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Therapy & Counselling

Our team is here to support your unique path with an individually tailored, collaborative and reciprocal process. When the client-practitioner relationship takes a non-hierarchical stand, it makes way for mutual trust, learning and true healing. Intrinsic welcomes you – exactly as you are – to an open and inclusive environment where your healing is the priority. Our team is intentionally versat... Read More

Our team is here to support your unique path with an individually tailored, collaborative and reciprocal process. When the client-practitioner relationship takes a non-hierarchical stand, it makes way for mutual trust, learning and true healing. Intrinsic welcomes you – exactly as you are – to an open and inclusive environment where your healing is the priority. Our team is intentionally versatile, with an empowering and human-first philosophy that extends from practitioner to client. Step into a space where you can drop your armour and celebrate your individual nuances, in company.

The Intrinsic team is comprised of multi-faceted individuals, each with a distinct background and perspective that’s celebrated and embraced. They’re united by the desire to lead with human-centric counselling that nurtures individual freedom and in turn, fuels collective healing.

You may be feeling a noticeable or significant struggle with anxiety, depression, or burnout or are experiencing curiosities about purpose, vision, career and life transitions or circumstances such as stress-leave, breakup, infidelity and other lived experiences. Therapy acts as a constant entry point for general reflection and resourcing at any stage or season in life.

Newfound freedom and fulfilment is within reach. With a focus on somatic, relational and trauma-informed support, Intrinsic Therapy is home to a versatile team of empathetic, open and invested practitioners. We welcome all to find safe belonging, make real shifts and transform from within. The magic of authenticity? When we know and accept ourselves, it extends to our communities to fuel collective healing – a revolution we’re all for. Transformation sparks with self-knowing and grows with self-love. We each hold layers of conditioning, unmet needs and quieted desires; together, let’s explore them without judgement. As you make real shifts, Intrinsic equips you with tools and practices to navigate every change with honest compassion.

Founded by Cristina Kalas, a Registered Psychologist and proponent for human-centric counselling, Intrinsic is home to a versatile team of empathetic, open and invested practitioners. Our culture is intentionally inclusive and empowers our people—including folks that are asexual, queer, trans, non-binary, Black, Indigenous, racialized and differently abled as well as those who have experienced systemic oppression or gender-based violence—to get curious and challenge convention in safe belonging.

As Intrinsic’s community-cultivator, Cari is a residing counsellor and educator and holds professional designation as a Registered Social Worker with the Alberta College of Social Work. B.C. born, Cari completed her Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Social Work close to home. She then pursued her Masters in Social Work, with a practicum centred on concurrent substance use and mental health concerns. For the past eight years of Cari’s social work practice she has held the privilege of working within a variety of healthcare and wellness settings focusing on sexual trauma, substance misuse, mental health, managing breakups, divorce, and intimate partner and gender-based violence. Cari takes pride in establishing and restoring healthy relationships with self and others, finding joy in sharing presence with people as they show up for themselves and shift from surviving to thriving.

As Intrinsic’s community-cultivator, Cari is a residing counsellor and educator and holds profess... Read More

As the leader behind Intrinsic, Cristina Kalas holds accreditation as a Registered Psychologist with the College of Alberta Psychologists. In 2016 Cristina founded her company as she was eager to cultivate an environment that aligned with her desire for people-centric support. Cristina’s education includes a Bachelors Degree in Biological Sciences with a major in Biochemistry, a Masters in Counselling Psychology; nowadays you can catch her dabbling in physics and quantum theory. Naturally curious, Cristina considers herself a life-long student, having traversed the globe intent on experiencing unique cultures and ways of knowing. Her diverse training and experience enables an ability to relate to a spectrum of mindsets, firmly believing that unique perspectives are what makes our world turn. Her philosophy is rooted in the understanding that intrinsically, all people deserve to feel fulfilled and define the life they desire regardless of barriers or the perceived size of struggle.

As the leader behind Intrinsic, Cristina Kalas holds accreditation as a Registered Psychologist w... Read More

As Intrinsic’s human-rights advocate, J. May Kanipayor is a Registered Psychologist with the College of Alberta Psychologists. Early into her career May pursued a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree with an honours in Psychology out east. She then took the leap across Canada to complete a Master’s Degree in Psychological Science and a Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology. Soon after she took on a year-long Clinical Residency for Mental Health Sciences. May considers herself a change-agent for justice and human-care, expressing great pride and privilege to have worked with individuals from all walks of life and manners of mental affliction – from challenges with work-life balance, daily goal-setting and problem-solving, stress and overall anxiousness. She derives great harmony and a sense of purpose from family life and holds them close; so close that they’ve opted to live together!

As Intrinsic’s human-rights advocate, J. May Kanipayor is a Registered Psychologist with the Coll... Read More

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Located at: 421 7 Ave SW, 30th Floor, TD Canada Trust Tower, Calgary
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