Kassia Bouffard, Mental Health Therapist

Kassia brings over a decade of experience supporting children, youth, and families across educational, clinical, recreational, and home-based settings. These experiences shaped her appreciation for the impact of early relationships, family dynamics, and environment on emotional development and mental health, and ultimately led her to the field of counselling.

In addition to her background in mental health, Kassia has spent many years in the English equestrian world as a competitive rider and coach. Working closely with both horses and riders taught her patience, attunement, resilience, and the importance of connection and trust — qualities she now carries into the therapy room. Kassia is committed to building authentic, collaborative relationships with clients and approaches therapy with warmth, curiosity, humour, and compassion. She believes meaningful healing happens when people feel genuinely understood, safely challenged, and empowered to reconnect with themselves on their own terms, while creating a validating space where clients can explore the connection between physical health, emotions, identity and overall well-being. 

She works with individuals (10+) navigating anxiety, depression, ADHD, emotional regulation difficulties, perfectionism, people-pleasing, self-worth concerns, relationship and family stress, grief, identity exploration, and body image concerns. Kassia is passionate about working with athletes navigating performance pressure, burnout, injury recovery, perfectionism, and identity within sport, especially in equine sports and women’s mental health, including areas such as PMDD/PCOS, fertility and reproductive concerns, postpartum mental health, and supporting individuals through perimenopause and menopause.  

• Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (MACP) — Yorkville University, (2026) 
• EMDR Trained (2026) 
• Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) Intensive Training for PTSD & Related Conditions — PESI Canada (2026) 
• ACT for Behavioral Addictions: A Shame-Free Approach for Helping Clients Understand Triggers, Break Compulsive Patterns, and Build Psychological Flexibility — PESI Canada (2026) 
• Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a Minor in French — Saint Mary's University (2021) 
• Level 3 Early Childhood Educator & Child Development Supervisor — Alberta 
• Diploma in Child and Youth Care — Cambrian College (2017)