Therapy in Alberta and Ontario, Grounded in EFT and Attachment
Corey Skrypnek, MC (She/her)
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Owner of Via Counselling Services Ltd.
You deserve a space that feels safe and honest.
I believe that the ways we cope, react, and protect ourselves are not random and they are not personal problems. They are strategies shaped by experience to survive, to belong, to be loved, and to stay safe.
Many of us have been taught that strong emotions should be managed quietly so we can keep functioning. Over time, it becomes easy to treat feelings as problems to solve rather than experiences to understand.
I believe emotions are valuable information. They are data, not a road map, and they can guide us toward deeper awareness and healing when we learn to listen.
My work is grounded in the belief that healing happens in the therapeutic relationship.
My job is to bring safety through warmth, authenticity, and the unconditional acceptance that you are a worthy human being, right here right now, just breathing. When we feel seen without being judged, something begins to soften.
I believe you can create the beautiful life you want, and to support you in that goal, I will sit with you in hard places, and I will also help you notice where old narratives may no longer serve you.
Why I do this work
In my forties, while working toward my master's degree, I was diagnosed with ADHD. That experience changed how I understood myself and, more than anything else, it changed how I understand this work.
Receiving a late-diagnosis, especially in midlife, does something to a person. It reframes decades of experiences, quietly resolving questions you didn't know you had, while also bringing up new ones.
I spent years untangling my own tendencies toward people-pleasing and over-responsibility, and I have come to understand that this process will always be ongoing. That recognition is uncomfortable at times. It is also, unexpectedly, one of the greatest sources of freedom I have found.
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When my children stepped into their own lives as adults, I felt both grief and something that surprised me: an opening. I found myself asking a question that felt both overwhelming and exciting.
If I could choose any path, what would it be?
I chose this work because it reflects what matters most to me: creating a space where someone feels safe, respected, and truly heard. I know what it is to build a life around responsibility and around others. I understand how easy it is to lose sight of yourself in the process.
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These experiences don't mean I have everything figured out. They mean I approach this work with curiosity, humility, and a genuine commitment to continued self-awareness. I am not sitting across from you as someone who has arrived, but as someone who is on the journey and is willing to join you on yours.
If you are tired of holding everything together and you are ready to explore your patterns with honesty and compassion, I would be honoured to work with you.​
You do not have to navigate this alone.​
​What it’s like to work with me
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In our sessions, you can expect:
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Warmth and genuine empathy
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Honesty, including the kind that gently challenges old narratives
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Thoughtful reframing when the moment calls for it
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Emotional depth without pressure to go faster than feels right
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The occasional well-placed swear word when the moment demands it
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Space to be fully yourself, the good, the hard, and the complicated, because it is all just being human
I am less focused on quick symptom relief and more interested in helping you build deeper self-trust and steadiness
There is no homework here, but I will invite you to notice things, try things, and practice being present in your own life rather than living in the future or managing everyone else in it.
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How I work
My foundational approach is person-centred therapy, which means that you are the expert on your own experience and I follow your lead while offering my clinical intuition.
My role is not to direct you toward a predetermined destination, but to help you access the clarity, strength, and wisdom that are already yours.
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My work is grounded in emotionally-focused therapy (EFT), an approach that focuses on the emotional experiences and relational cycles that may be causing you distress. While the behaviours or thoughts on the surface are a facet of the evidence we work with, our emotions are the bridge between insight and growth and healing.
EFT helps you understand what your emotions are trying to tell you: your unmet needs and the attachment strategies you learned to connect early in life are still shaping how you show up in relationships today.
I also strive to ensure the work is trauma-informed, which means the pace is always yours. Nothing is pushed or rushed. Safety comes before everything else.
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Where it serves my clients, I also draw interventions from narrative therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and internal family systems (IFS).
I have completed Level I of the Gottman Method and the EFCT externship.
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I am a white, cisgender, heterosexual woman with the privileges that entails, including blind spots I have had to work to recognize and others I am still finding. I don't approach this work as someone who has resolved these questions. I approach it as someone committed to asking them, continually, and to letting what I learn change how I show up. Cultural humility, for me, is less a destination than a practice.
​​​​All backgrounds, beliefs, and identities are welcome in my practice. I strive to create a space that is affirming and safe for everyone, with the understanding that we will treat each other with mutual respect.
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I am committed to ongoing supervision, consultation, and professional development.
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Corey Skrypnek, MC (She/her)
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) · CRPO #20257
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Master of Counselling
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Emotionally-focused Therapy (EFT) · EFCT Externship
Gottman Method Level I
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Practicing under clinical supervision
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