Rhian Wight - Canadian Certified Counsellor, Edmonton
About Rhian Wight, M.A., C.C.C.., Canadian Certified Counsellor
Certified in CBT for Insomnia
EMDR trained therapist
Rhian is a warm and dedicated counsellor with nearly a decade of experience helping people through life’s toughest transitions, such as divorce, job loss, family challenges, or recovering for personal injury and motor vehicle accidents.
She combines strength-based approaches with solution-focused therapy to guide her clients toward clarity and calm, even in the most difficult times.
Rhian creates a safe, non-judgmental space where clients can process emotions, heal from trauma, and take back control of their lives. She has extensive experience supporting people navigating relationship breakups, anxiety, and the legal system, offering compassionate guidance that blends her personal journey with her professional expertise.
Areas You May Be Struggling With
Sometimes life does not just feel stressful. It feels overwhelming, disorienting, or like the life you expected has suddenly changed.
Maybe you are recovering from a car accident or injury and no longer feel like yourself. Maybe a relationship ended and the future you imagined disappeared. Maybe your body carries tension, pain, or trauma that has not responded to talking alone. Or maybe you are the strong one for everyone else, and you are exhausted.
If this feels familiar, you are in the right place.
Who Do I Help? Am I the Right Therapist for You?
Choosing a therapist is a personal decision. Feeling safe, understood, and comfortable with the person you are working with can meaningfully shape how effective therapy feels. Every clinician brings a different style, and the therapeutic relationship often influences progress as much as the specific tools or techniques used. It is important to pause and consider whether working together feels aligned with what you need.
As a therapist, I support individuals navigating significant life disruptions, including trauma, personal injury, chronic pain, relationship loss, on-going stress, grief, anxiety, and burnout.
Many of the people I work with are rebuilding after experiences that altered the course of their lives, such as motor vehicle accidents, workplace injuries, divorce, or prolonged periods of placing their needs last.
Our work goes beyond symptom management. It focuses on helping you regain a sense of stability, reconnect with yourself, and feel more grounded, clear, and in control of your life again.
We May Not Be a Good Fit If:
We may not be the best fit if you are looking for a highly structured CBT-only approach, want to spend hours processing trauma verbally (aka: ‘just talking about it’) without working toward practical resolution, or prefer exclusively in-person sessions (my sessions are available virtually or by telephone). Our work together will be collaborative, supportive, and focused on helping you feel steady, regain control, and reconnect with yourself, not just checking off a set of techniques or sitting in distress without guidance.
That said, every person’s needs and preferences are different. If you would like a therapy style that has some of the above elements, our client care service team can help you connect with one of our other therapists who may be a better match for your goals and needs. Our priority here at PsychSolutions, is making sure you feel comfortable, understood, and supported from the very first conversation.
Who Am I as a Person?
Before becoming a counsellor, I worked as a college director supporting students through crisis, trauma, and major life transitions. That experience, along with completing my Master’s in Counselling Psychology while raising a family, shaped how I approach therapy today. I believe healing needs to be practical, compassionate, and grounded in real life, not something that feels out of reach. My work often supports clients in a calm, supportive space where they can feel safe, understood, and genuinely cared for.
I also bring lived experience of what it is like to operate in constant “go mode,” focused on productivity, achievement, and pushing through exhaustion. I understand how easy it is to disconnect from your own needs and end up surviving rather than truly living. For those who recognize themselves in this pattern, I also support the process of slowing down and reconnecting with qualities like presence, intuition, emotional awareness, and steadiness.
Now living with both masculine and feminine energy in a more balanced way, I offer a whole experience as a therapist. Over time, I have learned the importance of balance between drive and rest, structure and softness, action and reflection. In my therapeutic work, I aim to bring that same balance into the room. I support clients in clarifying next steps, building practical strategies, and also holding space for uncertainty, emotion, and vulnerability when things feel overwhelming.
How Do I Help? My Therapy Style and What You Can Expect.
My approach is warm, practical, and direct. I do not believe in one size fits all therapy. Each person’s needs are different, and therapy should reflect that.
Some sessions focus on learning new skills and tools. Some are more conversational and reflective. At times, we may use body based approaches to help you better understand how stress and emotion are held in the nervous system. We also work with different parts of you, using principles from Internal Family Systems therapy, to explore inner conflict, strengths, and what is needed for change.
