Counselling for Stress
Work and money can affect how secure you feel, how you see yourself and how you relate to the people around you. Job uncertainty, professional conflict or financial pressure may occupy your thoughts long after the working day ends. You may feel caught between competing responsibilities or unsure how to make a difficult decision.
At Maria Schmid & Partners, we offer counselling in Calgary for the emotional and relationship effects of financial and professional concerns. Sessions can help you explore the pressures you are facing, understand your responses and consider practical ways to approach what comes next.
Your concerns may involve a change you have chosen or circumstances outside your control. We begin with what is happening in your life and the support you need to respond thoughtfully.
Book an appointment or call 403-801-4839 for help choosing a counsellor.
When counselling may help with work or money concerns
You may seek support during unemployment, a career transition, retirement or an ongoing workplace difficulty. Long hours, competing demands or a sense of mismatch between your work and your values may be affecting your well-being. Financial concerns can add worry, shame or tension within a relationship, even when partners share the same underlying goals.
Counselling can also provide space when your confidence has been affected by a professional setback or when responsibility for others makes it difficult to acknowledge your own needs. You can explore both the immediate pressures and the expectations that make those pressures particularly difficult to carry.
How we work with professional and financial stress
Your counsellor will help you distinguish the practical decisions in front of you from the emotions and beliefs attached to them. For example, a career decision may involve questions about identity, belonging or responsibility as well as income. Understanding these layers can make it easier to identify what matters most.
The work may focus on responding to uncertainty, communicating about money, setting boundaries or examining expectations about success. You can consider the choices available to you and how each fits your circumstances, while developing ways to manage the stress involved in making a decision.
Sessions focus on psychological well-being and relationships. Where technical financial, employment or legal questions arise, relevant professional advice can complement the counselling work. Your counsellor can help you prepare for those conversations and reflect on the emotional decisions they involve.
What to expect at your first appointment
The first conversation focuses on the concern that prompted you to seek support and its effect on your daily life. You might discuss work demands, a recent change, financial uncertainty or conversations that have become difficult at home. You can also describe the decisions that feel most urgent.
Together, you and your counsellor can identify an initial priority and consider what support would be useful. This may include managing immediate distress, clarifying a decision or addressing a pattern that has developed over time. You can discuss the approach and practical arrangements before deciding how to proceed.
Meet counsellors who specialize in Counselling for Stress
Maria Schmid
Registered Psychologist
Maria is a registered psychologist who works with clients facing workplace conflict, career changes or unemployment. She helps people explore how changes in work and income affect their identity, relationships and choices about what comes next.
Danielle Smith
Registered Psychologist
Dr. Smith is a registered psychologist with experience working with stress and conflict that affects relationships. Her systemic approach can help clients understand how pressures in one part of life carry into another, including the effect of work demands on life at home.
Tricia Thomas
Registered Psychologist
Tricia is a registered psychologist who works with clients navigating stress and changes in their lives. Her collaborative approach gives clients room to consider how a difficult decision or period of uncertainty is affecting their confidence and relationships.
Nicole Berggren
Registered Psychologist
Nicole is a registered psychologist who supports adults through life transitions, including the shift into parenthood. Her work with caregivers provides a perspective on competing responsibilities and how changes in work or daily routines can affect family well-being.
Jason Stein
Registered Social Worker
Jason is a registered social worker whose work addresses emotional distress and conflict that affects everyday functioning. His collaborative approach can help clients decide which pressures need attention and what they want to change in how they respond.
Sheri Sadowick
Counseling Therapist (AB), Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (BC)
Sheri is a counselling therapist who works with the relationship and parenting pressures associated with shift and rotation schedules. She helps adults think through how time away, solo caregiving and the return home affect their family routines and communication.