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Choice Point Psychological Services

Values-guided trauma therapy practice offering 1on1 & couples counselling, as well as EMDR consults.

11/28/2025

📍 Choice Point Psychological Services based in downtown, Calgary. Book a free 20 minute consultation with one of our psychologists today!

11/24/2025

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08/29/2025

Get your 7 Tips…👇

to begin building interoception skills, especially for those who have spent a long time feeling disconnected from their bodies:

1️⃣Start Small and Neutral Focus on a body part that feels emotionally neutral—like your hands or feet—rather than areas tied to trauma or discomfort.

2️⃣Check In Briefly and Often Set a timer to pause for 10–30 seconds a few times a day to ask, “What sensations are here right now?” No need to interpret—just notice.

3️⃣Name Sensations Without Judgment Use neutral words like “warm,” “tight,” “tingly,” or “heavy” to describe what you feel—avoid labeling anything as good or bad.

4️⃣Pair With Grounding Tools Use grounding techniques (touching a textured object, feeling your feet on the floor) to stay present while tuning into body sensations.

5️⃣Move Gently With Awareness Try slow, mindful movements like stretching or walking, paying attention to internal cues like pressure, effort, or tension.

6️⃣Practice with Safe Contexts Explore interoception in spaces or routines where you feel emotionally and physically safe—like during a warm shower or lying in bed.

7️⃣Be Patient and Compassionate Treat your interoception practice like a relationship that’s being rebuilt—go at your own pace and acknowledge even the smallest moments of awareness.

🧠Mind-body therapies or neurostimulation are some effective approaches to help repair your connection to your inner experiences with support.

💪If you struggle with anxiety, you may benefit from mind-body training.

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08/28/2025

Stress or survival mode? ⬇️

Many high-functioning adults are living with unprocessed trauma — and their memory is paying the price.

Here are four ways trauma impacts memory👇

1. Trauma can prevent information (like words, images, sounds, etc.) from different parts of the brain from combining to make a semantic memory. Semantic memory is the knowledge of basic facts and is key in processing + learning new information.

2. Trauma can shutdown episodic memory AKA the autobiographical memory of an event or experience - including the who, what, and where. This can create inconsistencies in your reporting of personal experiences and gaps in your recall of the past.

3. Trauma leads to fragmented emotional memory. This can cause you to get heightened unexpectedly and experience painful emotions, often without context.

4. Trauma is stored in the form of procedural memory, long term memory key for how to perform a common task (like riding a bike) without actively thinking. It can cause you to reenact unhelpful patterns of behaviour that you observed or resorted to at the time of your traumatic experience in order to cope. This could look like being prone to distraction, procrastination, and numbing behaviours.

🗣️The good news… our brain is capable of rewiring and there are many options to find relief.

🧠Mind-body therapies or neurostimulation are some effective approaches for teaching and facilitating healing.

🤔If you struggle with focus, attention, and recall, there could be deeper reasons.

🛋️Working with a trauma therapist can help you to rule out trauma as an underlying cause or formulate a plan that can help with mental and emotional clarity.

💛Follow to learn more!

08/25/2025

Focus on the basics 👇

1. Break down your todo list into micro tasks and focus on getting a few completed. Instead of cleaning the kitchen it could be doing the dishes. You may even break it down further such as unloading the cutlery.
2. Commit to just a few minutes (3-5 minutes) . Set a timer and give yourself full permission to stop after it’s done.
3. Build in a reward or something to look forward to after. Schedule a simple pleasure like sipping a favourite latte or tea post completing the task.
4. Find an accountability partner. Let someone know a task you’ve been struggling with and have them follow up with you to see how it is going.

🛋️Low motivation is something we all deal with, but consistently struggling could be a sign of more going on.

💪Motivation will always come and go, but finding connection and purpose in life again can be game changing.

💛Follow along for more tips and info!

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08/19/2025

Get the details 👇

We are excited to announce that we are now offering a form of neurostimulation therapy right here at Choice Point 🎉

While TMS/rTMS is not new— roughly 40+ years of research supporting this treatment— we are lucky to have the latest TMS technology currently available in 🇨🇦 💃🏼

🧘Exomind Therapy utilizes advanced ExoTMS technology, a non-invasive method that stimulates key areas of the brain responsible for regulating mood and cognitive function.

🧠 This innovative approach promotes neuroplasticity in an area of the brain that is susceptible to normal decline in activity due to aging and stress.

💪Each 24-minute session is like a workout for your mind, designed to strengthen mental resilience and improve overall well-being.

🛋️While the general population can experience cognitive and emotional benefits from this approach, these treatments are also showing promising results among individuals with depression, OCD, binge eating disorder, and more who otherwise aren’t responding to medication and therapy or who are seeking that extra boost.

If you are…
✅ a health and wellness practitioner or other service provider curious to learn more
or
✅ someone looking to try something new
or
✅wanting a boost to your current wellness plan…

Comment 🧠 and we can send you a link to schedule your complimentary consultation to address all your curiosities!

