I work with people who are quietly carrying more than they let on, navigating burnout, identity, trauma, and the slow erosion of meaning that comes when life moves faster than they can feel it.

My approach is existential-humanistic at its core, drawing on Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, Narrative Therapy, ACT, and CBT. I don’t believe healing is about fixing what’s broken. I believe it’s about helping people understand themselves well enough to live with intention.

I know something about that struggle personally. I spent years wrestling with identity and the question of who I was becoming. What eventually anchored me was fatherhood, not as an answer, but as an invitation into meaning. That experience lives inside how I work.

I specialize in neurodivergence (ADHD and autism), trauma, executive burnout, and men’s mental health. I have a particular passion for working with men who’ve never found therapy that fits, and I also regularly work with women navigating similar terrain. I’m a Registered Psychotherapist (CCC) practicing in Calgary, working toward provisional psychologist status in Alberta.

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Your nervous system learned to protect you. The patterns that once kept you safe, the bracing, the shutting down, the staying busy so you don’t have to feel, make a lot of sense given what you’ve lived through. They’re just not always serving you anymore. I work with people who feel stuck, disconnected, or like they’re moving through life on autopilot. Together we slow things down enough to notice what’s actually happening, make sense of it, and start to shift what’s no longer working. My approach is collaborative and curious rather than clinica, I’m not here to hand you a worksheet, I’m here to help you find your way back to yourself. I hold a Master of Clinical Social Work with a specialization in Trauma-Informed Practice from the University of Calgary [confirm BSW institution if you want it included], and I’m a Registered Social Worker in Alberta. I draw on both talk-based and body-based approaches because lasting change tends to happen in both the mind and the body. You don’t need to have it figured out before you reach out. You just need to take the first step.

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David Reize, CCC, MPS, is a Calgary-based counselling therapist with eight-plus years of experience across private practice, holistic day-treatment, wilderness therapy, and Indigenous mental health. He works with adults navigating anxiety, depression, complex trauma, grief, addictions, and identity questions. His approach is integrative and trauma-informed — drawing on Internal Family Systems, Narrative Therapy, Coherence Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, and EMDR — and grounded in a nature-based, relational view of healing. Clients describe his work as warm, direct, and unhurried. David is a Canadian Certified Counsellor with the CCPA (#10003823) and a registered member of the Alberta Counselling Therapist Association (Reg #2434). He holds a Master of Psychotherapy and Spirituality from St. Stephen’s College at the University of Alberta. He sees clients in person in Calgary and virtually across Alberta.

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