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We’ve changed our name — but not who we are.

Welcome to Canopy Cove Counselling (formerly Williamson & Associates), offering in-person and online therapy serving clients across Alberta. Compassionate, evidence-based care for trauma, anxiety, relationships & more.

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IN PERSON & ONLINE SESSIONS

DAYTIME & EVENING APPOINTMENTS

You’ve tried to push through. You’ve read the books, stayed busy, done your best—but you still feel stuck.

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Whether you’re navigating anxiety, past trauma, relationship strain, or parenting challenges, you’re not alone—and you don’t have to figure it all out by yourself.

At Canopy Cove Counselling, we help individuals, couples, and families reconnect with themselves and each other. Our team of experienced therapists offers a wide range of approaches—from EMDR to somatic therapy to couples counselling—so we can meet you with the right support, right where you are.

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A place to land, untangle, and begin again.

Helping you return to steady ground — in yourself and your relationships.
Online and in-person sessions available, get started here.

You don’t have to do it all on your own.
When you’re ready, we’re here to help.

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When you’re in pain, it’s hard to see a way through. The same thoughts, arguments, or cycles keep showing up—leaving you feeling stuck, disconnected, and exhausted. But it doesn’t have to stay this way.

At Canopy Cove Counselling, we help you get to the root of what’s keeping you overwhelmed—so you can experience real, lasting change. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, or the weight of trauma, we’re here to walk alongside you.

Every day, our experienced and compassionate team supports clients across Alberta—individuals, couples, and families—to feel more grounded, more connected, and more like themselves again. Using a collaborative, trauma-focused approach, we help you shift out of survival mode and into a life with more joy, self-acceptance, and peace.

Care that feels like coming home.

Whether you're a busy mom who’s lost herself in caregiving, a dad carrying the weight of providing, a couple struggling to communicate, or a family seeking more harmony —we’re here to help you heal together.

INDIVIDUAL THERAPY

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You've tried all the things to feel better - and nothing has helped.

Maybe you…

  • feel stuck and defeated

  • are struggling with overwhelm and unresolved issues from your past

  • feel like you don’t even know yourself some days

  • feel exhausted, like you are treading water

  • long to feel freedom from fear, joy, close to others and to love yourself again

From the first consultation to ongoing therapy sessions, we are deeply invested in your well-being. Our collaborative care model ensures you feel supported, rather than navigating your challenges alone. Therapy with us feels grounding, transformative, and, ultimately, like a return to your true self.

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COUPLES THERAPY

Committing to your partner, you dreamt of a beautiful life together.

You miss the days when you used to laugh and talk easily together.

Now your conversations are tense and you fight more than you’d like. Most days you feel more like roommates who don’t like each other. You feel lonely and long to feel close, heard, accepted and connected again.

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FAMILY THERAPY

Becoming a parent, you pictured happy and fun times together.

Your children are struggling in school, sports, extracurricular activities and peer relationships.

You want to understand and be there for them. You long to see your kids happy and for your family to get along - to come home to peace, instead of fighting.

Therapy that gets to the root,
so you can move forward.

We believe therapy should do more than help you cope—it should help you grow.

Our collaborative team is dedicated to helping individuals, couples, and families heal from trauma, strengthen their relationships, and create lasting emotional resilience and secure bonds. We challenge the narrative that therapy is only for crisis moments, positioning it instead as a proactive tool for growth, connection, and healing generational patterns.

We take a holistic, collaborative and experiential approach to therapy using a wide range of evidence-based modalities like emotionally focused therapy (EFT), somatic experiencing, EMDR, and trauma-focused systemic therapy, tailoring your care to your specific needs.

AREAS WE SPECIALIZE IN:

  • Adult Counselling

  • Couples Counselling

  • Family Therapy

  • Child & Adolescent Counselling

  • First Responders and Military

  • Trauma Therapy

  • PTSD Treatment

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Our Relationship, Anxiety and Trauma Therapists

Our therapists are trauma, attachment and relationship experts working with couples, families, kids and adults.

