I am Heartwill Elewosi, MSc., a Registered Provisional Psychologist, and founder of Emeth Psychological Services in Calgary, Alberta. I am a Black African immigrant Psychologist. I can understand what it means to carry the weight of multiple worlds. To navigate systems that were not built with you in mind. To be the strong one in your family, your community,
your workplace, while quietly running out of room for your own history. I have lived versions of these experiences. They shape how I show up in the room, with genuine curiosity, cultural humility, and deep respect for what it takes to finally say, I need support. I have a particular commitment to working with BIPOC adults, immigrants, and people navigating the specific exhaustion of existing in spaces that were not designed for them. This is not a specialty I adopted. It is a reflection of who I am and who I believe deserves to find a therapist who already understands something about their world before they walk through the door. My areas of focus include trauma and PTSD, caregiver burnout, anxiety, depression, chronic pain and illness, grief and loss, cultural identity and systemic stress, life transitions, and compassion fatigue. I also offer couples counselling with a particular understanding of intercultural and bicultural partnerships. I draw from evidence-based, culturally informed frameworks, including EMDR, CPT, IFS, DBT, ACT, CBT, and Motivational Interviewing. The approach always follows your lead. Services are available in person in Calgary and virtually across Alberta and Nova Scotia. A free 15-minute consultation is available to ask questions and determine if we would be a good fit.

Dayirai is a Registered Clinical Social Worker and approved Clinical Supervisor (RCSW-S) who is passionate about mental health care and envisions a world where families practice skills and regulate their emotions together. She has provided mental wellness, coaching, and consulting services to individuals, families, couples, and communities for over 17 years and is living her purpose. She is registered to practice in Alberta, Ontario, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and Nova Scotia. Dayirai obtained her MSW from Toronto Metropolitan University and is currently a doctoral student at the University of Alberta School of Public Health.

Dayirai has experience conducting comprehensive mental status screenings and provisional diagnoses using the DSM-5 and has facilitated DBT skills groups for adolescents and adults. As a Registered Clinical Social Worker in the province of Alberta, Dayirai can only provide clinical diagnosis to clients located in Alberta as per the ACSW guidelines.

She says that she ‘became Black when she came to Canada.’ Based on intersectional theory, her identity is also gendered, beginning as a girl child living in Zimbabwe who immigrated to Canada as a woman. Dayirai’s passion is partnering and working with clients to help them navigate the conflict that arises from the daily navigation of societal narratives and expectations versus their biographical narratives and how they identify themselves. She provides a compassionate and creative presence in attending to whatever clients bring to their work together. Her approach is respectful, authentic, ‘straightforward,’ strengths-based, recovery-oriented, culturally sensitive, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, solution-focused, empowering, anti-oppressive, collaborative, and non-judgmental.

Dayirai is fearless in talking about complicated or awkward stuff and is open to letting clients know when they are standing in their way. In terms of her style, Dayirai brings herself into her work genuinely and authentically, and when appropriate, she uses self-disclosure to help facilitate the therapeutic process with clients. Dayirai is active in the therapy process and balances listening to clients with providing reflection and direction. Dayirai’s goal is to meet clients where they are and to be helpful in a way that is specific to their circumstances.

Dayirai birthed Journeys of Life Counselling Services Inc. through many ups and downs. Losing her mom and witnessing her death at the tender age of 16 forever changed her life. As she has journeyed through this gift called life, Dayirai figured that there are lessons to be gotten, and she vowed to take what she is learning along the way and help others transform their lives on their terms. According to Dayirai, we each have a story worth telling, and as a result, she seeks to honour people’s stories as we journey together toward insight, transformational healing, and change. Dayirai is of the Christian faith. She enjoys music, dancing, reading, and spending quality time with family and friends.