Nina Hornjatkevyc, M.Sc., R. Psych.

Counselling Director, Calgary, Registered Psychologist

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Nina is the Counselling Director of Canada Career Counselling Calgary. She is an experienced Registered Psychologist, Career Counsellor, and Career Coach who is passionate about helping people to build and navigate their careers and support wellbeing in their professional and personal lives. For over twenty years Nina has helped thousands of clients to develop direction, purpose, confidence, and wellbeing.

Nina’s approach to career counselling and coaching is both strengths-based and practical, drawing on research-supported strategies, career assessments, and resources that help clients to make important decisions about their careers and next steps. A caring and skilled professional with an eye for detail, Nina enjoys collaborating with people as they explore their preferences, priorities, needs, and options, developing tailored strategies that support clarity and confidence. Her work also focuses on enhancing career satisfaction, development, and workplace effectiveness, while helping people to manage challenges like burnout, stress, and lack of clarity.

Nina has extensive experience working with a diverse range of clients, including:

• Students and graduates choosing their first career or planning education pathways
• Mid-career professionals developing their skills or pursuing career growth
• People considering changing careers, seeking more meaningful, fulfilling careers and work-life balance
• Professionals navigating workplace challenges, communication issues, and toxic work environments
• Parents re-evaluating career-life fit or considering new directions during or after parental leave
• Employees impacted by layoffs, organizational change, or restructuring
• People preparing for retirement or planning their next steps

In her leadership role, Nina enjoys supervising our Registered Provisional Psychologists and contributes to media features on career development and mental health. Her insights connect the importance of emotional wellbeing with effective career development, to help people as they build and navigate their professional and personal lives. 

Nina has worked in private practice, post-secondary, and community settings, is a Registered Psychologist with the College of Alberta Psychologists and a member of the Psychologists’ Association of Alberta. She holds a Master of Science in Counselling Psychology from the University of Calgary, where her thesis research explored grief and loss experiences. She also completed Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Alberta, focusing on psychology and performance. Her academic foundation, extensive experience, and compassionate approach make her an exceptional support to people striving for both professional and personal growth and wellbeing.

In addition to her career counselling and coaching work at Canada Career Counselling, Nina offers Personal Counselling through Synthesis Psychology supporting clients in areas such as stress management, life transitions, anxiety, perfectionism, grief, and self-esteem.