Begin Your Journey Forward with Personalized Counselling & Therapy
At Intrinsic Therapy, we recognize that every individual has a unique story filled with experiences and challenges. Our commitment is to empower you on your personal journey towards improved mental health. Through tailored therapy sessions, we provide a safe and welcoming environment where you can explore your thoughts and feelings. Together, we will work on fostering growth, resilience, and emotional well-being, helping you navigate the everyday pressures of life with confidence and support. Let us accompany you as you take this important step towards a brighter future.
Individual Therapy: A Path to Personal Growth
At Intrinsic Therapy, we recognize that every individual's journey is unique. Our individual therapy sessions are designed to provide a safe and supportive environment where you can explore your feelings, overcome challenges, and unlock your full potential. Through tailored approaches, our experienced therapists work with you to cultivate self-awareness, resilience, and emotional health, ensuring that you have the tools to navigate life’s complexities. Join us as you embark on a transformative journey towards personal growth and well-being.
Individual Therapy
Newfound freedom and fulfillment await you at Intrinsic Therapy. Our comprehensive range of professional therapy and counselling services is thoughtfully tailored for adults facing various life challenges. With a team of experienced, empathic therapists, we provide valuable support for concerns such as anxiety, relationship dynamics, workplace stress, burnout, boundary setting, dating hurdles, identity exploration, self-esteem enhancement, people pleasing, chronic pain or illness, borderline personality disorder and associated symptoms, and trauma. You may be feeling a noticeable or significant struggle with or are experiencing curiosities about purpose, vision, and life transitions or circumstances such as stress-leave, breakup, infidelity and other lived experiences. Individual Therapy acts as a reliable entry point for general reflection and resourcing at any stage or season in life.
Life presents unique experiences that can profoundly impact emotional and psychological well-being. By centering on the individual’s unique experiences, we foster healing and promote positive outcomes. Understanding the effects of each individual’s distinctive story is a critical step towards recovery, enabling you to confront the past and cultivate resilience and coping strategies for a healthier future.
Our therapeutic approach transcends mere symptom management; it focuses on nurturing deeper personal growth and emotional health. Our customized therapy sessions offer a secure space for exploration and healing. At Intrinsic Therapy, we are committed to supporting your journey towards a more fulfilling and balanced life. With a focus on somatic, relational and trauma-informed support, Intrinsic Therapy is home to a versatile team of empathetic, open and invested practitioners who lean on diverse experience, knowledge and practices. Our therapists are experienced in Hakomi (Somatic Therapy), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Prolonged Exposure, Attachment and Solution Focused therapies, to name a few. We welcome all to find safe belonging, make real shifts and transform from within. With Intrinsic, you always get to choose what’s right for you.
Experience the benefits of individualized support by booking an appointment with one of our skilled therapists today. We offer Individual Therapy both in person at our two Calgary locations and virtually across Alberta.
Somatic Therapy
At Intrinsic Therapy, we offer somatic therapy in Calgary as a powerful and holistic approach to healing that honours the deep connection between the mind, body, and emotions. Rooted in mindfulness and nervous system awareness, somatic therapy helps individuals tune into their bodily sensations, uncovering the often-unspoken messages held within physical experiences. This body-based approach is particularly effective for those navigating trauma, anxiety, stress, or emotional overwhelm.
One of our skilled therapists, Cari, is trained in Hakomi therapy—a gentle, mindfulness-centred form of somatic psychotherapy that invites clients to slow down, notice their internal responses, and explore unconscious beliefs and patterns held in the body. Hakomi therapy supports healing not through force or analysis, but through curiosity, safety, and present-moment experience.
By working through the physical manifestations of trauma and stress, clients are supported in releasing stored emotional tension and cultivating greater resilience and self-understanding. Whether you’re seeking trauma counselling in Calgary, looking to feel more grounded in your body, or simply curious about a more embodied path to therapy, Cari offers a nurturing, client-centred environment where deep transformation becomes possible.
Book a somatic therapy session with Cari Ionson to begin your journey toward deeper personal growth and emotional well-being.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
At Intrinsic Therapy, we’re proud to offer Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy in Calgary, a gentle and transformative therapy approach that helps clients connect with their inner world. IFS is based on the understanding that we are made up of many “parts,” each with its own story, emotion, or role. You can imagine these parts like members of an internal family—some are protectors, others hold pain, and all of them want to be heard and understood. Through IFS, clients learn to approach these parts with compassion and curiosity, guided by their core Self.
For example, a client may come to therapy struggling with perfectionism, anxiety, or burnout. As they begin IFS counselling, they notice a part that constantly pushes them to succeed, another part that panics when they rest, and a deeper, vulnerable part carrying the fear of not being enough. Working with a trained IFS therapist, they start to build a relationship with each part, offering it care rather than criticism. Over time, these parts begin to heal and soften, and the client experiences more balance, self-confidence, and emotional freedom.
Whether you're seeking support for trauma, anxiety, people-pleasing, low self-worth, or emotional overwhelm, IFS therapy offers a meaningful path toward inner healing. If you're specifically looking for a Calgary-based psychologist, therapist, or counsellor who specializes in Internal Family Systems, we invite you to connect with Cristina Kalas at Intrinsic Therapy. We are here to help you feel more whole, grounded, and connected to yourself.