Best therapist in Calgary! I am so grateful to work with Rea. I immediately feel better after each session.

Submitted Aug. 18, 2023

I have been seeing Rea for a few years now, with great results. Prior to finding her, I had been in and out of psychologist’s offices for over 20 years with very little progress made. If you are ready to dig in and get to the root of your issues, Rea is amazing!!!
I especially like the latest technique of Havening that she has been using. It has been just as helpful as the other modalities she uses, but seems to work even faster.
I would highly recommend working with Rea; It has been truly life-changing for me.

Submitted April 16, 2023

Rea displayed a pattern of poor boundaries during my first appointment with her. I came to Rea to address trauma, and was prepared to discuss what I was seeking care for in general terms. Rea wanted to know detailed information about a traumatic experience. When I told her I wasn't comfortable disclosing further, Rea did not respect this, and continued to press me for more details than once.

I can understand a psychologist needing a certain amount of information to provide care for a client. However, I would expect a psychologist to build up a rapport and with a client, set goals for care, discuss and consent to a modality of treatment, and establish grounding techniques before having a client fully disclose trauma. I also expect a psychologist to respect a client saying more than once that I'm not ready to discuss something - especially when a psychologist specialises in trauma.

Ultimately, Rea was not a fit for me.

Submitted March 26, 2023

Completely changed my life. I am so grateful to Rea. She's used techniques I hadn't heard of before (CRM and Havening), but WOW. In one session, whatever issue I was dealing with was resolved. Compare this to talk therapy where you kind of keep going around in circles (my experience anyway). She is patient, empathetic and highly qualified. Best therapist in Calgary!

Submitted Feb. 27, 2023

Rea has been working with me on a number of traumas for almost 2 years and I have recommended her to a few people. She came recommended to me from a dear friend who told me that Rea is blunt, does not play around and might come of brusque. This appealed to me, as I was sick of therapists telling me they were proud of my coping skills that left me feeling exhausted and empty and lacking fulfillment in life.

If you want a psychologist/therapist to pat you on the back and coddle you, Rea is not for you. If you are ready to dig in and do the work and stop making excuses, and have a better life, Rea could be a good fit for you.

My life has transformed for the better as a result of the work we do. I sometimes go months without having an appointment with her because I don't feel I need to be in constant therapy. I feel empowered to live my life with the tools I now have.

It took a while to get here due to the complexities in my brain, but even after the first 6 sessions I noticed a big difference. EMDR still works long after the session is over, and every session is different and tailored for what I need help navigating. I can happily say that life feels a lot better now and I feel able to show up authentically way more than I was able to before starting EMDR with Rea.

Submitted Nov. 9, 2022

She is great! Rea helped worked thru some past trauma and current trauma and move forward. I would highly recommend her. She is funny, smart, patient and sympathetic, encouraging, engaging, it was great!

Submitted Sept. 28, 2022

knowledge and usefulness is lacking for counselling

Submitted June 16, 2022

I would never use this person, she is terrible with addiction related people and couples counselling.

Submitted Jan. 15, 2021

I would advise people looking for a good therapist to find someone else! She is scattered, makes promises that are completely unrealistic, states how competent she is frequently. Yet, i asked her to help me with a specific type of therapy she advertises herself to be competent in. Unfortunately, she never seemed to have any understanding of that modality. Being in the mental health field myself, if she had been a student of mine i would never have passed her. I found her completely incompetent.

Submitted Jan. 14, 2021

I saw Rea for slightly less than a year. Please be aware - she has been poisoned with the tendency to play political games. Her promises from the start were beyond what she was able to provide. She also claims to be very professional and accountable for her own emotional reactions but then she leaves you wanting when it comes time for her to explain.

Rea proved to be incapable of appropriately handling clients with a personality disorder; when a standard transference/counter-transference happened she was at a loss for how to effectively work with me to uncover the roots of the issue and to find a way forward. She identified a transference six months into treatment and assured me that things would work out okay "as long as the transference was understood". In the end she proved incapable of helping her client uncover and deal with the negative transference and the therapeutic alliance failed about six months later.

From my perspective, Rea must restrict her practice to work with people without personality disorders of any kind and she must be up-front and honest from the start about her limitations. I suspect that she would be successful only treating trauma and performance enhancement issues with her skill set.

Submitted June 2, 2016