Savera Medical and Psychology: Psychologists

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My name is Aryeo Kim, and I'm a Registered Psychologist (P7356) with the College of Alberta Psychologists and the College of Psychologists and Behavior Analysts of Ontario (CPBAO). I hold a Master of Counselling degree from City University and have been working in the mental health field for over seven years across diverse settings, including hospitals, schools, group home, governments and private practice.

I provide individual and family therapy for children, adolescents, and adults in English and Korean. I take a warm, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive approach, believing that healing begins with safety, curiosity, and self-compassion. I understand how painful it can be to navigate stress, mental illness, or trauma and how important it is to feel genuinely heard and supported in that process.

I specialize in working with individuals who experience complex trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), emotional dysregulation, personality disorders, self-harm, and challenges related to neurodivergence. I also have extensive experience supporting youth with neurodevelopmental disorders, attachment concerns, and developmental disabilities.

Some common concerns I help clients address include people-pleasing, perfectionism, chronic shame, social withdrawal, identity confusion, minority stress, dissociation, substance use, fear of failure, interpersonal conflict, low self-worth, and cultural clashes. Together, we work to build emotional regulation, resilience, and meaningful change.

I currently offer therapy for children, adolescents, adults, and families. My practice is culturally inclusive and neurodivergent-affirming.

My work integrates evidence-based modalities tailored to each client’s unique needs, including:

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – CBT helps clients become aware of unhelpful thinking patterns and understand how these thoughts influence emotions and behaviours. By learning to reframe these patterns, clients can make positive behavioural changes and improve emotional well-being.

• Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) – ART is a brain-based, rapid eye movement therapy that helps clients resolve traumatic memories and distressing experiences without needing to verbalize them in detail. It is often effective for PTSD, anxiety, and intrusive images, and can bring relief in just a few sessions.

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) – EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain process and integrate traumatic memories. It reduces the emotional intensity of difficult experiences and helps build adaptive coping strategies. EMDR is widely used for trauma, anxiety, and negative self-beliefs.

• Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) – EFT supports clients in identifying, exploring, and making sense of their emotional experiences. By increasing emotional awareness and expression, clients are empowered to heal relational wounds and move toward healthier patterns.

• Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) – SFT is a goal-oriented approach that emphasizes clients’ strengths, resources, and future possibilities. Instead of focusing on problems, it helps clients envision preferred outcomes and identify small, practical steps toward change.

• Attachment- and Trauma-Informed Care – This approach recognizes how early relationships and adverse experiences shape current functioning. It emphasizes safety, trust, and relational healing while promoting resilience and emotional growth.

235.00  / hourly 

I am a registered member with the College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP). My registration number is 7356. I receive ongoing supervision for therapy and assessment services from Registered Psychologists Hilda Huj, MA, RPsych

Hey there! My name is Ashley Ho, and I'm a Registered Provisional Psychologist with about five years of experience working within the mental health field. I provide individual, couples and group therapy at Savera Medical and Psychology. As a person and, consequently, as a therapist, I'm a big fan of humour and genuine human connection.

I am passionate about assisting clients with neurodivergence, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), complex trauma, anxiety, phobias, social anxiety, performance anxiety, depressive disorders, Bipolar Spectrum Disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD), Avoidant Personality Disorder (APD) and alcohol dependency.

Some of the common experiences I treat include intense fear, worry, avoidance, perfectionism, fear of failure, emotional disconnect, imposter syndrome, social difficulties, constricted feelings, disassociation (feeling as though life isn't real or disconnected from oneself), intellectualization, struggles in communication, binge eating, insecurity, impulsivity, underdeveloped life skills, difficulty with executive functioning, emotional dysregulation and more. 

I believe that mental health challenges are part of the human experience. I also know that a listening ear, skill-building, and processing obstacles can foster long-term change. As such, I can provide a nonjudgmental space and unconditional positive regard for you, even when you can't. 

I offer therapy services to older adolescents and adults of all ages. I offer individual, couples, and group therapy.

