Sabrina Niesman (she/her) BEd, BSc, MSW

Maybe your body communicates in ways that have never felt acknowledged. Maybe you've navigated systems such as medical, educational, immigration that weren't designed for you, and you're exhausted from having to fight just to be seen. Maybe you're queer, or trans, or both, and you've spent a long time bracing for the version of therapy that requires you to explain yourself before anything else happens.

Sabrina Niesman is a Registered Social Worker in Calgary, who works with people who are tired of being reduced to a diagnosis, a status, or a presenting problem. Her approach is warm, relational, and validation-forward. She meets you where you are, holds space for complexity, and moves at a pace that actually works for your nervous system.

Currently Accepting New Clients

Registered Social Worker | Queer & Trans-Affirming | Chronic Illness & Pain | Kink-Affirming | Couples | Refugees & Newcomers | Calgary, Alberta

Sabrina works at the intersection of identity, body, and systems, with particular warmth for people whose lives don't fit neatly into mainstream therapy assumptions. She is drawn to clients navigating chronic illness and the grief that comes with it, queer and trans identity at any stage, the complexity of relationships that don't follow a script, and the layered experience of being a newcomer or refugee trying to rebuild while navigating institutions that were never built with you in mind.

Her style is described by clients as gentle but not too soft, and she validates your experience fully. She will also gently reflect patterns back to you when the time is right. She works with what she calls 'structure within no structure': sessions are responsive rather than prescriptive, but they are never aimless. She brings in practical tools alongside emotional processing, grounding techniques alongside insight, and science-informed understanding of chronic illness alongside relational social work practice.

WHO SABRINA WORKS WITH

Sabrina works with adults and young adults offering:

Queer-affirming and kink-affirming relational support
Chronic illness, chronic pain, and disability-informed counselling
Discernment counselling and couples work
Sex therapy
Refugee and newcomer resettlement, integration, and systems navigation
Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) for folks navigating OCD

SABRINA’S APPROACH

Sabrina works from a relational, validation-forward foundation grounded in social work's systems lens. She is not here to hand you a toolkit and send you on your way. She is here to sit with you in the complexity, help you understand what is actually happening and why, and then build practical capacity alongside that understanding.

She draws on emotion-focused approaches to help clients identify and process what they are actually feeling, especially for people whose chronic illness, neurodivergence, or trauma history has left them feeling disconnected from their own internal experience.

BOOKING DETAILS

In-Person in Calgary, and Virtual across Alberta
$235/hr
60, 90, and 120-minute sessions available
Direct billing (coming soon!)
Sliding scale may be available

book a free 20-minute consult with Sabrina

CREDENTIALS & TRAINING

Master of Social Work (MSW), Clinical Social Work Practice | University of Calgary, 2026
Registered Social Worker, Alberta College of Social Work
Bachelor of Education, Secondary Science | University of Calgary
Bachelor of Science, Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology, with Distinction | University of Calgary
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Restorative Conflict Resolution training
Aboriginal Relations Leadership Certificate | University of Calgary
Indigenous Canada | University of Alberta (Coursera)

Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us at admin@revolutiontw.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.

Does Sabrina work with queer and trans clients?

Yes. Sabrina's practice is queer and trans-affirming at every level, not just tolerant. She works with queer and trans adults and youth at any stage of identity, including people who are questioning, newly out, or navigating life-long identity in a world that still often fails them

What does chronic illness therapy look like with Sabrina?

Sabrina works with the full experience of chronic illness, not just the medical facts of it. That includes grief, loss of identity, frustration with systems that dismiss you, the emotional labour of self-advocacy, and learning to trust your own body again. She brings a science-informed understanding of how bodies carry illness alongside relational counselling.

Is Sabrina kink-affirming and poly-affirming?

Yes. Sabrina offers kink-affirming support for individuals and couples. She does not pathologize kink or BDSM. For couples and triads, she works with communication, consent, conflict, and intimacy within diverse relationship structures.

Does Sabrina work with refugees and newcomers?

Yes. Sabrina works with refugees and newcomers navigating resettlement, systems, and the compounding stress of rebuilding identity and life in a new context. She brings culturally connected care and practical system navigation support alongside emotional processing.

Does Sabrina offer couples therapy?

Does Sabrina offer couples therapy?

Yes. Sabrina offers couples therapy for queer, trans, kink-involved, CNM, and otherwise non-traditional relationship structures. She does not assume the goal is to stay together, she assumes the goal is clarity and honesty. Couples sessions are 90 minutes minimum.

What is Sabrina's style like in sessions?

Warm, gentle, and relational, but not passive. She will validate your experience fully and also gently reflect patterns back to you when the time is right. Sessions are responsive rather than prescriptive, blending practical tools with emotional processing at a pace that works for your nervous system.

Is Sabrina accepting new clients?

Yes. Sabrina is currently accepting new individual clients, couples, and triads at Revolution Therapy & Wellness in Calgary. Book a free 20-minute consultation at revolutiontw.janeapp.com or contact admin@revolutiontw.com.

Does Sabrina offer a sliding scale?

Yes. Sliding scale fees may be available. Contact Sabrina@revolutiontw.com to discuss before booking.