Melisha Franks

Psychologist

“I provide Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy for couples seeking to overcome their challenges and increase healthy communication, repair the attachment bond, and increase emotional and sexual intimacy. I support individuals healing from grief and loss, abandonment and rejection, and with other life transitions.”

About Me

I am a Registered Psychologist in Medicine Hat, Alberta. I provide counselling for individuals navigating grief and loss, conflict, betrayal, trauma, and life transitions. I support couples seeking to overcome conflict, communication issues, and infidelity to repair and learn new communication skills while also nurturing intimacy and connection. I offer group therapy for individuals and couples: Empowerment Lab to learn skills for communication and boundaries; LIFFT for women who have experienced betrayal trauma, rejection and abandonment, and relational loss; Braving Grief and Loss for those who have lost a loved one; Fearless Awakening for women who are ready to transition into new life stages; and Fierce Couples Intensives for couples ready to dive deeply into relationship change.

Approach

When couples or individuals come seeking deeper connection, clarity, or relief from loss, our work begins with gentle curiosity and compassion. Whether you meet with me in my Medicine Hat office or online anywhere in Alberta, I offer a calm, supportive space where you feel heard, understood, and guided forward. Together, we slow things down to understand what’s happening beneath the surface—your emotions, needs, and relationship patterns—while also creating practical steps you can use between sessions. We work with thoughts, emotions, and behaviours in ways that lead to real, lasting change over time. My approach is human-centred and trauma-informed, weaving together attachment-based work, emotionally focused interventions, nervous-system regulation, and parts-based understanding. The goal is to help you reconnect with yourself and others, build confidence and emotional safety, and move toward a life that feels more grounded, connected, and meaningful—so you can truly learn, heal, and thrive.

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Basic Information

Medicine Hat, Canada

Services

I provide couples counselling to help develop healthy relationship skills, increase emotional understanding of self and partner, to increase secure attachment bonds with each other, and to communicate through difficult conversations.

I support women healing from relationship abandonment trauma and rejection. I help women with their grieving journey, to build confidence, and to live an empowered life.

I provide therapeutic support for many other life transitions and to support clients through grief and loss, to overcome and manage anxiety and depression, and to heal from trauma.

Services Offered:

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Counseling
A form of talk therapy providing a safe, confidential space to explore feelings, thoughts, and behaviours with a trained professional.
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Divorce Counseling
Counselling for individuals or couples going through separation or divorce, addressing the emotional, practical, and relational dimensions.
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Relationship Counseling
Counselling for couples or partners focused on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and strengthening emotional connection.
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Group Therapy
Therapy conducted with a small group of people who share similar concerns, using peer interaction and diverse perspectives as part of the healing process.
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Stress Management
Techniques and strategies for managing the body and mind's response to excessive demands, including relaxation, cognitive restructuring, and lifestyle changes.
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Works With:

•Adults
•Couples
•Families
•Groups
•Individuals

Area of Expertise

Scope of Practice:

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Relationship Issues
Difficulties in romantic relationships, including communication problems, trust breakdowns, conflict patterns, or uncertainty about the relationship's future.
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Grief & Loss
The emotional, physical, and psychological response to the death of a loved one or another significant loss.
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Identity Issues
A person's sense of who they are, including their values, beliefs, roles, and self-perception, and the distress that arises when this sense is unclear, fragmented, or negative.
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Personal Development
The ongoing process of self-awareness, self-improvement, and reaching one's potential, pursued not because something is wrong but to live more fully.
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Relationship Counseling
Counselling for couples or partners focused on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and strengthening emotional connection.
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LGBTQI+ Support
The unique psychological experiences of LGBTQI+ individuals, including identity exploration, coming out, discrimination, minority stress, and relationship dynamics.

Professional Title:

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Psychologist
A professional trained to assess and treat mental health conditions using evidence-based psychological methods.

Qualifications

University of Lethbridge

Registrations

College of Alberta Psychologists

Psychologist

Service Area

Keys to Hope Counselling Services

In-person & Online

Medicine Hat, Alberta

Canada