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Meet Melody Evans
Registered Psychologist | Registered Marriage & Family Therapist | EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist | EMDRIA Approved Consultant | CAP Approved Supervisor
Founder, Can’t We Just Get Along Counselling
Helping Individuals and Couples Heal, Rebuild Trust, and Reconnect for More Than 25 Years
Melody Evans is a Registered Psychologist and Registered Marriage & Family Therapist in Calgary, Alberta, specializing in relationship trauma, betrayal and affair recovery, couples’ communication, attachment injuries, and EMDR therapy.
For more than 25 years, Melody has helped individuals and couples understand the experiences beneath their struggles, heal emotional wounds, rebuild trust, and strengthen their most important relationships.
Her work brings together advanced trauma treatment and evidence-based couples therapy with one central belief:
Healing is possible.
Areas of Clinical Focus
- Relationship Trauma
- Betrayal & Affair Recovery
- Couples Communication & Conflict
- Broken Trust
- Attachment Injuries
- EMDR Trauma Therapy
- Emotional Abuse Recovery
- Anxiety & Grief
Who Melody Helps
Individuals
Supporting adults healing from relationship trauma, betrayal, attachment injuries, emotional abuse, anxiety, grief, and painful experiences that continue to affect trust and connection.
Couples
Helping couples manage affairs and betrayal, broken trust, communication difficulties, recurring conflict, emotional disconnection, and attachment injuries.
Melody frequently works with individuals and couples who find themselves saying:
“We can’t communicate anymore.”
“I don’t know if I can trust my partner again.”
“We keep having the same fight.”
“We feel more like roommates than partners.”
“I can’t seem to get past what happened.”
Melody helps clients look beneath these struggles to understand what may be keeping the pain, conflict, or disconnection alive.
The Wound Beneath the Conflict
One question has guided Melody’s work for more than two decades:
“What happened that made communication, trust, or connection feel unsafe?”
Melody believes communication and trust difficulties are often the visible signs of deeper emotional wounds.
Trauma, betrayal, emotional neglect, and attachment injuries can continue influencing how people respond, protect themselves, and connect long after the original experience has passed.
Rather than focusing only on:
“How do we communicate better?”
Melody also helps clients understand:
“What may be making communication, trust, or vulnerability feel unsafe?”
Her approach integrates EMDR Therapy, Gottman Method Couples Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy to address both the emotional wounds beneath relationship struggles and the practical skills needed to move forward.
When emotional safety begins to return, communication can become easier, trust can begin to rebuild, and connection can become possible again.
What It’s Like to Work with Melody
Clients frequently describe Melody as warm, insightful, compassionate, and appropriately direct.
She believes therapy works best when people feel authentically understood while also being supported and challenged to grow.
Melody understands the bravery it takes to ask for help. She works to create an environment where clients feel respected, emotionally safe, and supported enough to explore even difficult parts of their story.
Whether someone is recovering from betrayal, healing from trauma, struggling with relationship conflict, or trying to reconnect with someone they love, Melody’s goal is to help clients move toward greater clarity, connection, and hope.
Why Clients Choose Melody
Choosing a psychologist is very personal, and Melody never takes that trust for granted.
For more than 25 years, she has worked with individuals and couples experiencing relationship trauma, betrayal, attachment injuries, emotional abuse, broken trust, and complex relationship difficulties.
★★★★★ 5-Star Rating
690+ Client Ratings
Sun Life Provider Search — formerly Lumino Health
Melody is honoured that so many clients have rated their experience five stars on the provider platform.
While every client’s experience is unique and therapy outcomes cannot be guaranteed, this feedback reflects Melody’s longstanding devotion to compassionate, ethical, and evidence-based psychological care.
Her work is grounded in one lasting belief:
When emotional safety begins to return, trust, communication, connection, and hope can begin to return with it.
An Integrated Approach to Relationship and Trauma Therapy
Melody brings together three complementary approaches to help clients address both the emotional wounds beneath their struggles and the practical changes required to move forward.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR helps clients process traumatic and painful experiences that continue to affect emotions, relationships, and the nervous system.