I am trained in multiple therapy frameworks including, but not limited to; 

• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT): DBT-Informed therapy is a subtype of CBT that helps clients build practical life skills respective to being present, being aware and literate of their emotions and needs, regulating and processing emotions, asserting boundaries, practicing interpersonal flexibility, social skills and conflict resolution skills, tolerating stress and extinguishing problematic behaviours 

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): CBT-Informed therapy helps clients who struggle with unhelpful thinking patterns become aware of maladaptive thinking and develop new, adaptive ways of understanding themselves, the world, other people and life as a whole. Challenging unhelpful thinking styles are supported to help in shaping adaptive behaviours, extinguish unhelpful behaviours and improve emotional well-being

• Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): CPT is a trauma processing therapy and a subtype of CBT. It postulates that people’s perceptions of themselves, the world, other people, and life as a whole are shaped by experiences. CPT also postulates that people have a natural drive to understand their environment in order to survive in it. Primary and secondary, or manufactured, emotions are also important concepts in CPT.  Primary emotions are the natural and immediate reactions we feel in response to an event. Typically, primary emotions are predictable because most people would feel similarly. For instance, when a pet dies, people usually feel sad. Secondary, or manufactured emotions, are the later feelings that arise after an event resulting from how we made sense of it. For instance, when a pet dies, a person feels sad (primary emotion), blames themselves for their pet’s death and then feels guilt and shame (secondary emotions). How we make sense of a traumatic event can keep us stuck in trauma and PTSD. CPT allows clients to experientially work through the impact and unhelpful thought patterns of trauma to relieve symptoms of PTSD and related conditions such as anxiety and depression. 

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Enhanced (CBT-E): CBT-E is a subtype of CBT that helps clients struggling with different types of disordered behaviours. It involves becoming mindfully aware of eating behaviours and their associated emotions, thoughts, urges, and behaviours. Greater insight into the process of disordered eating and necessary intervention skills allow clients to make changes sensitive to their individual needs. 

• Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART): ART is a neurocognitive therapy procedure that helps clients who struggle with different disorders including, but not limited to, PTSD, trauma, OCD, anxiety, low self-esteem, substance and process addictions, chronic pain and more. ART combines imaginal exposure (i.e. visualizing a challenge) and eye movement. Eye movement is an evidenced-based technique that helps clients process stuck experiences using their whole brain. It helps to connect what clients feel with what they know, achieving a more balanced and whole-minded perspective on difficult issues. ART may be suitable for clients who are less talkative, verbally expressive, strong visualizers, or experience considerable physical symptoms.   

• Gottman Couples Therapy: Gottman couples therapy is based on Sound House Relationship Theory. From a Gottman lens, conflict and negative emotionality are natural parts of interpersonal relationships, and how such matters are handled is what really matters. Couples first complete a comprehensive relationship assessment and then build tools to help manage the day-to-day chaos, obstacles and immediate crises that threaten the relationship’s safety and ability to move forward. Couples are then guided through building a foundation of friendship, learning how to manage conflict effectively, managing core difficulties and then creating shared goals and meaning for their future.  

Gottman Therapy is appropriate for many couples, including healing from infidelity. Gottman is not an appropriate choice for couples actively engaged in ongoing extramarital affairs, however. Additionally, the Gottman method values transparency, and the therapist is prohibited from keeping secrets from the other partner. Gottman is also not an appropriate therapy service for couples experiencing domestic violence. Instead, individual therapy is recommended. 

• Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy (ERP): ERP is also informed by CBT. It is suitable for clients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Agoraphobia, Specific Phobia, Panic Disorder and Social Anxiety. ERP involves different kinds of exposure (imaginal, interceptive, in-vivo, etc.) and challenges clients to change their relationship with fear and anxiety. Typically, clients who complete ERP can expect varying levels of anxiety reduction. In rare instances, an estimated 4% of clients may not experience a reduction in anxiety but can still benefit from improved ways of tolerating and managing distress. 

210.00 / hourly 

I am a regulated member of the College of Alberta Psychologists. My registration number is P7127.  I receive therapy supervision services from Pamela Thompson,  Registered Psychologist, and assessment supervision services from Dr. Tracy Muth, Registered Psychologist.