Individual Adults
For grief, women’s issues, anxiety, self-esteem, identity, relationships and life transitions.
Learn more →Counselling in Medicine Hat + virtual across Alberta
You are more than the story you have been given.
Counselling for grief, women’s issues, relationships, anxiety, self-esteem, identity, religious trauma and life transitions — with space for complexity, contradiction and the parts of you that do not fit neatly into a label.
I’m not interested in reducing you to a diagnosis, a symptom list, or a single explanation for why you feel the way you do.
Who I work with
Counselling for real lives, not perfect ones.
Some people arrive knowing exactly what they want to work on. Others only know that something feels off, heavy, disconnected or unsustainable. Both are welcome.
Couples
In-person counselling for couples navigating conflict, disconnection, communication and changing relationship patterns.
Learn more →Adolescents
A grounded, respectful space for adolescents who may not respond to overly clinical or scripted counselling.
Learn more →Parents & Families
Support for families trying to understand patterns, conflict, transitions and what is happening beneath behaviour.
Learn more →A place to begin
Grief changes more than people realize.
Grief can rearrange your relationships, sense of self, beliefs, body, priorities and understanding of the future. It is not always something to “move through” neatly.
Sometimes the work is not about getting over what happened. It is about learning who you are now that it did.
Grief & lossWomen’s issuesRelationshipsAnxiety
Self-esteemReligious trauma & deconstructionIdentityLife transitions
About Renée
Warm, curious, direct — and not especially conventional.
I do not believe therapy needs to be politically performative, overly clinical, or built around telling you what to think. I am interested in understanding your experience, your patterns, your history, your relationships and the meaning you make of what has happened.
I will listen carefully. I will also challenge you when it matters. Counselling can be compassionate without being vague, and vulnerable without becoming fragile.
Renée LaJoie, B.Ed., MACP, CCC, RCT
More about my approach$125per session
In person + virtualCouples are in person only
Medicine Hat519 2nd Street SE, Suite 1
InsuranceReceipts provided; confirm coverage with your provider
You do not need the perfect words before you book.
You can begin with what you know — or simply with the sense that something needs to change.
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