About HeartConnect
Encourage, Empower, Engage
HeartConnect Psychology and Healing empowers you to thrive in all areas of life. We believe meaningful change happens through connection and collaboration, creating a safe, inclusive space where you’re honored as the expert of your own life. Our counselors guide you to uncover your authentic self and build upon your strengths and resilience, using professional guidance to help you reach your goals.
We see each person as the gardener of their own life, with an inner garden of potential and beauty. Life’s challenges may obscure this garden, but we help you cultivate it through evidence-based practices like EMDR, Hypnosis, CBT, ACT, and more. Our strength-based, trauma-informed approach honors your unique journey.
As your inner garden blooms, it enriches your relationships, career, and community. We celebrate multicultural experiences, offering culturally informed care and integrating spirituality for those who seek it. We guide you in nurturing your garden towards a meaningful and empowered life. Your garden awaits its next season of growth—together, let us nurture it.
Our Values
At HeartConnect, we foster trust, understanding, and meaningful connections, empowering individuals to embrace their strengths, lead fulfilling lives, and grow holistically with honesty, professionalism, and integrity.
Vision Statement
HeartConnect envisions a supportive community where individuals connect deeply, embrace authenticity, and thrive holistically, fostering resilience, purpose, and transformative hope.
Mission Statement
HeartConnect provides compassionate, evidence-based psychological care, strengthening relationships, fostering resilience, and promoting self-discovery to help clients embrace growth and achieve fulfillment.
Our Team
Maggie is a Registered Psychologist with the College of Alberta Psychologists. With a diverse background as a quality control chemist and financial analyst, she transitioned into counseling psychology after earning her Master’s degree from Providence Theological Seminary. Maggie has over 8 years of experience working with individuals, couples, families, and groups through Alberta Health Services and the Calgary Counselling Centre.
She practices integrative psychotherapy grounded in Attachment Theory, enriched with evidence-based modalities such as CBT, EMDR, ACT, EFT, and more. Fluent in English and Mandarin, Maggie fosters a welcoming, compassionate, and inclusive environment, prioritizing therapeutic relationships built on care and connection.
As an immigrant, she understands cultural integration challenges and helps clients navigate transitions effectively. Married for over 36 years with one son, Maggie enjoys cooking, traveling, writing, and volunteering. She also facilitates marriage enrichment retreats and mental health seminars to give back to her community.
- Attachment Therapy
- Neuropsychotherapy
- EMDR
- Hypnosis
- Emotion-Focused Therapy
- Couple Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Therapy
- Family Therapy
- Existential Therapy
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gestalt Therapy
Dan provides a warm and calm presence to support you through various changes and challenges. He is committed to walking beside you on a collaborative therapeutic journey that can bring more ease, wholeness, and confidence to your life.
He approaches counselling and healing holistically, balancing personal transformation with interpersonal growth. Through various modalities, he supports you in uncovering unconscious beliefs and stories that might have kept you stuck unknowingly and empowers you for a renewed sense of self. These therapeutic changes are sustained with the family and cultural factors in mind, with psychoeducation and skills training as integral to making lasting changes.
One of Dan’s major offerings is addressing personal and intergenerational traumas. He has been trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), which taps into the body’s innate neurological capacity to reprocess traumatic memories and highlights your resilience. He is also learning Somatic Experiencing (SE), which offers a body-based alternative to trauma work. By deeply respecting the body’s capacity to reprocess, one can safely explore the residual effects of trauma in the present moment. Intergenerational difficulties like loss, persecution, abuse, and neglect may have lasting effects across the generations, which makes us repeat patterns we see our family members make. These unconscious patterns can be made clear through the modality of Family Constellation, in which Dan has received multiple trainings.
Dan offers a unique blend of personal and systemic therapeutic journeys. His unique approach is made possible by his own life experiences, such as growing up in a collectivistic culture like China, immigrating to Canada at age 12, various professional experiences (engineering, software development, education, entrepreneurship), navigating his neurodivergence in ADHD/ADD, and his experiences of facilitating and assisting in various meditation and therapeutic workshops and retreats since 2015.
“One of my core memories that eventually inspired me to be a counsellor was in 2016, when I was assisting my mentor in a 13-day intensive healing retreat. She was 68 at the time. In the last few days of the retreat, I had been worried about her health as she had been experiencing body aches from the intensity she put forth every day. On the last night, it was late. We were beyond our scheduled time. Still, she gave everyone the utmost attention even everyone is showing visibly tiredness. Someone stood to share. It was clear they were sharing a dream but from a place of hurt. My mentor leaned over slightly and asked what the best way would be to respond. While I still caught up with wanting her to take care of her health, she stood with a determined and clear stance. She spoke through her actions at that moment. Her actions said, “You Matter.” Her actions spoke, “I am here to do earnest work with people.”
Both of these messages landed deeply with me. One was the message of love, “You matter.” The other on what it means to be a good counsellor. Yes, I want to see you succeed, and I might have the right tools and be the right counsellor for you. So don’t give up yet. We can help.
Dan holds a master’s degree in counselling and is a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC). He is currently working towards additional educational requirements to move towards being a provisional psychologist in Alberta. Dan is currently accepting clients for individuals (ages ten and up), couples, and families.
- EMDR (trauma work - Neurological)
- Somatic Experience
- couples therapy (Gottman Method)
- family therapy
- Family Constellation
- Gestalt Therapy
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Transactional Analysis and Ego state work
- Narrative Therapy
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT)
- Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Mindness-based therapy