Revolution Therapy & Wellness

Revolution Therapy & Wellness Trauma-informed, 2SLGBTQIA+ affirming, neurodiversity-affirming, kink/CNM affirming therapy and wellness in Calgary.

Operating from a multidisciplinary, harm-reduction, and s*x positive foundation, always.

Less paperwork. More healing.Direct billing is available at Revolution Therapy & Wellness for select insurance providers...
02/20/2026

Less paperwork. More healing.

Direct billing is available at Revolution Therapy & Wellness for select insurance providers, including Sun Life, Alberta Blue Cross, Medavie Blue Cross, Telus Health eClaims, and Greenshield.

Coverage and eligible providers vary by clinician and plan. We recommend confirming your benefits before your first session.

Ready to get started? Book a free 20-minute consult:
Www.revolutiontw.janeapp.com

Family can mean:• Chosen family• Found family• Blended family• Poly/CNM constellations• Single-parent homes• Q***r kinsh...
02/16/2026

Family can mean:

• Chosen family
• Found family
• Blended family
• Poly/CNM constellations
• Single-parent homes
• Q***r kinship
• Neurodivergent households
• Estranged and rebuilding
• Just you and your cat

For some, today is brunch and board games.
For others, it is boundaries and recovery.

Both are real.

For many neurodivergent and 2SLGBTQIA+ adults, family meant learning to:

• Mask early
• Stay small
• Over-function
• Translate yourself constantly
• Survive dynamics that were never named

At Revolution Therapy & Wellness, we work with:

• Adult children unpacking emotionally immature parenting
• Q***r and trans folks navigating non-affirming systems
• Neurodivergent adults processing masking and burnout
• Couples redefining what family looks like
• Poly/CNM systems building intentional structure
• Clients learning boundary repair without self-abandonment

Family may have shaped you.
You still get to define what belonging looks like now.

If Family Day brings warmth, grief, relief, anger, or clarity, we hold space for all of it.

🔗 Book at revolutiontw.janeapp.com
📍 In-person in Calgary | Virtual across Alberta

Therapy Room Available: Wednesdays + SaturdaysWe have a beautiful therapy room available for rent two days per week at R...
02/15/2026

Therapy Room Available: Wednesdays + Saturdays

We have a beautiful therapy room available for rent two days per week at Revolution Therapy & Wellness. This is a shared office space with Dr. Shari Derksen, a s*x therapist and s*xologist.

The Details:
∙ $100/day
∙ Wednesdays and Saturdays
∙ Fully furnished, private therapy room
∙ Access to shared amenities (kitchen, waiting area, accessibility features)
∙ Unconventional, warm environment that rejects sterile clinical aesthetics

Who We’re Looking For:
Radically s*x-positive, anti-oppressive, 2SLGBTQIA+-affirming practitioners who center equity-deserving communities including CNM/polyamorous, kink-affirming, s*x workers, disabled, and neurodivergent folks.

Our Non-Negotiables:
We do not rent to practitioners who hold anti-trans beliefs, pathologize consensual s*xuality/relationships, or maintain conservative/s*x-negative views incompatible with harm reduction and liberation-focused care.

Ready to Join Us?
Email your interest to shari@shariderksen.com and CC admin@revolutiontw.com with:
1. Your discipline/credentials
2. Your practice focus and populations you serve
3. Why Revolution feels aligned for you
4. Confirmation that you affirm our values

***All applicants will be screened for fit.

📍 2505 17 Ave SW, Calgary, AB

When you forget to take your Vyvanse and immediately realize you are operating without adult supervision.You open your l...
02/15/2026

When you forget to take your Vyvanse and immediately realize you are operating without adult supervision.

You open your laptop to work.

Now you are:

• reorganizing your entire Google Drive
• online shopping “just to look”
• googling something deeply irrelevant
• halfway through cleaning something you did not mean to start
• standing in the kitchen holding a spoon
• texting three people back at once
• and absolutely not doing the one thing you sat down to do

You walk into a room.

Blank.

You pick up your phone.

Thirty-seven minutes disappear.

You are suddenly starving.
You eat.
Now you are sleepy.
Now you are overstimulated.
Now you are questioning every life choice you have ever made.

Executive function has left the building.

ADHD is not laziness.

It’s having a brain that says “yes” to everything and “no” to structure.

If today feels chaotic, scattered, loud, or like you are wrestling your own nervous system…

You are not broken.
You are not incompetent.
You just forgot your scaffolding.

Eat something.
Hydrate.
Pick one task.
Lower the bar to the floor.
Survive the day.

Revolution Therapy & Wellness
Neurodivergent-affirming. Even on chaotic days.

What is love?It’s not a group chat debrief.It’s not your friends saying, “I mean… if you’re happy?”It’s not refreshing y...
02/14/2026

What is love?

It’s not a group chat debrief.
It’s not your friends saying, “I mean… if you’re happy?”
It’s not refreshing your phone like it owes you money.

Love should feel like:

“Oh.”
There you are.
I can exhale.

It should feel steady and electric.
Exciting, not destabilizing.
Playful, not performative.
Hot, not high-alert.