When appropriate, we may also use trauma focused approaches such as EMDR or Flash therapy to help the brain process experiences that are difficult to put into words. We move at your pace, while still maintaining forward movement. Outside of sessions, we also look at ways to bring supportive practices into daily life to help regulate the nervous system between appointments.
Healing is always approached in a whole person way. Your mind, body, relationships, and environment all play a role, and we work with all of them together.
If you are willing to make small, meaningful changes that support your overall wellbeing, you will often begin to notice shifts in how you feel and function. Therapy with me is not only about insight, but about practical tools you can actually use in everyday life. The goal is for what happens in session to translate into real change outside of therapy.
Many of my clients come in after being told there are no further options or after feeling stuck for a long time. What often becomes possible is meaningful change, including reduced pain, improved emotional wellbeing, stronger relationships, and a greater sense of stability. I have also supported clients through long periods of difficulty with fertility, where progress eventually became possible after years of feeling hopeless. A common reflection I hear is that they wish they had started sooner.
My focus is not only on helping you get through the present, but on helping you build something different for the future.
You may find this approach a good fit if you are looking for:
- A flexible, personalized approach rather than a rigid protoco
- Tools that support both the body and mind
- Honest, grounded conversations alongside practical strategie
- Real change that goes beyond symptom managemen
- Support in creating a healthier and more sustainable future
What You Might Notice After Working With Me
You may have tried therapy before. You’ve talked things through, gained insight, maybe even understood where things come from, and still feel like something is not shifting.
The anxiety comes back. The body stays tense. The exhaustion, the pain, the patterns in relationships, they linger even when you “know better.”
If that sounds familiar, there is nothing wrong with you. It usually just means the work has stayed at the level of thoughts, without fully including the body.
In this kind of therapy, we slow things down and pay attention to what your system has been carrying. Not just the story, but the stress response underneath it. The tightness, the shutdown, the restlessness, the patterns that show up automatically. Your body has been trying to adapt and protect you in the only ways it knew how.
When we start working with both the mind and the body together, things often begin to shift in ways people do not expect.
At first it can be small. A bit more space in your breathing. A moment where you do not feel as reactive. A sense of settling that feels unfamiliar but steady.
Then over time, other changes tend to follow. Sleep can improve. Pain can ease. Decisions feel less overwhelming. Relationships feel less strained. There is more space between what happens and how you respond.
Many people tell me it feels different from previous therapy experiences. Not because anyone is trying harder, but because the work is happening at a deeper level that includes the nervous system, not just conversation.
We look at the whole picture. Your body, your emotions, your thoughts, your relationships, and your day to day life. When one part starts to shift, other areas often begin to shift with it.
Change does not usually arrive all at once. It tends to build quietly over time, and then suddenly life feels a little more open than it did before.
You will not be pushed to relive everything or forced to explain more than you are ready for. The process is paced carefully, with attention to safety and stability, so your system can start to settle instead of stay on alert.
Over time, people often notice they feel more at home in their body. Their mind is quieter. Their reactions feel less intense. Life starts to feel less like something they are surviving and more like something they are actually living.
This work is not about fixing you. It is about helping you reconnect with parts of yourself that have been overwhelmed, overworked, or pushed aside, so you can start to move through life with more ease and steadiness.
Areas of Interest & Specialty
Client Focus
Cdn Armed Forces CAF | Caregivers | Couples | First Responders | Individual Adults | Individual Teens (15+ yrs) | Families | First Nations | RCMP | Refugee | Veterans
More specifically, I support:
- Adults rebuilding their lives after injury or trauma, including motor vehicle accidents, workplace injuries, and PTS
- People navigating divorce, relationship changes, or complicated grie
- Individuals living with chronic pain, anxiety, or ongoing stres
- People struggling with workplace stress, toxic work environments, or return to work after time awa
- People experiencing sleep difficulties that are affecting their overall quality of lif
- First responders, veterans, and helping professionals who carry significant emotional responsibilit
- Couples who want to improve communication, rebuild trust, and strengthen their connection
Service Language(s):
- English
Areas of Specialty
ADHD | Anxiety | Bipolar | Borderline BPD | Caregiver Support | Chronic Pain | Co-Parenting | CBT | CBTi for Insomnia | Chronic Pain | Depression | Divorce | EMDR | Couples | Grief | Individual Relationship Counselling (not Couples) | MVA Injury | OCD | Personal Injury | Return to Work | Trauma | Work Performance | Workplace Harassment