I have been seeing Clara for several years now. I originally went to her to get help with severe anxiety and depression. My anxiety was making it difficult to get though my daily life. My marriage and career were both in jeopardy. With Clara’s help I have been able to become happy and functional again. My marriage is back in excellent shape and I have been able to pursue my dream of becoming a Fire Fighter. Clara is more to me than just a “therapist.” We have connected on a personal level. I feel she truly cares about me and my future. I have referred Clara to friends that needed help with difficult times, and I would recommend her to anyone that needs help, whatever that may be. Her knowledge and caring attitude made it possible for me to accept and deal with my problems. Clara has always been available whenever I needed to talk. I am very fortunate to know Clara and to have her help and reassurance. I couldn’t have done it without her!

I was referred to Clara Houston for counselling to overcome some deep rooted emotional trauma linked to family of origin and life events. Clara is a master psychologist and extremely gifted at understanding the most complex and intertwined core issues that prevent one from feeling better. I am a happier and more grounded person today as a result of Clara's compassion, dedication, and years of behavioral insights. She has done the "10,000 hours". Clara is honest, practical, positive, and partners to provide great support throughout the entire process. She is also a wonderful listener and at times will provide such poignant references that truly inspire reflection and growth. A critical piece in my therapy was the use of EMDR treatments with Cognitive Behavioural therapy to overcome past trauma. In addition, as a result of my progress, my entire family signed up for some of their own "tune-ups" with Clara and have continued from time to time. For this I am forever grateful. I feel our family as a whole is thriving and more harmonious than ever.

With considerable skill, much if it based on her extensive experience caring for professional persons like myself, Clara Houston has sustained me over the course of several serious health and emotional issues and facilitated my ability to continue practising my profession"

I was overwhelmed, aging parents, work pressures, family illness. I didn’t have the tools to get a grip on the things that were in front of me. Clara didn’t tell me what to do, what the solution was. She helped me organize my thoughts, my emotions and guided me to solve them on my own. What I love to call “Clarafication". That made all the difference.

Clara has guided me gently and skillfully from depression and despair to health and happiness. She is my trusted healer for and to whom I am forever grateful.

I have struggled with anger all my life. It has cost me many relationships. Through counselling with Clara Houston, I have learned how to use anger in ways that do not hurt people. I now have good coping skills.

I have been a client of Clara's for over 20 years. She has provided great advise and amazing support through my life journey. Most recently I found myself I trapped in a cycle of mental abuse with my partner of many years and when I left the relationship I became the victim of violent harassment for which he was arrested. The support I received from Clara helped me come to terms with not only the end of the relationship but with managing the unbelievable stress of the legal proceedings I was faced with. With her knowledge of the legal system and Victim Support Services in Calgary she was able to walk me through the whole process from my subpoena to court, what to expect in court and what agencies I could reach out to for moral and financial support. Clara's kind, compassionate and calming nature together with her amazing knowledge of the human mind got me through that terrible time of fear, anger, sadness and guilt and I am now happier than I have ever been. Clara is truly a part of my health team and I will be forever grateful to her. Clara is passionate about her work and dedicated to her clients. I would highly recommend Clara to anyone who is dealing with a difficult life situation or to anyone who feels they need some help becoming a better version of themself.

In my opinion, Clara is a consummate, professional clinician. She is competent and kind. Clara has the highest ethical standards. I would never hesitate to confide in her regarding my most personal concerns. Clara has been enormously helpful to me in my ongoing struggles with anxiety and depression. She listens carefully and provides straight forward suggestions in her calm, empathetic manner. She is well organized and thoughtful, having expertise in a wide array of clinical issues and modalities. In summary, I would recommend Clara to anyone seeking a trustworthy, experienced therapist.

I have had many counselling sessions with Clara Houston, initially through face-to-face sessions, and then later on Skype. I expected a difference but there really wasn’t one, other than Skype being very convenient and more accessible. I was able to meet with Clara on Skype at times when I otherwise wouldn’t have been able to, due to work and home commitments. Seeing and talking to each other on Skype, I found that we had the same interactions as we did in person. The method of communication didn’t matter – the important thing was that Clara made me feel at ease when discussing difficult things in my life. My experience with Clara Houston has been completely positive and productive. She has helped me to understand my life better, to make sense of things, and to see things more clearly. She has helped me to get through times of immense pain in my life, when I could not see any reason for living. One of the things I respect most about Clara is that she will always tell me the truth. I feel safe in discussing difficult things with her. I don’t know how to describe her skills as a counsellor except to say that she has taken me from the abyss to a brighter world, to help me find some peace of mind. Clara doesn’t judge me, she doesn’t let me down, and she has provided me with help in dealing with severe problems and also with ways to make my life significantly better. She has been very supportive of my efforts to change things that hurt me. She didn’t tell me what to do, but she knew the right things to say that would help me to make sense of what was happening in my life. She is able to draw from her experiences in counselling many different groups of people – so she has been able to relate to events in my life, and provide helpful comments and questions to me. Without Clara’s counselling help, I wouldn’t be alive today. It takes a really special person to understand someone else’s extreme pain, and to know how to help that person. Clara did that for me, and now I feel joy in my life. To Clara -- thank you so much for all that you have done for me. I wholeheartedly recommend Clara Houston as a counsellor. She is a counsellor of extraordinary abilities, and a person of exceptional kindness.