Ali Chacalias (She/Her), R. Psych
Golden Hour Psychology + Wellness
Ali’s approach is rooted in helping you slow down, reflect, and better understand the deeper patterns, experiences, and emotions that may be keeping you stuck. Together, Ali will help you work toward creating meaningful, lasting change while building self-awareness, emotional regulation, and healthier ways to navigate life’s challenges.
Ali focuses on helping individuals who find themselves stuck in anxiety, dysregulation, or exhaustion from not feeling good enough. Ali supports those who struggle with over-functioning through people-pleasing or having high expectations for themselves, or under-engaging through avoidance or emotional dysregulation. Ali aims to help her clients strengthen emotional regulation, heal relational patterns, and reconnect with the grounded, confident parts of themselves. Ali loves to work with those individuals who are feeling ready to explore the deeper roots of their stress, anxiety, or relational struggles and want to move towards healthier boundaries, deeper connection, and a more secure sense of self.
Ali uses a collaborative, evidence-based therapeutic approach that is tailored to meet her client’s needs and tap into their unique experiences and strengths. Ali draws from cognitive approaches, somatic approaches, attachment theory, and parts work. She is trained in EMDR (eye movement desensitization) and uses this approach to help individuals move past single traumatic incidents or chronic traumatic (childhood or other) experiences. Ali is also a yoga teacher and so she brings yoga and mindfulness principles into her work with clients.
Ali’s main areas of focus are: anxiety, OCD, trauma (PTSD, complex trauma, single incident and childhood or other experiences), relationship challenges (attachment, conflict, boundaries, & communication), burnout/emotional dysregulation, people-pleasing and perfectionism, depression, and life transitions.
Contact Info
Email: ali@goldenhourpsych.ca
Phone: 587-254-3674
Website: goldenhourpsych.ca
Book Here: Online Booking
Instagram: goldenhour.psychology
Availability:
Monday - Thursday. Evening availability on Tuesdays
In person & Virtual appointments.
Areas of Practice:
Adults (18+); Individuals
Therapy
Anxiety; Trauma (PTSD, childhood traumas, single-incident trauma, and other); Depression; Relationship and family conflict (including boundary and communication strategies); Burnout, and Life transitions.
Trained in: Somatic and Attachment Therapy training; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT); EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprocessing therapy); NeurOptimal Neurofeedback Trainer; Additional training in the treatment of trauma.
NIHB provider
Veterans Affairs Provider
WCB Provider
Personal Interests:
Outside of being a therapist, you can find me chasing after my toddler and getting outside in nature to regulate my nervous system. I love new adventures, travelling to a new part of the world, live music, yoga, or spending time with good food, good friends and good books.
