Individual Counselling
One-to-one support for anxiety, depression, chronic stress, self-esteem, emotional overwhelm, relationship concerns, parenting stress, and other personal challenges.
Online counselling with Rupa Ray, MSW, RSW
Deep roots. Wide-reaching care.
Rupa Ray, MSW, RSW, brings six years of counselling and therapy experience across mental health, trauma, healthcare, rehabilitation, and private practice. Like the banyan tree, her broad experience brings together many strands of practice within one warm, trauma-informed, person-centred approach.
Rupa Ray, MSW, RSW
Registered Social Worker
Registered in Alberta and Ontario · Trauma-informed · Culturally responsive
Meet Rupa
Support grounded in compassion, dignity, and connection.
Like the banyan tree, we can grow stronger through connection, support, and deeply rooted resilience.
Hello, I’m Rupa Ray, MSW, RSW, a Registered Social Worker in Alberta and Ontario. I created Mighty Banyan Counselling to offer a warm, supportive, and non-judgmental space where people can feel heard, respected, and understood.
My approach is trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and collaborative. Counselling is tailored to each person’s experiences, values, culture, circumstances, and preferred pace rather than following a one-size-fits-all approach.
I also believe that high-quality counselling should be accessible. Mighty Banyan was created with the goal of providing thoughtful, evidence-informed therapy while keeping care within reach for more individuals and families.
Together, we can explore the challenges you are facing, recognize your strengths, better understand patterns that may be affecting you, and develop practical ways to create meaningful and sustainable change.
Counselling is available in English, Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu.
You can also learn more about my professional background and areas of practice on my Psychology Today profile.
Counselling services
Personalized support for complex, real-life challenges.
People rarely arrive in counselling with just one issue. Support can draw on Rupa’s experience across mental health, trauma, healthcare, relationships, rehabilitation, work, culture, and major life transitions.
Couples Counselling
A collaborative space to work through communication difficulties, recurring conflict, emotional distance, changing roles, parenting stress, and the work of rebuilding connection and trust.
Trauma & Recovery
Trauma-informed support for difficult past experiences, PTSD symptoms, sexual violence, and other experiences that continue to affect emotions, relationships, sleep, or daily life.
Grief, Health & Life Transitions
Support through grief and loss, chronic illness or pain, changes in health, caregiving demands, sleep difficulties, and major transitions that can shift a person’s sense of stability or identity.
Work, Disability & Rehabilitation
Counselling informed by experience with workplace injury, disability, vocational rehabilitation, WCB-related concerns, return-to-work challenges, and the emotional impact of changes in functioning or employment.
Cross-Cultural & Newcomer Support
Culturally responsive counselling that can make room for migration, settlement, identity, family expectations, intergenerational concerns, belonging, and the experience of building a life across cultures.
Professional experience
Six years of counselling and therapy across diverse clinical settings.
Rupa’s experience spans community mental health, healthcare, trauma services, rehabilitation, WCB-related care, newcomer support, and private practice. That breadth helps her understand concerns that often cross the boundaries between mental health, physical health, relationships, work, culture, and life circumstances.
Why Mighty Banyan?
Broad experience. Deeply connected roots.
Like a banyan tree, strength can come from growing many roots while remaining connected to one foundation.
A banyan tree grows differently from most trees. As its branches extend outward, they send down new roots—creating a wider, stronger foundation while remaining part of the same tree.
That image reflects how I think about clinical experience. Working with people across healthcare, trauma services, rehabilitation, newcomer communities, chronic illness, workplace recovery, relationships, and private practice has not meant moving from one disconnected area to another. Each setting has added another perspective and another root to the same clinical foundation.
People rarely arrive in counselling with just one issue. Mental health can be connected with relationships, physical health, work, family, culture, migration, trauma, grief, and major life changes. A broad clinical background helps me understand these connections and work with the whole person rather than only a diagnosis or presenting concern.
Credentials & professional development
Clinical training supported by ongoing learning and consultation.
MSW
Clinical specialization · University of Calgary
RSW
Registered in Alberta & Ontario
Authorized Practice
Restricted psychosocial interventions in Alberta
EMDR & ART
Specialized trauma-therapy training
Ongoing Consultation
Biweekly complex-case consultation
How Rupa works
Counselling that honours your story and responds to your needs.
Collaborative & Client-Centred
Your priorities, experiences, values, and goals guide the counselling process. Therapy is something we work on together, not something done to you.
Trauma-Informed & Strengths-Based
Care is grounded in safety, choice, pacing, and respect for the skills and resilience you already carry.
Culturally Responsive
Identity, culture, migration, family, community, faith, language, and lived experience can all matter in therapy and are welcomed without assumption.
Therapeutic approaches
Evidence-informed therapy, thoughtfully matched to the person.
Rupa draws from multiple therapeutic frameworks rather than fitting every client into one model.
EMDR · ART · CBT · CBT-I · ACT · DBT · Narrative · Strengths-Based · Motivational Interviewing · Solution-Focused · Attachment & Relational
Fees & payment
Experienced professional counselling at an intentionally accessible rate.
Accessible pricing is a deliberate part of the Mighty Banyan model. It does not mean a reduced standard of care.
Individual counselling
$100
per 50-minute session
Couples counselling
$120
per couples session
Over the years, Rupa has seen clients step away from counselling sooner than they would have liked because their extended health benefits were exhausted after only a small number of sessions. For many people, four or five sessions may provide a helpful beginning, but may not offer enough time to work through more complex or longstanding concerns.
Mighty Banyan’s fees are therefore set intentionally. The goal is to make high-quality, experienced counselling more accessible and to help clients stretch their available benefits further, so that cost is less likely to interrupt therapy before the work feels complete.
Appointments are arranged directly. Payment by e-transfer must be received at least 24 hours before the scheduled session. Once payment is received, the appointment is confirmed and instructions for joining the secure online session are provided.
Payments are non-refundable. Clients may reschedule with at least 24 hours’ notice. Appointments cancelled or rescheduled with less than 24 hours’ notice will result in the session fee being forfeited.
If the provider is unable to keep the appointment, a replacement appointment will be arranged at no additional cost.
Direct billing is not available. A receipt will be provided. Coverage for counselling provided by a Registered Social Worker varies by insurance plan, so clients are encouraged to confirm their own benefits before booking.
Practice information
A few practical details before you begin.
Where are sessions offered?
Mighty Banyan Counselling is an online practice. Rupa is registered in Alberta and Ontario, and services are provided within the jurisdictions in which she is professionally registered.
Will my insurance cover the session?
Many extended health plans include counselling provided by a Registered Social Worker, but coverage varies. Mighty Banyan does not direct bill. You will receive a receipt that you can submit to your insurer where eligible.
What should I expect when I first get in touch?
You can email Mighty Banyan with a brief description of what you are looking for and your general availability. Rupa can then determine whether the service appears to be an appropriate fit and discuss next steps for booking.
What about confidentiality?
Privacy and confidentiality are central to counselling. The limits of confidentiality, record keeping, informed consent, and online-session practices are reviewed as part of beginning services.
Is Mighty Banyan an emergency or crisis service?
No. Mighty Banyan does not provide emergency or crisis-response services. If you are in immediate danger or need urgent help, contact local emergency services or an appropriate crisis service in your area.
Ready to see whether Mighty Banyan feels like the right fit?
You are welcome to get in touch with a question or to request an appointment. A brief email about what you are looking for and your general availability is a good place to start.