Melody is both an EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist and EMDRIA Approved Consultant.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
As a Gottman Method Level 3 Trained Therapist, Melody uses research-informed approaches to help couples improve communication, manage conflict, rebuild trust, and strengthen emotional connection.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Attachment-focused work helps clients understand how important relationships and past experiences may shape trust, vulnerability, emotional safety, and connection.
Together, these approaches help clients understand not only how to create change, but why change may have felt so difficult in the first place.
Therapeutic Approaches
Because every person and relationship is different, Melody thoughtfully tailors therapy to each client’s needs and goals.
- EMDR Therapy
- Flash EMDR
- EMDR 2.0
- EMDR Sandtray Therapy
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Ego State Therapy
- Systems Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Professional Leadership & Credentials
Melody believes clinical excellence requires more than experience. It requires ongoing learning, curiosity, consultation, and a devotion to continually improving client care.
As an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and CAP Approved Supervisor, Melody also provides consultation and clinical supervision to psychologists and therapists developing their skills in trauma-informed care.
Her professional credentials and affiliations include:
- Registered Psychologist
- Registered Marriage & Family Therapist
- Master of Science in Marriage & Family Therapy
- EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist
- EMDRIA Approved Consultant
- CAP Approved Supervisor
- Gottman Method Level 3 Trained Therapist
- Authorized Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work Leader
- Clinical Member, Canadian Association for Couple and Family Therapy (CACFT)
- Member, Psychologists’ Association of Alberta (PAA)
- Founder, EMDR Rocks Consultation Group
Melody continues to pursue advanced professional education in trauma treatment, EMDR, couples therapy, attachment, and nervous system regulation, believing that clients deserve care informed by both extensive clinical experience and continued learning.
Beyond the Therapy Room
Melody’s work reaches beyond providing therapy.
She provides EMDR consultation, clinical supervision, professional education, and speaking focused on trauma, relationships, emotional safety, and evidence-based psychological care.
She enjoys translating complex psychological concepts into practical ideas that help therapists, organizations, and community groups better understand trauma, relationships, and healing.
Outside her professional work, Melody values time with family and has a lifelong love of music. She continues to sing with a band and take voice lessons, making space in her own life for creativity, connection, and well-being.
Melody’s Philosophy
After more than 25 years in the therapy room, Melody has learned that painful experiences do not have to define what comes next.
Trauma can influence how people protect themselves.
Betrayal can disrupt trust.
Conflict can create distance.
But healing, reconnection, and meaningful change are possible.
Melody’s mission is to help individuals and couples heal emotional wounds, rebuild emotional safety, reconnect authentically, and create relationships that become a source of strength rather than suffering.
But healing, reconnection, and meaningful change are possible.
- From confusion to clarity.
- From emotional protection to emotional safety.
- From disconnection to connection.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you work with couples after an affair or betrayal?
Yes. Betrayal and affair recovery are central areas of Melody’s work. Therapy can help couples understand the impact of betrayal, rebuild emotional safety and trust, improve communication, and determine a meaningful way forward.
Can EMDR help with relationship trauma and betrayal?
EMDR may help clients process painful experiences that continue to trigger distress, fear, hypervigilance, or difficulty trusting. Melody integrates EMDR with attachment-focused and relationship-informed care when appropriate to the client’s needs.
Do you provide both individual and couples therapy?
Yes. Melody works with both individuals and couples, including people healing from relationship trauma individually and couples working to rebuild trust, communication, and connection.
What happens in the first appointment with Melody?
The first appointment focuses on understanding what has brought you to therapy, your concerns and goals, and the experiences that may be influencing the problem today. Together, you and Melody can begin identifying an approach that fits your needs.
A Personal Invitation
After more than 25 years as a therapist, I have learned that even when people have lost hope, healing and connection are still possible.
If you have found your way here because of betrayal, trauma, broken trust, relationship conflict, or emotional disconnection, you do not have to handle it alone.
Sometimes the experiences we have lived through keep shaping how we feel, trust, communicate, and connect. With the right support, those patterns can change, and emotional wounds can heal.
It would be my privilege to work alongside you as you move toward greater healing, connection, and hope.
Melody Evans
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