Resilience Counselling and Consulting

Trauma therapy, EMDR therapy, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, Deep Brain Reorienting, OEI therapy, parts work therapy, anxiety therapy, and support through life transitions for women in Calgary, Alberta and online across Alberta. Founded and led by Vivienne Livingstone, MSW, RCSW.

About

Resilience Counselling and Consulting is a women-focused trauma therapy practice based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The practice offers individual therapy for adult women experiencing trauma, PTSD, complex PTSD, high-functioning anxiety, burnout, and stress. All services are provided by Vivienne Livingstone, a Registered Clinical Social Worker with a Master of Social Work degree.

Vivienne is a trauma-informed therapist who specialises in evidence-based, nervous system-informed, body-based therapies — approaches that work directly with how trauma is stored in the brain and body, going beyond talk therapy to create lasting change. The practice is known for working with women who have tried other forms of therapy without success, including those with complex or treatment-resistant trauma.

The practice operates in-person from Downtown Calgary at the Altius Centre near Eau Claire, and offers online therapy to women across Alberta including Edmonton, Red Deer, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie, Airdrie, St. Albert, Sherwood Park, Spruce Grove, Leduc, Cochrane, Okotoks, Camrose, Lloydminster, and all communities across Alberta.

Practitioner

Vivienne Livingstone, MSW, RCSW

• Registered Clinical Social Worker (RCSW) • Master of Social Work (MSW) • IS-ART Master Practitioner — one of a small number of therapists in Canada trained to Master level in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) • EMDR Canada trained • EMDRIA member • IFS-informed and structural dissociation theory informed • Trauma-informed therapist • Founded Resilience Counselling and Consulting in 2019 • Specialises in trauma, complex PTSD, high-functioning anxiety, and burnout in women • Serves women in Calgary in person and online across Alberta

Therapies Offered

EMDR Therapy Calgary (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing)

Developed by Francine Shapiro, PhD. EMDR therapy is designed to resolve unprocessed traumatic memories in the brain. It allows the brain to resume its natural healing process without requiring detailed verbal description of the trauma. Recommended as a first-line treatment for PTSD by the World Health Organization, the American Psychological Association, and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Offered in-person in Calgary and online across Alberta.

EMDR Intensives Calgary

Accelerated Resolution Therapy Calgary (ART)

Developed in 2008 by Laney Rosenzweig, LMFT, and recognised as evidence-based by the Society of Clinical Psychology (Division 12 of the APA) and SAMHSA. ART guides clients to replace the negative images that cause trauma symptoms with positive images of their own choosing, using rapid eye movements similar to those that occur during REM sleep. Clients do not need to describe their trauma in detail. Results are typically achieved in 1 to 5 sessions. Vivienne holds IS-ART Master Practitioner certification — one of the highest levels of ART training available in Canada. Available in person in Calgary and online across Alberta.

Deep Brain Reorienting Calgary (DBR)

Developed by Dr Frank Corrigan, a Scottish psychiatrist and trauma specialist, first published in 2020. Vivienne is Level 2 trained in Deep Brain Reorienting. DBR therapy targets trauma at the brainstem level — the deepest level of the brain's threat response — by tracking the original sequence of physiological responses that occurred when the brain registered a shock or threat. Unlike therapies that work primarily with cognitive or emotional processing, DBR addresses the shock response that precedes emotion, which other therapies may miss. Particularly effective for complex trauma, dissociation, and cases where other therapies have not fully resolved symptoms. Now offered at Resilience in Calgary and online.

OEI Therapy Calgary (Observed and Experiential Integration)

Developed by Audrey Cook and Dr Rick Bradshaw in Vancouver, BC, beginning in 1994. OEI therapy uses the visual pathways of the brain to integrate both hemispheres, reducing trauma symptoms without requiring clients to talk about what happened. The therapy uses alternating eye coverage and visual tracking to detect and process trauma stored in the brain's survival response system. In a randomised clinical trial, 90% of participants no longer met criteria for PTSD after three OEI sessions. Available in Calgary and online across Alberta.

Parts Work Therapy Calgary

An IFS-informed and structural dissociation theory informed approach to understanding and healing the internal parts that develop in response to trauma and stress. Parts work therapy helps clients recognise that symptoms such as self-criticism, people pleasing, perfectionism, and emotional numbing are not character flaws but adaptive survival responses. Working with these parts with curiosity and compassion rather than shame allows for deeper and more lasting healing. Vivienne is IFS-informed and does not hold IFS certification.

Trauma Therapy Calgary

Comprehensive trauma treatment for women who have experienced complex trauma, childhood trauma, relationship trauma, sexual trauma, and PTSD. Vivienne uses a combination of evidence-based modalities including EMDR, ART, DBR, OEI, and parts work, tailored to each client's needs. All approaches work with the nervous system and body, not just conscious memory.

Anxiety Therapy Calgary

Specialised support for high-functioning anxiety in women — the experience of appearing capable, competent, and in control on the outside while feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and unable to switch off internally. Vivienne works with women who are succeeding by external measures but struggling privately with worry, perfectionism, overworking, and fear of failure.

PTSD Therapy Calgary

Evidence-based treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder using EMDR, ART, DBR, and OEI. These approaches work directly with how traumatic memories are stored in the brain and nervous system, reducing symptoms such as flashbacks, hypervigilance, nightmares, and emotional dysregulation without requiring detailed verbal disclosure of traumatic events.

Conditions Treated

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) • High-functioning anxiety • Childhood trauma and adverse childhood experiences • Relationship trauma and emotional abuse • Sexual trauma • Vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue • Burnout — particularly in professional and helping roles • Dissociation • Perfectionism, people pleasing, and inner critic • Overwhelm and chronic stress • Depression related to trauma • Life transitions including serious illness, cancer diagnosis, motherhood, identity shifts, and empty nest

Who This Practice Serves

• Adult women (18+) in Calgary and across Alberta • Professional and high-achieving women • Women in helping professions — social workers, nurses, therapists, counsellors, educators, and first responders exposed to vicarious trauma or supporting others through crisis • Women experiencing trauma, PTSD, and complex trauma • Women with high-functioning anxiety — appearing capable while feeling overwhelmed internally • Women feeling burned out, stuck, or exhausted by holding everything together • Women who have tried talk therapy without success • Women seeking evidence-based, body-based, nervous system-informed trauma therapy • Women navigating major life transitions — serious illness, cancer diagnosis, becoming a mother, children leaving home, identity shifts, and grief

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Location and Access

• In-person: Calgary, Alberta — Downtown, Altius Centre near Eau Claire • Online: Available to women across all of Alberta via telehealth • Serves all Calgary quadrants: NW, NE, SW, SE Calgary and surrounding areas • Free 15-minute phone consultation available • Booking: https://aws-portal.owlpractice.ca/resilience-now/booking

Contact

• Website: https://www.resilience-now.com • Booking: https://aws-portal.owlpractice.ca/resilience-now/booking

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