Counselling for complicated lives

Support for grief, trauma, overwhelm, relationship patterns,

compulsive coping, identity and the places where the past keeps showing up in the present.


Mira Black
Counselling Therapist

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• Grief and loss • Stress and overwhelm • Boundaries • •ATTACHEMENT PATTERNS •

• Compulsive habits and toxic coping •

• Food and body image • spiritual direction  •

• Creative blocks • performance anxiety •

 •  Relationship barriers • 

Mira Black, Counselling Therapist

ACTA #2702


When the past keeps showing up in the present


I offer confidential counselling for people navigating the places where cognition, achievement, intelligence, and determination are no longer enough to change what's not working or solve what still hurts


Shifts will begin as you find new perspectives, develop concrete goals, create nervous system support, increase mindfulness and measural behaviour changes.


Accelerated Resolution Therapy

For some clients, I also offer Accelerated Resolution Therapy, (A.R.T.) an approach designed to work more directly with distressing memories, images and emotional responses.


When appropriate, A.R.T. can offer another way of working with painful experiences, persistent emotional responses, and patterns that continue to affect your present life.


Bring to these session, the question you cannot seem to answer alone.

We can begin there.

READ MORE ABOUT MIRA BLACK COUNSELLING THERAPY

What counselling with me looks like


Clarity, connection, and change for complicated lives


Sessions are collaborative, practical and conversational.


We may work with thoughts, emotions, memories, nervous system responses, relationships, behavioural patterns and the meanings you have made from what has happened to you.
Together, we will clarify what you want to change, identify patterns that may be keeping you stuck, and develop concrete ways of responding differently outside the counselling room.
Depending on your needs, our work may also include mindfulness, creative approaches, emotional processing and Accelerated Resolution Therapy.



This is presence work made practical, tangible, and portable.

I will walk beside you through what feels uncomfortable, dark, unclear, overwhelming, or difficult to name, until more ease becomes possible.


  • Where are sessions offered?

    In person meeting are usually in my office located in Makenzie Town, Calgary AB. 


    Virtual sessions are availalbe. 


    I recomment at least the first A.R.T. process be in person if possible. 


    I have traveled out of province in support of those who wish to have a more in person or intensive retreat style individualized experienced. 

  • How long are sessions?

    Depending on what we are focused on session can last from 60 mins and up to 4 hours. We would discover and co create your specific program according to your needs, capacity and motivations. 

  • How much does it cost?

    I have a section on my website called "Investments" that break things down very clearly - check the navigation buttons, unders "Counselling" you will see the options to read more about my work history and the fee structures. 


    However, personalized packages can be cocreated to meet both our needs. 


    I am here to listen and support you towards increased abundance on many levels. 


    Book a discovery call. 

  • Insurance?

    In some cases client's are able to submit invoices for work with me: "Counselling Therapist" registered with The Assoiation of Counselling Therapsits of Alberta (ACTA) and I can support you navigate the system. 


    Let's talk about it.

  • Do you have a sliding scale?

    In some cases, I can offer a sliding scale for initial sessions. 


    We can talk about what you can afford, how I might support the overall increase in your capacity and if there is a skills trade option applicable for you.


    Let's talk. 

  • How quickly can someone usually begin?

    I am currenlty accepting new client's and sessions can usually be booked inside 1 or 2 week.


    I generally book in person A.R.T. clients Friday to Sunday. 


    Discovery calles, virutal sessions, assessment meetings and between session check in's can be accessed across the weekdays. 


     This does change from time to time however in our discovery call we can discover more about this question and more. 

  • What is Mira Music Member?

    Currently, I do not "sell" my art.


     It is gifted to all but it is also tender and raw and honours elements of musical empathy, open hearted vulnerabilites both mind and yours. 


    Concerts  and retreats are attended by invitation and though it's actually not difficult to find my public recordings, I have some private spaces where I process my writing and hone my craft with those who can witness with respect and maybe even love. 


    Ask me if you're curious to hear more. 

Meditation:



Not ready to book yet?  Spend 17 minutes with me across this guarded meditation.

Personalized meditation recordings can be created, just ask me how. 

"How can I help?