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Nadia Katasonova, MSW, RSW

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Desiree Morris, MSW, RSW

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Ardelle Layden, MSW, RSW

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Kimberly Williamson MSW, RSW

Whole-family care through all of life’s seasons.

We work with individuals, couples, and families of all ages — supporting every member of your system through transitions like:

  • Pregnancy, infertility, birth, parenting, and postpartum

  • Infertility and perinatal loss

  • Marriage, separation, and blended families

  • Mid-life changes, aging, and retirement

  • Grief and loss

  • Trauma from motor vehicle accidents, injuries, medical experiences, natural disasters, neglect, or abuse

  • Relationship and attachment injuries like betrayal, affairs and divorce

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At Canopy Cove Counselling, we work with individuals, couples, and families across Alberta—online or in person at our Olds office. Our clients often feel emotionally stretched thin, disconnected from themselves or loved ones, or uncertain how to break free from long-standing patterns.

Some of the people we work with include:

Parents feeling burnt-out and unsure of how to support their children.

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Couples who feel more like roommates than partners.

Adults working to process past trauma or reclaim a lost sense of self.

Professionals juggling too much and feeling like they’re failing at everything.

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Families navigating conflict, change, or a lack of peace at home.

Support for your whole system — not just your symptoms.

We work with individuals, couples, and families to untangle the deeper patterns behind their stress, disconnection, and overwhelm — so healing can happen at the root, not just the surface.

How Our Counselling Works

Working with Canopy Cove Counselling feels like stepping into a space where you are truly seen, heard, and understood.

Individual Therapy

From the first consultation to ongoing therapy sessions, we are deeply invested in your well-being. Our collaborative care model ensures you feel supported, rather than navigating your challenges alone. Therapy with us feels grounding, transformative, and, ultimately, like a return to one’s true self.

For couples, working with us feels like rediscovering the connection that once felt lost. It’s about learning to communicate in a way that fosters understanding rather than conflict, creating a foundation of trust, emotional safety, and intimacy. Couples experience a renewed sense of partnership, where they feel seen and valued by their partner, no longer stuck in cycles of miscommunication or loneliness.

Couples Counselling

For families, therapy is a place where relationships are strengthened and where each member feels heard and respected. Parents gain confidence in their roles, learning how to support their children’s emotional well-being while also finding balance for themselves. Children and teens feel more secure in their family relationships, learning how to express their emotions in a healthy way. Over time, families experience a shift from tension and disconnect to a home environment filled with mutual respect, warmth, and togetherness.

Family Therapy

We do therapy differently.

Compassionate Care

We prioritize creating a warm, validating, and non-judgmental space where you feel seen and supported in your healing journey.

Integrative Approach

We meet you where you are, with therapy that adapts to your needs rather than fitting into a rigid model. Through a combination of emotionally focused therapy, somatic experiencing, systemic and trauma therapies including EMDR, ART, etc.—we provide a holistic, integrative and deeply personalized approach to mental health.

If you’ve tried therapy before, our approach may feel different  — any more comprehensive. At Canopy Cove Counselling, our team works together to support the whole family system, both individually and together. We don’t just treat what’s visible on the surface, we help you get to the root.

Rooted in Connection

Our approach focuses on strengthening relationships, whether within your family, partnership, or your connection to yourself.

Personalized + Intentional

We have smaller caseloads to provide you with deeper, more intentional, consistent, and effective care. We offer weekly and intensive sessions to help you meet your goals with momentum.

Focused on lasting change

We help you feel lighter, at ease, and at home in your body and relationships. We want parents say their home feels peaceful, couples to feel truly heard, and individuals to reconnect with their sense of self.

Depth over quick fixes

We are not just about symptom relief but deep, lasting change. We focus on healing trauma and attachment wounds at the root. Our goal is to provide you with an experiential, visceral way of understanding yourself, your partner, and family members to create real changes by addressing the core of your challenges and guiding you toward lasting transformation.

Who you work with matters. Let’s find the right match.

A good connection with a counsellor is the biggest predictor of therapy success. 

