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Your Mental Health Toolkit

Practical guidance, strategies, and resources to help you navigate life’s challenges and maintain balance.

Looking for our Resource List & Apps? Click Here.
You Don’t Always Have to Find the Positive: Making Space for Difficult Emotions image

You Don’t Always Have to Find the Positive: Making Space for Difficult Emotions

Why emotional well-being doesn’t always mean looking on the bright side
Annika Schaefer
September 16, 2026
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Recovery Is Possible: Understanding Recovery with Compassion

Recovery doesn’t follow one path. A reflection on recovery, compassion, and seeing the person beyond substance use.
Annika Schaefer
September 1, 2026
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Back to School: Supporting the Whole Family Through Transition

Helping families navigate new routines, changing expectations, and the emotions that come with a new school year.
Annika Schaefer
August 25, 2026
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There Is More Than One Path to Wellbeing

What Wellness Really Means and How to Support Your Mental Wellbeing
Annika Schaefer
August 12, 2026
When Grief Returns: Why Missing Someone Years Later Is Normal image

When Grief Returns: Why Missing Someone Years Later Is Normal

How grief changes over time, and why unexpected waves of loss are a natural part of healing.
Annika Schaefer
June 29, 2026
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PTSD Awareness Day: Weathered by Trauma, but Not Broken

Like a tree with exposed roots, being changed by what we weather is not the same as being broken.
Annika Schaefer
June 27, 2026
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International Widows’ Day: Meeting Loss with Care, Not Silence

Widowhood is a profound experience of grief and transition. This reflection explores the emotional and social impacts of loss and compassionate support after the death of a partner.
Annika Schaefer
June 23, 2026
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Holding Space for the Complex Emotions of Father’s Day

Whatever today holds for you—celebration, grief, or quiet reflection—your experience is valid.
Annika Schaefer
June 21, 2026
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Overcoming Overwhelm: The Foundational Step to Mental Well-Being

What We Almost Always Skip When We’re Overwhelmed
Annika Schaefer
June 17, 2026
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The Value of a Point of Reference in Mental Wellbeing and Daily Life

Exploring how small, steady anchors like routines, values, and trusted relationships help us stay grounded, reduce mental overwhelm, and find orientation in everyday life.
Annika Schaefer
June 12, 2026
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Land Acknowledgement: I respectfully acknowledge that I am on Treaty 6 territory, traditional lands of First Nations and Métis peoples. As treaty People, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, we share the responsibility for stewardship of this beautiful land.

My office is located on the second floor (unit #8) inside the mental health and wellness collective Present Mind Wellness and is accessible by stairs or a chair lift only. If you need to use the chair lift, please reach out and I can provide you with any necessary information. 

  • Home
  • Meet Annika
    • Meet Annika – Your Counselling Therapist
    • Credentials & Affiliations
    • Annika's Ongoing Training & Development
  • Working Together
    • Why Counselling?
    • Individual Counselling
    • Trauma Counselling
    • EMDR
    • Accelerated Resolution Therapy
    • Insurance Coverage
    • Bilingual Counselling
    • Bilingual Counselling - Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
  • Mental Health Toolkit
    • Your Mental Health Toolkit - Blog
    • Your Mental Health Toolkit - Resources
  • Events & Community Engagement
  • Crisis Support
  • Contact
  • Schedule with Annika

  • Schaefer Counselling Services

    64 Riel Dr, Unit 8
    St. Albert, AB
    T8N 4A4 Canada
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Office Hours

Monday to Friday from 10:00 am until 5:00 pm.

Contact

  • Phone:
    780.994.0464

  • Email:
    annika@schaefercounsellingservices.ca

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