expert advisor of
psychology & stress

Anne Mahoney, Ph.D., C.Psych., F.C.G.P.A

Dr. Anne Mahoney brings 23 years of clinical psychology practice to Mahoney, Coleman and Associates in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and now to you at EnerChiHealth.com. Her clinical practice focuses on helping individuals, couples and groups become more aware of how their own behaviours limit their potential.

For the past 17 years Anne has been lecturing and supervising students for the Group Therapy Training Program, a nationally accredited education program which trains mental health professionals as group therapists. For the past five years, Anne has been the Director of the Group Therapy Training Program.

She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary and has taught there since 1986. In this role she serves as a lecturer, conference course instructor, thesis committee member and supervisor of undergraduate students.

Spiritually Anne is involved with the Calgary Theravadin Meditation Society both as a meditator and a teacher. She has 16 years experience with Vipassana Meditation and has been leading mediation retreats and workshops since 1995. Currently she facilitates two meditation sitting groups in the Calgary area in addition to conducting introductory classes in Mindfulness meditation.

Special Interests:

In Anne's clinical psychology practice she focuses on issues of self-worth and in that context helps people recover from:

  • chronic depression
  • anxiety problems
  • abuse issues
  • family of origin issues
  • chronic and acute stress related physical problems

Training and Education:

B.Sc. (Honours, 1st Class) in Experimental Psychology,
Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., 1976.
M.Sc. in Experimental Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, 1980.
Clinical Psychology Internship, Foothills Hospital, in conjunction with the Faculty of Medicine, Division of Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, 1978-79.
Ph.D. in Experimental Neuropsychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, 1984.

Associations and Memberships:

American Group Psychotherapy Association
Canadian Group Psychotherapy Association
Psychologists' Association of Alberta
College of Alberta Psychologists [Registered by the Psychologists' Association of Alberta, 1980 to present; Certification Number 1015.]
Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology (Certification Number 04093)
Fellow, Canadian Group Psychotherapy Association, 1993

Published Work:

H.C. Traue; A.M. Mahoney, C. Bischoff (1986). Toward a New
Understanding of Tension Headache
. In D. Papakostropoulos et al. (eds), Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychophysiology, Croom Helm Ltd. Publishers, Kent, England.

A.M. Mahoney & R.S. Sainsbury (1987). Hemispheric Asymmetry for the Perception of Emotional Sounds. Brain & Cognition, 6, 216.

O. Pettem, M. West, A.M. Mahoney, A. Keller (1993). Depression and Attachment Problems. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Vol. 18, 2, 78-81.

A.M. Mahoney, J. Dalby, M. King (1998). Cognitive Failures and Stress. Psychological Reports, 82, 1432-1434.

Contact our Expert Advisor:

Anne Mahoney, Ph.D., C.Psych.
Mahoney, Coleman and Associates
#3, 1922-9th Ave SE
Calgary, AB T2G 0V2
(403) 270-8450 ph
(403) 270-8588 fx
e-mail: mca@spots.ca