta.
The Same Care, Anywhere
You get the same evidence-based care, including CBT and mindfulness, wherever in Alberta feels safest. You can start online and move to in-person sessions later.
Meet Your Calgary Anxiety Therapists
Our anxiety team includes registered provisional psychologists and a registered clinical social worker. We match you by concern, language and availability. Read each therapist's training below before you book.
Baldwin Asala
Registered Provisional Psychologist
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Lara Palset
Registered Provisional Psychologist
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Marggie Marks
Registered Clinical Social Worker, virtual only
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Zarrin Tasneem
Clinical Director, Registered Provisional Psychologist
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Ashley Sabados
Registered Psychologist
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Anxiety Counselling Options
Sessions fit around your life, in person in Calgary or online across Alberta.
60-minute sessions $240, 90-minute sessions $360
We direct bill more than 30 insurance providers. Coverage depends on your plan and your therapist's designation, so check with your insurer before booking.
In-person sessions available in Calgary
Virtual sessions available across Alberta
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FAQ
We treat a wide range of anxiety concerns. These include generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic, phobias and health anxiety. PTSD-related anxiety is also part of our practice. Our Calgary therapists match their approach to your specific type. A panic attack and social anxiety in a crowd call for different techniques.
Yes. Long-standing anxiety responds well to consistent therapy, even after ten or more years. Clients learn new coping skills and notice small changes first, like better sleep. These early shifts show up within the first few sessions. Bigger shifts build from there as therapy continues.
No, medication isn't required. Clients see strong results from therapy alone, especially with CBT and mindfulness. Therapy works alongside your medication by building coping skills, if you're already taking it. We build your plan around therapy and lifestyle changes instead, if you'd rather avoid medication entirely. Any medication decision stays between you and your physician.
It depends on what you're working on. For a specific anxiety issue, we plan for 8 to 12 weekly sessions. Longer-standing or complex anxiety takes several months of work. Sessions start weekly, then taper to biweekly as you improve. You and your therapist review progress together throughout.
We tailor your plan to your exact fear. CBT helps you test the predictions behind it, like "the plane won't land safely." Coping skills and mindfulness help your body settle when the fear shows up. For public speaking, we rehearse in session and teach performance anxiety skills.
Yes. We treat anxiety in teens and children, covering school stress, social pressure, and test anxiety. Our team includes clinicians experienced in youth mental health. Sessions for younger clients use games, art, or role-play, with family involved. This helps anxiety get addressed early, in a space that feels safe.
Feeling nervous is normal. Your first session is about listening. Your therapist asks about your experience, your triggers, and how anxiety affects your day. Nothing scary happens in session one. By the end, you'll understand your anxiety better and leave with a starting plan. That plan names your approach, such as CBT for social anxiety or mindfulness practice. You stay in control of the pace throughout.
Family history raises your risk, but your environment, habits and life experiences matter too. Anxiety comes from several factors working together. Therapy works on the parts you can change, like thought patterns and coping habits.
Yes, anxiety is a common cause of insomnia. A racing mind at bedtime, or waking up with worry, are both common anxiety symptoms. Treating the anxiety itself helps you sleep better. Ongoing insomnia is still worth mentioning to your doctor, in case another cause is involved.
Social anxiety disorder is a recognized mental health condition. It affects how a person functions day to day. Whether it legally qualifies as a disability is an administrative question, not a clinical one. Your therapist can document how anxiety affects your life, for a claim or accommodation request. For eligibility itself, a lawyer or benefits administrator is the right resource.
Yes, there's a well-documented link between anxiety and gut health, known as the gut-brain connection. Anxiety triggers real digestive symptoms, like an upset stomach or nausea. Gut discomfort can also feed back into anxious feelings, and the cycle continues both ways. Addressing anxiety through therapy is one piece of managing this cycle. Your doctor can guide you on the physical symptoms themselves.
Yes, it's common for anxiety to rise in the days before your period. Hormonal shifts across the menstrual cycle are linked to mood changes. Increased anxiety is one of the most common shifts. That pattern is worth discussing with your doctor, if it disrupts your daily life. Therapy helps you manage the anxiety that comes with it.
