WORK WITH A MALE THERAPIST IN CALGARY

Men’s therapy with me is individual somatic and relational therapy focused on the concerns, pressures, relationships, and experiences that are showing up in your life.

Men often come to me because of anger, anxiety, depression, ADHD, addiction, relationship difficulties, sexual concerns, burnout, or overwhelm.

We work with what is happening in the body, mind, and nervous system while also understanding how earlier experiences may have shaped these reactions.

The goal isn’t to teach you how to become a different kind of man. It’s to help you develop more flexibility and capacity to stay present, make choices, relate more directly, and inhabit more of who you already are.

I specialize in working with men around trauma, anger, anxiety, depression, ADHD, addiction and compulsive behaviours, toxic shame, relationships, sexuality, burnout, and overwhelm.

These concerns rarely exist in isolation. A man may be struggling with anger and ADHD, while also feeling inadequate in his relationship, disconnected sexually, overwhelmed at work, and using something compulsively to manage what he is feeling.

I’m interested in how these struggles interact rather than treating each one as a separate symptom or problem to be fixed.

Yes. My approach is somatic and relational.

Alongside conversation, we may pay attention to sensation, emotion, breath, posture, movement, impulse, thought, memory, and what is happening between us in the moment.

Somatic therapy is not about ignoring the story or forcing emotional release. It gives us another way to notice and work with responses that may continue to happen automatically even when you already understand them intellectually.

Talking and insight can be extremely valuable. Many of the men I work with already understand quite a lot about themselves.

The difficulty is that understanding something does not always change what happens when you’re angry, ashamed, sexually exposed, under pressure, afraid of disappointing someone, or close to shutting down.

My work includes insight, but we also work with those reactions in the body, nervous system, and mind as they show up so you can develop more capacity and choice to respond differently when it matters.

No.

You do not need to tell every detail of your history, relive traumatic experiences, or force yourself into emotional intensity for the work to be useful.

When there is trauma, which there usually is, it's showing up in real time in the present moment. Trauma is not the event that happened in the past.

We can work carefully with what is showing up in the present and make connections to the past when those connections are relevant. The pace is collaborative.

No. I chose a different professional path intentionally.

My training has focused on somatic trauma therapy, attachment and relational work, Internal Family Systems, experiential approaches, psychedelic plant medicine, and traditional yogic systems rather than following a conventional psychology or psychiatry route.

Psychologists and psychiatrists work within regulated professions with defined scopes, standards, and responsibilities. Those structures serve an important purpose. I wanted to build my work around a broader, highly experiential way of working, and to pursue specialized training that isn’t organized primarily around diagnosis, assessment, or conventional clinical models.

That has allowed me to develop an approach that draws from several disciplines and works directly with trauma, attachment, emotion, sensation, movement, impulse, relationship, meaning, and lived experience.

That doesn’t make my approach right for everyone. A psychologist or psychiatrist may be the better fit when formal assessment, diagnosis, medication, or services requiring a regulated professional are needed.

For the kind of work I do, I believe specialized training, depth of experience, relational skill, and fit matter more than the title on the door.

Yes.

I offer in-person men’s therapy and counselling at The AUM Institute’s private studio in Southwest Calgary. Sessions are also available online by Zoom.

If you’re unsure whether my approach is right for you, the first step is a free 45-minute online consultation. We can talk about what is happening, what you’re looking for, and whether working together makes sense.