Whether you’re seeking support for yourself, your child, or your relationship — we’ll help you get matched with the right therapist.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Therapy involves developing a safe environment and trusting relationship with a therapist so you can work together with the overall aim of improving your mental health and well-being. Sessions can be individual, couples, families, or groups. Together you will work with your therapist to make positive changes in your mood, thinking, relationships, and behaviours.

  • The length of treatment varies from one person to another and will depend on your goals and history. In your first sessions, you and your therapist will begin these discussions and have an idea of what the treatment length may be. Research suggests that the majority of individuals will remain in therapy for approximately 12-20 sessions to achieve their goals. Some may need less sessions, especially if the therapy is for a specific shorter-term problem while others want more sessions if they have more than one condition or are looking to understand and make changes to life-long patterns.

  • In couple therapy, the client is the relationship between two partners. This relationship has become “stuck” in a negative pattern that, after a while, destroys trust and affection. In effective couple therapy, the therapist provides a safe place – an opportunity to talk to your partner in new ways that can de-escalate conflict and help both partners to reconnect. The couple therapist is not interested in assigning blame but in helping partners see the dance they are caught in and changing that dance. The therapist is a consultant to your relationship and can help you make sense of your relationship problems and the strong emotions that all distressed partners feel.

    We are trained in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy – an intervention that has demonstrated excellent outcomes in research studies and is accepted by the American Psychological Association as an empirically validated intervention of proven effectiveness. In the past 15 years, Couples Therapy has grown enormously and EFT has been part of that growth. We now understand many of the ways that relationships go awry and in EFT research studies we have mapped the steps in the pathway from distress to satisfaction.

    We know, for example, that emotional distance and a loss of responsiveness predicts divorce better than the number of fights a couple has. We know that “master” couples can reach for each other and soothe each other emotionally. We know that in EFT how engaged you become on the process is a better predictor of your satisfaction at the end of therapy than your initial level of relationship distress.

    A positive relationship is associated with better physical and mental health, the ability to deal with stress and a more positive sense of self. When a couple improves their relationship they create a vital resource that helps both of them face the difficulties of life with more resilience and confidence. A strong couple bond is also the basis of a strong and stable family life. We believe, and research supports this belief, that your love relationship is your greatest resource. Effective couples therapy helps you understand and care for this precious resource.

    EFT is used with many different kinds of couples and in diverse cultural contexts. Kimberly has helped both traditional and non-traditional couples including gay and lesbian partners.

  • In Family Therapy provides a safe haven where family members can clarify relationship problems and understand the patterns of communication that prevent a satisfying resolution.

    Family Therapy helps family members to talk to each other in new ways that help them to connect and care for each other. A positive outcome study on the EFT approach to improving family relationships is based on a well-researched perspective on parent-child relationships.

    With EFT family members create often more secure emotional bonds that help them deal effectively with family crises, transitions, and problems. Positive secure family connections help children develop a positive sense of self, psychological resilience, and coping skills.

    Family Therapy can help parents deal with anxiety and depression in their children and adolescents as well as the general problems that arise in family transitions.

  • Typically a first session includes both partners. One individual session for each partner is arranged following the initial session. All further sessions include both partners. Families are typically seen as a group for the first session and following sessions usually include various family pairings, including mother and child, the parents, the father, and child etc.

Get matched with a therapist

A good connection with a counsellor is the biggest predictor of therapy success. Get matched with the right counsellor for you. You can submit a request via our form and our office manager will reach out to match you and book a free consultation with this therapist.

Book a free consultation

If you already know the therapist you would like to connect with to see if they are a good fit, schedule a free consultation by booking directly with a counsellor below.

Note: Due to capacity issues, not all of our counsellors are able to offer free consultations.

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Uncertain about how to begin your search for the ideal therapist? Click below to book to fill out the form to be matched with Our office manager will reach out to schedule a free private 15 minute phone or video consultation with one of our amazing therapists specializing in mental health, couples counselling, family therapy, trauma therapy and PTSD treatment to see if they are the right fit for you.