Through connection, intention, words, sounds, and attentive presence to your nervous system, we pick up what has been fragmented and work together until it begins to organize itself again.



Something in you already knows the way. Perhaps not yet as certainty, but as a quiet orientation, a pull toward what is truer, kinder, stronger and more alive.

Love,

Mira"

"NO BOX CAN DEFINE HER"

~HUFFINGTON POST

BLACK'S BLOG

Mental Health Smentalhealth!

By Mira Black • August 30, 2026
IT’S AN EXCLUSIVE CLUB OF SEVERAL BILLION

WAKE UP

By Mira Black • August 30, 2026
Wake up, you slumbering Life. You have grown too familiar with the lie that keeps you fed but never nourished. Too comfortable inside the status quo, that well-decorated room where nothing grows but everyone says, isn’t this enough? Wake up like the first time your lover smiles and something secret begins to unfold between my words and your hidden place. Once I have tasted the sound of your voice between my lips, it is almost as if Life itself might finally kiss me. Make a wish of me. Make a choice. Make a move. Say my name like you mean it and prove me wrong for believing I am unlovable, as if you could. As if Love would ever agree to become a witness against me. Still, this mind screams inside the body, pulling thought from thought, knot from knot, trying to solve the ache with another plan. Caught in the old mistake: confusing the chase for happiness with the courage to be alive. Empty hands reach for the sky, but the sky does not explain itself. Morning comes. Your eyes doubt. Your body knows. And there it is, the bloody contrast between who you are, what you want, and the life you keep pretending is close enough. At least your feet still tell the truth. One step. Then the staggering next. This is how waking comes. Not as a choir. Not as lightning. Not as someone finally choosing you. But as the unbearable mercy of seeing clearly what you can no longer betray. The pulse runs wild. The teeth rattle. The skin rises. The muscles strain against all the silence you trained them to carry. Hold on to the procession that pulled you from the soft grave of almost enough. Do not mistake the dream for freedom. Do not mistake the familiar for home. Do not mistake being wanted for being known. Listen. The song in your head hurts because it is true. And all you know for certain is this: you have not been honest in far too long. So wake up, you slumbering Life. Wake up before the lie learns your voice and starts calling itself Love.  ~ MIRA

Loving Attention

By Mira Black • July 2, 2026
I spent years trying to outrun the darkness. As though healing were a race. Then one ordinary morning I noticed my attention. How it kept returning to the same abandoned house. The same hand unwound from mine. Naked intimacies with fire, ignoring the burn. As though love were something I had to earn. The same cup where your lips last touched it. The same wound begging to become my only religion. No one told me then I was never responsible for the darkness laid upon me. Only for the quiet miracle as my attention remembers to love me as I am. Not to force. Not to run. Just... stay. The kind that sits beside the dark without becoming it. The kind that remembers there is more sky than storm. The kind that notices a bird improvising her song even while the heart is still breaking.  Perhaps awakening is nothing more mysterious than this. Love looking so gently at suffering until suffering forgets to follow me home. ~MIRA

Me Wanting

By Mira Black • June 12, 2026
Dedicated to a beautiful Soul walking beside me from across the veil.

Touched Everywhere

By Mira Black • June 12, 2026
Do not call me unattached because I have learned not to beg at every closing door. This heart has not become clean. It has become weathered. There are names I no longer say out loud that still change the temperature of my body. There are hands I have released that still arrive in dreams as if the soul keeps its own appointment book. I know how to pray without building a prison around the Beloved. I know how to open and still let the river move on. This did not come from holiness. It came from loss. From repetition. From standing in the aftermath with my nervous system on fire like a city skyline bright with lightning I have mistaken longing for prophecy. I have called absence care. I have watched my body reach for what my spirit had already surrendered. So no, I am not untouched. I am touched everywhere. By grief. By beauty. By the unbearable intimacy of being human with no guarantee that love will stay where I place it. Still, I refuse the immaculate heart. Let me be marked. Let tenderness leave evidence. Let love ruin the small false self that thought safety meant never opening again. At three in the morning when memory walks through me wearing someone else’s voice, I do not call it weakness. I call it proof. Something entered. Something mattered. Something sacred found a door in me and left it open. ~MIRA #brave #canadian #poet
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