Whether you’re monogamous, polyamorous, dating multiple people, deeply partnered, casually vibing, or spectacularly single, Valentine’s Day is not a referendum on your worth.

It’s a vibe check.

Do you feel chosen?
Do you feel respected?
Do you feel like yourself?
Do you feel safe enough to be weird?

Because the right energy does not make you spiral.
It makes you head bob.

This Valentine’s Day, dramatically point at what makes your nervous system say yes.

Everyone else?

You can’t get in.

💘
Revolution Therapy & Wellness
Bring the energy.

*Free Tax & Bookkeeping Support for Alberta Therapists*Meet “Angela”—a custom AI assistant from our resident Tech Witch ...
02/11/2026

*Free Tax & Bookkeeping Support for Alberta Therapists*

Meet “Angela”—a custom AI assistant from our resident Tech Witch CEO Madelaine, who adapts to your brain and helps you tackle the financial stuff we all avoid.

Running a private practice means you’re not just a clinician—you’re also your own accountant, bookkeeper, and tax strategist. And let’s be honest: most of us hate this part.

Meet Angela. She won’t replace your accountant (please still hire one), but she will help you:

🙌🏻 Get organized before your accountant meeting
💸 Identify potential deductions you might be missing
🤷🏼‍♀️Understand GST basics without the jargon
💪🏽Track income and expenses with less overwhelm
🧠 Ask smarter questions when you do talk to a professional

Here’s what makes Angela different:

She’s designed so you can ask any type of question, no matter where you’re struggling.
🚧 Is your question “omg help where do I start?” Angela’s got you.
🐾 Are you neurodivergent and need things simply laid out step by step? Tell her.
🏋🏽‍♂️Do you need a pep talk before diving into receipts? She can do that too.
👶🏼Want her to explain GST like you’re five? Just ask.
Let Angela know how you want support, and she will help.

Think of her as a supplementary resource—a starting point that makes the stuff we all avoid a little less terrible.

Built by Revolution Therapy & Wellness and created by our resident Tech Witch CEO Madelaine, Angela reflects our values: accessibility, transparency, and mutual aid. She’s completely free to use.

💝Optional Support:
If Angela saves you time, stress, or money, consider contributing to our Radical Access Fund (RAF) —a sliding-scale therapy fund that ensures equitable care for clients who can’t afford full fees.

📖 Learn more: https://revolutiontherapyandwellness.com/radical-access-fund

🎁 Contribute: https://revolutiontherapyandwellness.com/radical-access-fund

🔗 Meet Angela: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-679d38dac9d08191bad0107dd00fdca8-angela

📌 Fine Print:
Angela provides educational guidance and organizational support. She is a supplementary resource and does not replace advice from a licensed accountant or CRA consultation. Always verify tax strategies with a professional before filing.

Revolutionary Mental Health & Wellness in Calgary: Inclusive therapy for 2SLGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, polyamorous & kink communities

⚠️ “Trauma-informed” is everywhere now.You’ll see it on therapist websites, Instagram bios, intake forms.But here’s the ...
02/10/2026

⚠️ “Trauma-informed” is everywhere now.

You’ll see it on therapist websites, Instagram bios, intake forms.
But here’s the thing: it doesn’t always mean what you think it means.

At its core, being trauma-informed means recognizing that trauma can shape how people relate, cope, and show up — and that care needs to reflect that.

But a lot of the time?
It stops at theory.
📌 No somatic work
📌 No understanding of systemic harm
📌 No space for freeze, shutdown, or dissociation

Quick tip if you’re looking for a therapist:
When you see “trauma-informed,” ask them what that means in their practice.
They should be able to tell you how that shows up — not just that they took a course.

And if you’re a therapist using that label?
It’s more than a tagline. It should be a living, breathing part of your work.

At Revolution Therapy & Wellness, trauma-informed is just the foundation.
We go further:
💥 Embodied
💥 Identity-affirming
💥 Anti-oppressive
💥 Decolonized
💥 Rooted in relationship and consent

Because “informed” isn’t enough — care should be felt in the body, not just stated on a form.
SNS. (sorry-not-sorry!)

📍 Calgary, Alberta
🌐 revolutiontw.com


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Radical Freedom™ for CNM-Affirming Therapy TrainingSpring 2025 | In Person | Killarney | 20 spots onlyHave you ever fumb...
02/10/2026

Radical Freedom™ for CNM-Affirming Therapy Training

Spring 2025 | In Person | Killarney | 20 spots only

Have you ever fumbled through a session with a CNM client, wondering if you were doing more harm than good?

Struggled to tell the difference between “poly under duress” and a client genuinely choosing something outside monogamy?

Watched a client spiral in shame about jealousy—and realized you were reinforcing that shame instead of deconstructing it?

Referred someone out because you didn’t feel ready, then kicked yourself for abandoning them?

Been doing CNM-affirming work for years but still catch yourself pathologizing hierarchies, missing coercion that “looks consensual,” or romanticizing polyamory as inherently more evolved?

Or maybe you’re poly yourself and realize that doesn’t automatically make you a better therapist for CNM clients?

