Compassionate, practical mental health support designed to fit your life.
Christina Bassett is a Calgary-based Registered Psychologist providing compassionate virtual therapy to adults across Alberta through Present Path Psychology. Therapy can offer a supportive space to better understand life’s challenges, build new coping strategies, and move toward meaningful and lasting change. Whether you are experiencing stress, anxiety, burnout, sleep difficulties, low mood, trauma-related concerns, chronic pain, grief, or major life transitions, support is tailored to meet you where you are.
The approach at Present Path Psychology is collaborative, practical, and grounded in evidence-based care. Christina draws from behaviour and learning principles, while focusing on creating a supportive and non-judgmental space where you feel heard, understood, and empowered. Sessions are designed to fit into everyday life through secure virtual appointments, making support more accessible and flexible.
At its core, therapy is about helping individuals better understand themselves, navigate challenges with greater confidence, and move toward the life they want to build—without judgment and at a pace that feels manageable and meaningful.
Ways that Therapy can Help
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Life can sometimes feel overwhelming, leaving you emotionally exhausted, mentally drained, or disconnected from the things that matter most. Therapy can help you better understand the sources of stress, develop healthier coping strategies, set boundaries, and reconnect with balance and wellbeing.
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Anxiety can show up as constant worry, racing thoughts, panic, difficulty relaxing, or always feeling “on edge.” Therapy can help you better understand patterns of anxiety, learn practical tools to manage overwhelming thoughts and emotions, and build confidence in navigating uncertainty and daily stressors.
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Difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking feeling unrested can have a significant impact on mood, focus, energy, and overall wellbeing. Therapy can support you in identifying factors contributing to sleep difficulties, adjust your sleep pressure, building healthier routines, managing stress, and improving sleep habits in a realistic and sustainable way.
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Major life changes, uncertainty, or periods of feeling “stuck” can bring up stress, self-doubt, grief, or a sense of disconnection. Therapy can provide space to process change, explore values and goals, and build clarity and confidence in moving forward.
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Living with chronic pain or ongoing health concerns can affect emotional wellbeing, relationships, sleep, work, and daily functioning. Therapy can help support coping, emotional adjustment, stress management, and finding ways to improve quality of life while navigating the challenges of chronic conditions.
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Past experiences, loss, or difficult life events can continue to impact emotions, relationships, self-esteem, and daily life long after they occur. Therapy offers a supportive and non-judgmental space to process these experiences, develop coping tools, and move toward healing at a pace that feels safe and manageable.
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Low mood can affect motivation, energy, concentration, relationships, and the ability to enjoy everyday life. You may feel emotionally exhausted, disconnected, hopeless, or unlike yourself. Therapy can provide support in understanding these experiences, building coping strategies, reconnecting with meaningful activities and relationships, and working toward improved emotional wellbeing over time.
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can affect functioning across the lifespan, but its impact may change over time. At some points, symptoms may feel manageable. During periods of stress, increased responsibility, or major life changes, they can become much more disruptive.
ADHD can make it harder to:
start tasks
stay focused
organize and plan
manage time
follow through
regulate strong emotions
keep up with work, home, and daily responsibilities
Over time, these struggles can also affect how you see yourself. Repeated difficulties may contribute to shame, self-criticism, discouragement, chronic stress, anxiety, depression, or burnout.
How counselling can help
Counselling can help you understand how ADHD shows up in your life and identify what is actually getting in the way.
Therapy may include:
practical strategies for planning, organization, and follow-through
support with procrastination and task initiation
strategies for emotional regulation and impulse control
problem-solving around routines and your environment
support with motivation and goal-setting
psychoeducation about ADHD
strategies for building more sustainable habits and systems
Counselling can also help with the emotional impact of living with ADHD, including low self-esteem, shame, hopelessness, anxiety, depression, and work or relationship stress.
Therapy that works with your ADHD
ADHD informed counselling should not require you to become perfectly organized in order to benefit from therapy. Sessions can be adapted to make therapy easier to use in everyday life. This may include:
more structure during sessions
clear and manageable goals
written reminders or summaries
support with remembering and applying what was discussed
breaking larger changes into smaller steps
referrals to other supports when helpful
Book a free Consultation
Click the link below to book a complimentary 20-minute consultation.
An important part of therapy is finding a provider who feels like the right fit for your needs and goals. This consultation is an opportunity to ask questions, discuss what you are looking for in therapy, and explore whether working together feels comfortable and supportive for you.
If you have additional questions before booking, please complete the contact form below and you will be contacted as soon as possible.