Therapy for People offers anxiety therapy and counselling in Calgary, in person at Langley House in Bankview and online. You can work with Anne Klein, Canadian Certified Counsellor, who specializes in supporting people through anxiety, depression and work stress, or with Divya Sharma, Registered Social Worker. Your first step is a free meet and greet.

The work includes managing anxious symptoms day to day. Where it is clinically appropriate, it also explores the emotional and relational patterns that contribute to anxiety.

Who you will work with

Anne Klein, B.Comm, M.A., CCC

Psychotherapist and counsellor, founder of Therapy for People

Anne works with people navigating anxiety, low mood, work stress, and the feeling that their own mind won’t give them a break. Her approach goes beyond managing symptoms to explore the deeper patterns that can keep you feeling stuck, including how early experiences shape the way you see yourself, relate to others, and move through the world.

Using attachment-focused therapy, Family Constellations, Transactional Analysis, Re-decision Therapy, and Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT), Anne helps you make sense of where these patterns come from and begin to create new ways of relating to yourself and your life.

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Divya Sharma, BSc, BSW, MSW, RSW

Registered Social Worker

Divya works with people who feel overwhelmed by their emotions, stuck in unhelpful patterns, or unsure how to navigate relationships. Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, struggling to set boundaries, working through conflict, or trying to make sense of what you’re feeling, Divya offers a calm, supportive space to figure things out without judgment.

Her approach is collaborative and tailored to you. Drawing on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), she helps you understand your patterns, work with difficult emotions, and build practical tools for everyday life. Her trauma-informed and culturally sensitive approach means your experiences, identity, and goals are part of the conversation.

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What anxiety can look like

Anxiety does not always look like panic. Often it is quieter, and easier to mistake for being busy or responsible. People come to anxiety counselling with:

• Overthinking every interaction, or worrying about what a text really meant.
• Chronic worry, and a mind that will not switch off, especially at night.
• Trying to predict, prevent and control what might happen next.
• People-pleasing: watching the moods of the people around you, and feeling responsible for how they feel.
• Avoiding conflict, or saying "it's fine" when it isn't.
• Anxiety related to relationships: finding it hard to trust, to depend on someone, or to ask for what you need.
• Social anxiety, and worry about how you come across to other people.
• Staying on alert, as if danger is around every corner, with a racing heart or a sense of unease that lives in your belly.
• Worry about the world and the climate, and a kind of existential angst.

For some people, anxiety grows out of a long stretch of stress at work, as Anne describes in Weathering the Storm. For others it goes back much further.

Managing symptoms, and the patterns underneath

Some of the work is practical: ways through an anxious moment, and ways to test anxious thoughts against what is really happening. Where it is clinically appropriate, the work also goes underneath.

Sometimes anxiety is the top layer. In Transactional Analysis, this is called a racket feeling: a familiar feeling that can cover deeper, more vulnerable ones. Underneath anxiety there may be grief, shame, rage, loneliness, helplessness or despair.

As Anne writes, "Sometimes these symptoms are attempted solutions." They are ways a person learned to manage something they did not yet have the resources or support to manage directly.

Read more in What Inside Out 2 Gets Right About Anxiety, and in her post on climate anxiety, where she asks how much of our anxiety includes the hidden grief of climate change.

Anxiety, people-pleasing and relationships

Children adapt to whatever environment they are given. A child who had to watch the moods of the adults around them (Is Mom okay? Is Dad angry?) can grow into an adult who is anxious, conflict-avoidant or always focused on keeping everyone else happy. The strategy that once helped the child cope can become a problem for the adult.

For some people, it does not feel safe to be close to others, or to depend on them. That anxiety can show up with a partner, with friends and family, or at work.

Therapy can be a place to explore these patterns, with support, at a pace that feels manageable. Read more about relationship counselling and attachment trauma therapy.

If reading this stirs something up, be gentle with yourself. Take a break, connect with someone you trust, or do something that helps you feel grounded and safe in the present moment.

How Anne works with anxiety

Anne works with the roots of anxious patterns, gently, at a pace that feels manageable. Work stress is one of her specialties, along with anxiety and depression.

Transactional Analysis helps you notice the racket feelings, script decisions and inner voices that keep anxiety running. In redecision therapy, you revisit the early scenes where those decisions were made, with your adult awareness, and make new, life-affirming decisions.

Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) is a gentle, body-based energy psychology approach. You find a sentence that describes what you want to work on, place one hand on the energy centre where you feel it most, and move your other hand through the remaining centres while you breathe and notice what comes up. One sentence Anne worked with herself, during the pandemic, was "All the fear I feel about COVID-19."

Anne's work is attachment-focused. Your therapist offers a safe, steady relationship where you can learn to regulate, and experience what it feels like to have someone emotionally available to you.

How Divya works with anxiety

Divya offers individual counselling with an integrative approach, tailored to your goals. CBT looks at the anxious thoughts that arrive fast and feel like facts, and helps you test them against what is really happening. Exposure-based work means approaching feared situations gradually, at a pace you agree on together.

ACT and mindfulness offer a different angle: making room for anxious feelings while you keep moving toward what matters. DBT skills help when anxiety spikes and you need a way through the moment. Emotion-Focused Therapy looks at the feelings underneath.

Divya has more than 11 years of experience, including supporting clients through relationship challenges. Her work is trauma-informed and guided by a culturally sensitive, inclusive lens.

Your first step

Book a free meet and greet with Anne or Divya: a conversation to see if what you want and what we do are aligned. Sessions are online and in person. From November 1, 2026, in-person sessions are at Langley House, 1909 17th Ave SW in Bankview, Calgary, with free parking.

A helpful place to begin is about 10 sessions, weekly for the first four weeks. After that, how long you come is always your choice.

Common questions

How much does anxiety counselling cost in Calgary?

Sessions with Anne are $235 for 60 minutes, $290 for 75 minutes, $345 for 90 minutes and $460 for two hours. Sessions with Divya are $220 for 60 minutes, $275 for 75 minutes and $330 for 90 minutes.

The meet and greet is free. See the full list on Fees and Insurance.

Does insurance cover anxiety counselling?

We direct bill Sun Life and Telus Health. Divya is a Registered Social Worker, and many workplace benefit plans cover RSW services. Coverage for counselling with Anne varies by plan.

Check your own plan for details before your first session.

Do you offer therapy for overthinking and people-pleasing?

Yes. Therapy for People offers individual therapy for anxiety, people-pleasing, codependency and relationship challenges, and you can bring overthinking and chronic worry too. Where it is clinically appropriate, counselling explores the emotional and relational patterns that contribute to them.

How do I choose an anxiety therapist in Calgary?

The most important factor is the relationship: choose someone who feels trustworthy, grounded and easy to talk to. Anne Klein, B.Comm, M.A. (Counselling Psychology), CCC, specializes in supporting people through anxiety, depression and work stress. Divya Sharma, BSc, BSW, MSW, RSW, is a Registered Social Worker with more than 11 years of experience in mental health and clinical practice.

A free meet and greet is a good way to notice how you feel with each of them.

Is anxiety counselling available online or in person?

Both. Sessions are offered online and in person. From November 1, 2026, in-person sessions are at Langley House, 1909 17th Ave SW in Bankview, Calgary, with free parking.

How many sessions will I need?

It depends on what you are working on. A helpful place to begin is about 10 sessions, weekly for the first four weeks. The length of therapy is always your choice.