Here’s the truth: our training taught us to pathologize relationship structures outside monogamy. And whether you’ve never worked with a CNM client or you’ve been doing this for a decade, harm happens when we don’t interrupt those reflexes.

Why This Is Different

Most CNM training is basic terminology or surface-level “competence.” This isn’t that.

Radical Freedom™ is the only framework in Canada that integrates trauma-informed, decolonial, and anti-oppressive practice specifically for CNM-affirming therapy. It doesn’t just teach you what polyamory is—it teaches you how to interrupt the colonial reflexes that make monogamy the default in every clinical tool you use.

This is experiential, collaborative, and participatory. You’ll work in pairs and small groups, consult on real scenarios, audit your own intake forms, and learn alongside therapists equally committed to getting this right.

You’ll leave with a clinically rigorous framework and tools you can use Monday morning to

- Deconstruct shame without pathologizing clients’ relational choices
- Assess for consent vs. coercion without defaulting to “poly = trauma response”
- Name power dynamics (couples privilege, hierarchy, unicorn hunting) without flattening complexity
- Support clients through jealousy, insecurity, and conflict without treating these as evidence that CNM “isn’t working”
- Chart and document ethically under PIPEDA without outing or creating risk

No lectures. No certificates. No coddling. Just honest, embodied learning.

Join the waitlist: https://forms.gle/CrZ8sK6kB9MJmb4M6

Regular: $250 + GST | Sliding Scale: $200 + GST | Student: $150 + GST

Early access goes to the waitlist first. Let’s build this capacity together.

What You’re Signing Up For: A 3-hour, participation-heavy intensive that refuses to coddle, perform allyship, or treat CNM competence as optional. A proprietary clinical framework (Radical Freedom™) built on decolonial ethics, trauma-informed practice, and consent as foundational—not aspiratio...

If you’ve tried therapy before and it didn’t land,that wasn’t a personal failure.It was likely a mismatch.Neurodivergent...
02/08/2026

If you’ve tried therapy before and it didn’t land,
that wasn’t a personal failure.

It was likely a mismatch.

Neurodivergent folks, queer/trans folks, trauma survivors, and multidimensional humans don’t need to “try harder.”
They need care that actually fits.

We’re currently building a human-centered therapist matching process that prioritizes:
• neurodivergent-affirming care
• trauma-informed, consent-based practice
• real clinical fit, not checkbox sorting

It’s not live yet, but it’s coming.

If this would help you or someone you know, comment “UNICORN”

When you find the right therapist for you, for the right reasons and areas to grow, it can truly feel like MAGIC!

our brain already knows how to heal. Sometimes it just needs the right kind of help.Trauma doesn't live in your thoughts...
02/06/2026

our brain already knows how to heal. Sometimes it just needs the right kind of help.

Trauma doesn't live in your thoughts. It lives in your body. In fragmented memories that haven't been processed. In reactions that feel automatic and out of control.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) helps your brain do what it's designed to do: integrate those stuck memories so they stop running your life.

What makes EMDR different:
It's active, not passive. You stay in control while your therapist guides the process. Through bilateral stimulation (eye movements, tapping, or sounds), your brain reprocesses trauma so it feels like the past, not the present.

What it treats:
Trauma and PTSD, anxiety and panic, phobias, chronic pain, grief and loss.

What to expect:
Most people notice shifts within a few sessions. No endless retelling. Just relief.

Meet our EMDR-trained therapists:

Jesseca DeMone, MC | Registered Provisional Psychologist
Now offering 90-minute EMDR sessions. Specializes in trauma, attachment wounds, intimacy, neurodivergence, and s*xual health.

Natalie Siu-Mitton, MACP, BSc. | Registered Psychologist & Registered Dietitian
EMDR for trauma, disordered eating, chronic illness, and body image healing.

Your healing doesn't have to take forever.
📩 Book a free 20-minute consult: revolutiontw.janeapp.com

Meet Christina Hong: Your CNM-Affirming TherapistTraditional therapy often treats non-monogamy like a problem to solve. ...
02/04/2026

Meet Christina Hong: Your CNM-Affirming Therapist

Traditional therapy often treats non-monogamy like a problem to solve. Christina treats it like what it is: a valid choice that deserves skilled, affirming support.

As a Registered Provisional Psychologist specializing in consensual non-monogamy, Christina holds space for folks opening their hearts beyond traditional scripts. She brings warmth, tenderness, and respect to the complexity of multiple partnerships, boundary negotiation, and relationship evolution.
You don’t need fixing. You need a therapist who gets it.

Christina works with individuals navigating:
∙ Opening up established relationships
∙ Jealousy, insecurity, and comparison
∙ Communication breakdowns between partners
∙ Balancing multiple connections
∙ Healing from relationship trauma
∙ Identity exploration within CNM contexts

Her approach is calm, compassionate, and grounded in the reality that love doesn’t have to look one way to be real.
Currently accepting new clients.

Book your free 20-minute consultation at revolutiontw.com

02/03/2026

Late night Dexter adventures 😸

A long day of work deserved some cozy hangs at the collective, followed by treats of course.

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