Therapy for People offers therapy for stress and burnout in Calgary, in person and online. You can work with Anne Klein, Canadian Certified Counsellor, whose practice focuses on anxiety, depression and work stress, or Divya Sharma, Registered Social Worker. Your first step is a free meet and greet.

Sessions with Anne start at $235 for 60 minutes, and with Divya at $220 for 60 minutes. We direct bill Sun Life and Telus Health.

Who you will work with

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

Psychotherapist and counsellor, founder of Therapy for People

Anne specializes in anxiety, depression and work stress. She works with the roots of long-held patterns using Transactional Analysis, redecision therapy and Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT), and also sees therapists in their own therapy.

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Divya Sharma, BSc, BSW, MSW, RSW

Registered Social Worker

Divya offers individual therapy with an integrative approach: CBT, DBT, ACT, Emotion-Focused Therapy, mindfulness-based strategies and exposure-based work. Her work is trauma-informed and culturally sensitive.

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What stress and burnout can look like

Stress is constant for a lot of us, and so is the pressure to perform, succeed and hold it all together. Over time, that pressure can become overwhelming. People often come in with:

• A mind that will not switch off at midnight, still sorting through the emails you did not get to.
• Sleep that is short, broken or never quite restful.
• Getting sick more often than you used to.
• Drinking, smoking or shopping more to take the edge off.
• Putting your head down and working longer and harder to keep up.
• Anxiety or low mood that has crept in alongside the stress.
• Waking up one morning to find you have lost interest in things you used to love.
• Feeling short-tempered with the people at home, or pulling away from them.

Many men grow up believing they should handle pressure on their own and keep their feelings to themselves. If that sounds familiar, read about therapy for men.

Why stress stays in the body

Stress sets off the amygdala, the part of the brain that sends fight, flight or freeze responses through your body. When stress is chronic, the amygdala never gets the chance to settle back to baseline. You stay on alert, scanning for danger around every corner.

That is often when sleep suffers, you get sick more, and anxiety or low mood move in. Anne wrote about this in Weathering the Storm, about the job insecurity so many Calgarians lived through in the oil and gas downturn.

What can sit underneath

Sometimes stress is mostly about what is happening now: a hard job, a heavy workload, an uncertain future. Sometimes it grows from older roots. Overworking can be the part you see above ground, with roots in old relationship wounds, hard experiences at work, or loneliness, as Anne describes in Exposing our Roots.

Some people learned as children that working hard was how they earned attention and praise. As adults, slowing down can feel threatening, even when the pace is costing them their health or their family. Transactional Analysis calls a pattern like this a script, and Anne writes about it in The Story of a Life.

Anne also hears a quieter weight in her therapy room: unease about the state of the world. In her view, some of the burnout so many people feel carries unfelt grief about what is happening to the natural world. She explores this in Climate Anxiety and Our Generation's Existential Angst.

How we work with stress and burnout

Anne works with the stress you feel now and with the older patterns that keep you running. She uses Transactional Analysis and redecision therapy to look at early decisions about work, worth and rest, and Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT), a gentle body-based approach to past hurts.

Some of the work is simple and present. In Weathering the Storm, Anne writes that much of what stresses us is out of our control, but our breath and our thoughts are not. Unless someone is handing you a package, "I'm going to lose my job" is a thought about the future, and coming back to the present can make room to think clearly about your next step.

Divya takes an integrative approach to individual therapy. CBT looks at the stressful thoughts that arrive fast and feel like facts, and ACT and mindfulness help you make room for hard feelings while you keep moving toward what matters.

DBT skills help in the moments when stress spikes. Emotion-Focused Therapy looks at the feelings underneath.

For therapists and other helpers

Helping work brings its own kind of stress. You bring your best self to every session so you can be emotionally available, and sometimes a client touches something you are struggling with yourself.

Anne sees therapists, psychologists and counsellors in their own therapy, using Transactional Analysis, redecision therapy and AIT. As her page for therapists puts it, "The more you heal yourself, the more you can be there for your clients." Read more about therapy for therapists.

Common questions

Is my stress bad enough for therapy?

You do not need to be in crisis to come to therapy. Many people come simply because they want support, relief, or a deeper understanding of themselves. If stress is affecting your sleep, your health, your work or the people you love, that is reason enough to talk to someone.

How much does therapy for stress and burnout cost?

With Anne, sessions are $235 for 60 minutes, $290 for 75 minutes, $345 for 90 minutes and $460 for two hours. With Divya, sessions are $220 for 60 minutes, $275 for 75 minutes and $330 for 90 minutes. See the full list on our fees and insurance page.

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, so check your own plan for details.

Is therapy for stress available online?

Yes. 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. Some people come for focused, short-term support and others stay longer, and how long you come is always your choice.

Do you offer therapy for therapists dealing with burnout?

Yes. Anne Klein sees therapists, psychologists and counsellors in their own therapy, using Transactional Analysis, redecision therapy and Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT). Read more on our For Therapists page.

Who offers therapy for stress and burnout at Therapy for People?

Anne Klein, B.Comm, M.A. (Counselling Psychology), CCC, whose practice focuses on anxiety, depression and work stress. Divya Sharma, BSc, BSW, MSW, RSW, a Registered Social Worker with more than 11 years of experience, also offers individual therapy.