Dayna Mullen
Registered Psychologist
M.Sc., RPsych
*Accepting new clients
* Virtual only
*Individuals 14+, Families & Couples
Relationship therapy that actually goes somewhere.
About Me
What I won't do is keep you stuck in your story without helping you out of it. I want you to thrive in your life, not just get by, and definitely not suffer. Whether you're a couple in real trouble or an individual trying to find your footing, expect a therapist who's playful, honest, direct, and not afraid to say the thing that needs saying. If you're willing to put in the effort, I'll help you find a way out of seemingly impossible places.
A lot of the couples I work with feel like their marriage has become a set of golden handcuffs to the family. The shared vision that first pulled you together built a beautiful life, and now you're stuck inside it. You don't know who you are outside the marriage and the kids. You're scared to be alone. You're scared to lose your children. So you stay, and the marriage keeps thinning out around you, and you don't quite know what to call any of it.
Here's what I see, over and over. Somewhere after the kids arrived, the shared vision ran out of road. You'd never actually built a vision for the marriage past the kids, so you each turned toward what was right in front of you. One of you turned toward the children. The other turned toward work. The single bubble you'd built split into two separate ones, and you stopped finding each other inside them. You know your kids inside out: their owner's manuals, their micro-expressions, the way they breathe when something's wrong. But you've lost the owner's manual for each other. One of you is the partner still reaching, sharp with frustration, tired of feeling alone in your own marriage. The other has gone underground, somewhere numb and far. Neither of you knows how to handle the other anymore.
If any of that sounds like either of you, you're exactly the kind of couple I'm here for.
I'm obsessed with all things relationships. The good ones, the painful ones, the ones held together by love and the ones held together by habit. What happens between two people, what makes it work, what breaks it, what brings it back: that's the most interesting territory in the world to me, and I've spent my career working there.
I work with Couples through everything that can break a relationship, and everything that rebuilds one
The Ruptures
Affairs, Deal Breakers, Separation, Divorce
The Slow Erosion
Distance, Disconnection, Fighting, Criticism, Poor Communication
Boundary Work
Managing in-laws, Ex-spouses, Kids, Finances, Addictions, Substance use
Big Life Transitions
Pre-marital therapy, New baby, Moves, Illness, Parenting conflicts, Polyamory and open relationships
Sexual Differences & Intimacy
Trusting one another, and finding time
Rebuilding
Trust, Safety, Security, and the Couple Bubble
(having each other's backs and knowing each other deeply again)
Individuals working on:
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Depression, anxiety, and trauma
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Family of origin, childhood and current
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Relationships: with yourself, with others, and the patterns that keep showing up
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Attachment and finding your way to secure, healthy connection
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Life after a relationship ends: processing the loss, rebuilding the self
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Life transitions, aging, and reconnecting with who you are now
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Clarity on work, direction, meaning, and purpose
How I work
I draw from PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy), Emotion-Focused Therapy, IFS (Internal Family Systems), CBT, attachment-focused work, somatic approaches, mindfulness, and trauma-informed care. I'm also trained in Reiki, which sometimes lives in the room and sometimes doesn't, depending on what you're bringing.
In plain language: I pay close attention to what's happening between you, inside each of you, and underneath your words, because that's where the real story lives. And we won't get stuck telling that story without finding the way out.
My Path Here
Early in my career I worked in forensics, with mandated sexual offenders, sex addiction, and incarcerated women. Important work. But I watched my clients leave treatment and go home to abusive marriages and broken families that nobody was helping repair. The most consequential part of their lives, the relationships, was the part no therapy had touched. So I went back to school, earned my Master of Science in Marital and Family Therapy, and built a career around the territory I now believe matters most: how people love each other, hurt each other, and find their way back. I've worked in mental health organizations across Calgary and now run a private practice specializing in couples and relationship therapy.
Credentials
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Registered Psychologist, Alberta (#3595)
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Psychologist Master, Vermont USA (#047.0133697)
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Master of Science in Marital and Family Therapy, Loma Linda University
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PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy), Level 3 Certified
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IFS (Internal Family Systems), Level 1
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Inner Child Parts Work, Level 1
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Reiki, Levels 1 & 2
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Professional Life Coach Certification
Outside the Office
Black coffee, milk chocolate, and 90s music loud. Pilates, hiking, and as much time outside as the day will give me. My husband, kids, parents, and close friends are my whole world. I'm an only child, a self-confessed neat freak (thanks Mom), and most days off you'll find me with a podcast in my ears, on a trail, or watching one of my kids play their sport. People who know me would call me playful, kindhearted, outgoing, and someone who loves to make people laugh. Life is for living, and the work I do is in service of that.