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08/18/2025

Ditch the myths and get the facts 👇

🙅‍♀️MYTH 1 - Depression is caused by a chemical imbalance.
✅The belief that low serotonin is responsible for depression has been debunked and deemed overly simplistic.
🙅‍♀️MYTH 2 - Seasonal depression is something you are stuck with for life.
✅By addressing seasonal and other contributors to your depression through therapy, medication, or neurostimulation, you can experience prolonged symptom relief or improvement.
🙅‍♀️MYTH 3 - Hormonal depression doesn’t respond to therapy.
✅No matter what put you into a depressed state, depression can start to influence how you think, feel, and behave - all which is important to address for long term recovery.
🙅‍♀️MYTH 4 - Depression is a choice or caused by negative thinking.
✅Many stuck in depression know how they think and feel isn’t rational but it can be tough to fight the physiological changes that depression can cause. Combining therapy with other approaches like medication and neurostimulation can be most effective.
🙅‍♀️MYTH 5 - Medication is your only option for improving depression symptoms.
✅Very few people see longterm results from medication alone if no environmental, lifestyle, or physiological factors are addressed.

Depression is now understood as a multifactorial condition. Causes may include:
* Genetic vulnerability
* Chronic stress or trauma
* Inflammation and immune system activity
* Hormonal changes
* Cognitive patterns (e.g., negative thought cycles)
* Environmental and social factors
* Brain circuitry and neuroplasticity changes

At CP, we understand that there are layers to recovery from depression. We can offer a variety of mind-body approaches to help you overcome negative thought cycles, recover from traumatic or stressful events, and take meaningful action towards the environmental or social factors keeping your depression active. We also offer rTMS treatment to further support neuroplasticity in the brain region that tends to be under active among those experiencing depression.

Please share with someone who could benefit from debunking these myths 💛

07/09/2025

My name is Dayna! 👋

MY APPROACH:
➡️Registered Psychologist
➡️Specializes in mind-body approaches to promote wellness, stress-recovery, and trauma healing.
➡️I have training in various mindfulness-based and somatic therapies to help with nervous system regulation.

WHO DO I SUPPORT:
➡️Adults navigating a wide range of challenges, including OCD, ADHD, anxiety, mood disorders, trauma, codependency, and life transitions.
➡️I have worked with youth, families, and adults, in a range of mental health-related settings since 2013.
➡️I often support clients coping with family conflict, grief, anxiety, low self-esteem, insomnia, and relationship issues.
➡️I also have a deep commitment to affirming care for LGBTQ+ clients and those exploring identity, sexuality, gender, or body image.

WHAT I WANT PROSPECTIVE CLIENTS TO KNOW:
➡️You don’t have to navigate this alone. Whether you’re dealing with stress, obsessive thoughts, or the quiet ache of loss, I’m here to help you build coping skills and create lasting, meaningful change. Therapy with me is a place to untangle what’s holding you back and reconnect with what matters most. I’m currently accepting new clients for virtual and in-person sessions. Let’s talk about how we can work together to support your goals and healing.

Want to set up an initial consultation FREE with Dayna? 👇

https://choicepointpsychological.ca/free-consultation/

07/08/2025

You can get there too👇

Trouble seeing a way forward from your current situation?

A future without feeling stuck in the same cycles 🔁

🧏‍♀️We created this post because we hear that all the time.

🛋️It can be hard to think about facing some of your hardest moments in therapy when you can’t even envision a world without the same pain.

📝Of course individual results will vary, but this post highlights some of the most common gains worked towards in therapy.

👀Notice that none of them refer to one single end point and they don’t require approval, repair, or for others around you to change.

💪This journey is about you.

✅You can get there too and we can help.

It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it. You may get suck along the way. We are here to help, which is why we created our free trauma healing guide.

🧠These are the insights I wish everyone had before they spend years talking about their pain, but never actually healing.

❤️‍🩹 Comment GUIDE and I will send you the link directly.

07/07/2025

Take the leap - download our free guide⬇️

☝️These beliefs are the most common among high achievers. They will keep you stuck before you even begin

🗣️ Therapists, have you or anyone you know felt this way before? Feel free to share about it in the 💬 or save/share this post to refer back to.

🛋️I find therapists can be just as guilty of deferring their own healing as other high achieving professionals. I know I have struggled with this in the past.

💡It can look like…
-downplaying your own struggles since you aren’t in crisis
-burying yourself in trainings, consultations, or therapist books to outrun your imposter syndrome
-feeling ashamed to admit the extent of your struggles to someone else in the industry
-over intellectualizing your struggles
-dismissing the physical signs that stress is piling

❗️This is your reminder that you don’t have to be in crisis to get support.

🧏‍♀️Focused mind-body therapy can help you do some much needed nervous system resetting so you can keep doing the important work you do just without the self-doubt, anxiety, and burnout.

⏰It might be time to take your own first step.

📔You can start by downloading our FREE trauma healing guide that addresses the common roadblocks you might face along your therapy journey and how to overcome them.

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940 6th Avenue SW
Calgary, AB
T2P3T1

Opening Hours

Monday	12pm - 7pm
Tuesday	12pm - 7pm
Wednesday	12pm - 7pm
Thursday	12pm - 7pm

Website

http://choicepointpsychological.ca/

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