Supporting Children, Teens, Adults, Couples, and Families with Practical Counselling for Stronger Relationships, Greater Resilience, and Lasting Change
Life can occasionally feel overwhelming. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, family conflict, relationship challenges, parenting stress, trauma, or feeling stuck, you don’t have to face it alone.
Jacqueline Hemmings is a Registered Provisional Psychologist who provides warm, practical, and participative counselling for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families in Calgary. She believes significant change begins when people feel listened to, understood, and supported.
Before becoming a psychologist, Jacqueline spent more than twenty years working as an educator and mentor. Throughout her career, she helped children, adolescents, parents, and families manage stress, emotional challenges, conflict, learning difficulties, and life transitions. Today she brings that calm, compassionate, encouraging approach into the therapy room, helping clients cope, communicate, and connect more effectively.
Jacqueline understands that every person has a unique story. Rather than offering one-size-fits-all solutions, she works closely with clients to understand what is happening beneath the surface and develop practical strategies that support lasting change. Her goal is to help clients go beyond simply surviving toward greater confidence, resilience, and psychological health.
Who Jacqueline Works With
Jacqueline enjoys working with:
Children
Helping children who are experiencing:
- Anxiety and stress
- Affective regulation difficulties
- Friendship challenges
- Behavioural concerns
- Trauma
- Homework and school-related struggles
- Building self-assurance and fortitude
Teens
Supporting adolescents who are navigating:
- Anxiety and stress
- Self-esteem concerns
- Affective regulation
- Friendship and peer conflict
- School pressures
- Identity development
- Trauma and life transitions
Adults
Helping adults work through:
- Anxiety
- Trauma
- Relationship concerns
- Self-esteem
- Burnout
- Work-life balance
- Individual development
- Building more efficient coping strategies
Couples
Jacqueline works with couples who want to strengthen their relationship by improving communication, reducing conflict, renewing trust, and creating healthier patterns of connection. Having completed Gottman Level 1 Training, she uses relationship strategies that help couples build practical skills they can continue using long after therapy ends.
Families
Using a family systems perspective, Jacqueline helps families better comprehend their unique dynamics alongside improving communication, reducing conflict, and strengthening relationships between family members.
Areas of Clinical Focus
Jacqueline provides counselling for:
- Anxiety
- Trauma
- Affective regulation
- Self-esteem
- Parenting
- Communication difficulties
- Conflict resolution
- Relationship challenges
- Marriage and couples counselling.
- Family conflict
- Stress management
- Life transitions
- Burnout
- Workplace stress
- Behavioural concerns
- School-related challenges
- Adult and psychoeducational assessment support
Jacqueline’s Therapeutic Approach
Jacqueline believes therapy should feel supportive, collaborative, and practical for the concerns clients bring to counselling.
She integrates evidence-based approaches including:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Trauma-Focused CBT
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Narrative Therapy
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Skills
- Exposure Therapy
- Self-Compassion approaches
- Mindfulness
- Expressive Arts
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy (Level 1)
Rather than simply talking about problems, Jacqueline works alongside clients to develop practical tools they can begin using in everyday life.
What It’s Like to Work With Jacqueline
Clients often describe Jacqueline as warm, genuine, encouraging, practical, and easy to talk to. She creates a relaxed, accepting environment in which people feel safe discussing even the most difficult parts of their lives.
During your first session, Jacqueline takes time to understand your concerns, your goals, and what has brought you to counselling. Together, you’ll begin creating a realistic, personalized, and hopeful plan.
She hopes that every client leaves each session feeling:
- Heard and understood
- More hopeful
- Better equipped with useful tools
- Confident that significant change is possible
- Supported by a strong therapeutic relationship
Education & Professional Training
Jacqueline completed:
- Doctor of Psychology (PsyD), California Southern University
- Master of Education (M.Ed.), University of Calgary
- Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), University of Calgary
She is a Registered Provisional Psychologist in Alberta and is a member of the Psychologists’ Association of Alberta. She has also completed Gottman Level 1 Training in couples therapy.
Jacqueline’s Philosophy
Jacqueline believes people are remarkably resilient.
Healing happens when individuals feel accepted, understood, supported, and empowered to bring meaningful changes in their lives. She appreciates collaboration, authenticity, compassion, and helping clients discover strengths they may not yet recognize in themselves.
A Little About Jacqueline
Outside the therapy office, Jacqueline enjoys spending time with her husband, three children, and their many family pets in a house full of animals, which are loved dearly! Two dogs: Jackson and
Beau, one cat: Nora and two aquarium frogs: Jordan Jr., Nola and Froggy. She loves hiking in the Calgary area, reading, cooking, listening to music, and creating opportunities to connect with family and friends. These experiences have brought her to the importance of balance, connection, and life’s humble moments.
Ready to Make the First Step?
Whether you’re looking for support for yourself, your child, your relationship, or your family, Jacqueline is committed to providing a compassionate, collaborative, and encouraging counselling space where lasting change can begin.
She would be honoured to journey with you as you build greater resilience, healthier relationships, and a life that seems more connected, hopeful, and fulfilling.
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