A 60-minute session costs $240, and a 90-minute session costs $360.
Yes. We direct bill more than 30 insurance providers. Coverage depends on your plan and your therapist's designation, so check with your insurer before booking.
We need at least one business day's notice to cancel or change an appointment. You can cancel in Jane, our booking app, call the clinic, or email info@cpcclinics.ca. Late cancellations and missed appointments are charged the full session fee to the card on file. If you can't come in person, switch to an online or phone session with notice. You get an email reminder 48 hours ahead and a text 24 hours ahead. For family or medical emergencies or bereavement, contact us to talk it through.
Yes. If the fit is not right, tell us and we will change it. Nobody is expected to stay with a therapist who does not suit them.
Yes. Weekdays run 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays run 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sundays 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Evening and weekend times vary by therapist, so booking early helps.
English, Spanish, Bengali, Hindi and Urdu. Mention your preferred language when you contact our intake coordinator.
The 5 Ways Anxiety Shows Up
What is anxiety? It's your body's alarm system activating even when there's no real danger. Anxiety and fear are not the same thing. Fear responds to a real, immediate threat. Anxiety is worry about something that hasn't happened yet, or might never happen. Genetics play a role too. You're more likely to experience anxiety yourself, if it runs in your family. Your environment and habits matter just as much. Understanding your specific type of anxiety is the first step toward treating it well.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Persistent worry about everyday things, like work, health, or finances, most days for months.
Social Anxiety Disorder
Intense fear of judgment in social settings, like eating in public or speaking in a meeting. The fear is strong enough that people avoid these situations entirely. At CPC Clinics, we treat social anxiety with CBT, testing the fears behind these situations.
Panic Disorder
Sudden, intense episodes of fear, with a racing heart or shortness of breath. Panic disorder also includes ongoing worry about when the next episode will hit.
Health Anxiety
Persistent worry about having a serious illness, even after a doctor rules it out. Health anxiety shows up as checking symptoms or seeking constant reassurance.
Separation Anxiety in Adults
Intense distress when apart from a specific person, like a partner or child. Separation anxiety in adults goes well beyond what's normal for the relationship.
Benefits of Anxiety Counselling
Calmer Day-to-Day Life
Worry stops running the show. You learn to catch anxious spirals early and settle your mind before they take over.
Fewer Physical Symptoms
Anxiety lives in your body as much as your mind. Physical symptoms of anxiety include a racing heart, shortness of breath, nausea, or stomach issues. Therapy addresses the anxiety driving these symptoms, though a doctor should rule out other causes first.
Stronger Relationships
Anxiety makes you snap at the people you love, or pull away entirely. As you build coping skills, you show up with more patience for the people around you.
Better Focus at Work or School
Racing thoughts make it hard to concentrate on anything else. Grounding techniques and cognitive restructuring free up that mental space. You get that focus back for work, school, or the rest of your day.
Skills That Outlast Therapy
The coping strategies you build here don't expire when sessions end. CBT and mindfulness become tools you carry into every future stressful moment.
A Plan That's Actually Yours
No two people experience anxiety the same way, so your plan shouldn't look like anyone else's. Your therapist builds treatment around your specific triggers, fears, and goals, not a one-size-fits-all script.
What Sets Our Anxiety Therapists Apart?
Our anxiety therapists train in more than one method. That means your therapist can pull from CBT, ACT, DBT skills, or mindfulness. The method fits your specific anxiety, instead of the same technique applied to every client. For depression that hasn't improved with other treatment, we also offer rTMS. Your clinician can tell you whether it fits. You start with a free 20-minute consultation. You know your fit before committing to a full plan.
Ready to Feel
Like Yourself Again?
A free consultation is a conversation, not a commitment. We'll talk through what's going on, answer your questions honestly, and help you understand your options before you decide anything. You'll leave knowing what treatment looks like for you, and whether we're the right fit.
Contact
If you are in crisis, please call 811 or go to your nearest emergency department.
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