Cathy McCurdy, BSW, MA, RSW

Living Well Senior Registered Social Worker

cathy-mccurdy Cathy is a professional Calgary therapist who brings 20 years experience counselling couples, individuals, and families with relationship and personal issues, as well as supervising therapists and facilitating retreats. She loves helping couples reconnect and bring back the passion in their marriage. She also has skills in marriage preparation, and individual growth and healing. Cathy’s deep empathy, gentle compassion, and sensitivity to your issues, helps you feel safe, understood without judgement, and accepted for who you are. She builds trusting, healthy relationships with clear boundaries.

Some of Cathy’s areas of Strengths:

Couple Issues:

Affairs/Affair Recovery
Communication
Conflict resolution
Divorce
Emotional Abuse
Grown Apart
Parenting
Separation

Marriage Preparation:

Learn Strategies and Tools to Resolve Differences Easily
How to Keep Your Love Alive
Gain Greater Understanding of Your Partner
Affair Prevention Tools

Individual Issues:

Anxiety
Alcohol Abuse
Assertive Communication
Boundaries
Depression (mild, moderate and severe)
Career Counselling
Confidence
Emotional Abuse
Family of Origin Issues
Grief/Loss
Healing Through Past Pain
Internet Pornography Addiction
Life Transitions
Loneliness
Mid-Life Crisis
Mindfulness/Self-Compassion
People Pleasing
Self Esteem
Stress
Trauma/PTSD Recovery
Work Related Issues

Cathy’s unique training to become a counsellor, combines psychology with spirituality, which she received completing her MA in Transpersonal Psychology. For couples work she has achieved successful results working with those who have grown apart, are separated or had an affair, by using her training as a Certified Imago Therapist. Cathy completed Imago Relationship Therapy learning directly from its founder, Harville Hendrix. Imago teaches you tools on how to reconnect and helps you discover what lies underneath the conflict and distancing in your relationship.

She has also had great success with individual issues using an eclectic approach including Solution Focused Therapy, Body-Centered therapy, and EFT. Cathy has daytime and evening availability.
If you would like to schedule a free 20 minute consultation with Cathy to see whether she may be a good fit for you, please call (403) 695-7911 or email intake@livingwellcounselling.ca

Cathy is part of our Therapy Thursdays writer’s group to provide our community on tips for better mental health. You can find all of her articles here, with her top articles being:

Is Conflict Healthy in an Intimate Relationship?

Do’s and Don’ts of Texting in a Relationship

Do You Know Your Partner’s Love Language?

Why say “YES” to Marriage Preparation