Emotional Dysregulation

Emotional Dysregulation Therapy in Edmonton

When Your Reactions Feel Bigger Than You—and Harder to Control

If you feel like your emotions are always just beneath the surface—or worse, like they control you—you're not alone. Emotional dysregulation shows up in ways many people don’t immediately recognize:

• Explosive reactions followed by shame

• Shutting down when overwhelmed

• Overthinking, people-pleasing, or perfectionism

• Intense guilt or panic over small mistakes

• Feeling “too much,” “too sensitive,” or “never enough”
  
  

At ShiftGrit, we see emotional dysregulation not as a flaw, but as a pattern your brain learned to survive.

Why It Happens—and Why It Feels So Automatic

The emotional part of your brain (what we call the Walnut Brain) is designed to keep you safe. But when it’s trained by past experiences to expect rejection, failure, or danger, it begins to overreact to everyday stressors—or shuts down entirely to protect you from pain.

That’s not your fault. And it’s not just something you can “talk through.”

How Our Therapy in Edmonton Helps

Using our identity-level therapy model, we help you retrain your emotional system—not just your thoughts. Our approach includes:

• Mapping your patterned reactions

• Identifying the limiting beliefs that keep the threat system firing

• Reconditioning the brain’s emotional responses at the source

You don’t need to keep bracing for life. You can learn to feel emotions without being ruled by them.

Book Emotional Dysregulation Therapy in Edmonton

We offer in-person and secure virtual therapy from our Westmount clinic, serving Edmonton and surrounding communities like St. Albert, Sherwood Park, and Spruce Grove.

Start identifying your emotional patterns—and stop being overwhelmed by them.

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