Carey Best, M.A.

Registered Psychologist

Carey Best, M.A. is a registered psychologist and associate at Crossroads. She helps people reconnect with themselves, build confidence, and navigate the challenges of relationships and emotions. Her work often focuses on self-esteem, anxiety, emotional regulation, boundaries, and the hidden pressures shaped by gender roles and social expectations.

Carey supports clients in exploring how early messages about identity and emotion affect their current struggles. She helps them gain clarity, set healthy boundaries, and rebuild self-trust. Whether you are facing life transitions, anxiety, people-pleasing, or feeling stuck in relationships, Carey’s approach creates space to shift old patterns, strengthen your voice, and live with greater alignment.

Her style is warm, compassionate, and genuine. She incorporates humour when appropriate and is direct when it supports growth and change. In her practice, clients are encouraged to show up exactly as they are—without judgment or pressure to have it all figured out.

Carey takes an integrative, trauma-informed approach, drawing on evidence-based methods such as:

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Emotion-Focused Therapy
• Mindfulness practices

She tailors her work to meet each client’s unique needs.

Carey works especially well with clients who are:

• Struggling with self-doubt or inner criticism
• Feeling anxious or overwhelmed by expectations
• Exploring how gender norms affect relationships and emotions
• Learning to set boundaries without guilt
• Wanting to live more in line with their values and voice

She holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University. Carey looks forward to supporting you on your journey.

Client focus: Adult Individuals seeking support with anxiety, emotional regulation, or trauma.
Other areas of focus include anger management, ADHD, and stress management.

Carey Best – Q&A

What does Carey specialize in? Carey is a Registered Psychologist working with adult individuals, focusing on anxiety, emotional regulation, and trauma — with additional areas of focus including anger management, ADHD, and stress management.

What is Carey’s approach to therapy? Carey takes an integrative, trauma-informed approach, drawing on evidence-based methods including CBT, DBT, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Solution-Focused Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, and mindfulness practices, tailored to each client’s needs.

What kinds of clients does Carey work well with? Clients struggling with self-doubt, anxiety, or the pressure of expectations; those exploring how gender norms shape their relationships and emotions; and anyone learning to set boundaries or wanting to live more in line with their own values.

What can clients expect from working with Carey? A warm, direct style that incorporates humour when appropriate, with an emphasis on showing up as you are, without judgment or pressure to have things figured out.

What are Carey’s credentials? Carey holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University.