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Hello/Tan'si

Services Include:​

  • Play Therapy 

  • Parent/Child Rehabilitation

  • EMDR Therapy

  • Trauma Specialist 

  • Family Counselling

  • FNIHB Provider 

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*Currently accepting new Telehealth clients

My Story

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I am Metis from Treaty 8 territory and MNA Region 1. I have worked within Indigenous communities and non-Indigenous communities for over 15 years. My foundation of practice is based on the belief that “It shouldn’t hurt to be a child.” This applies not only to the children and adolescents I work with; it is also relevant to adults who have carried their early painful experiences into their adult lives that result in ways of coping that block happiness and health.

 

I combine Western psychological practices with Indigenous practices for a more holistic approach to healing and growth. These practices include Attachment therapy (psychodynamic), Person-centred therapy, play therapy, and Trauma and Neurosystems (NMT Model - Bruce Paerry). Addiction treatment; Body-based therapies (critical for trauma); Motivational Interviewing, CBT, DBT, Solution-focused therapy; and Cultural training through teachings by Indigenous knowledge keepers, elders, and ceremony. 

 

Qualifications include: Red Stream Advanced Play Therapy Training Certification (Play Therapist Certification Stream); Green Stream Foundations of Play Therapy Certification; EMDR Basic Training (certification - Supervision); EMDR Child Trauma Specialist Certification; EMDR and Sandtray Training; Theraplay and MIM Certification; Neurosequential Model Training Certification; Certified Connect Parent Training Trainer; Certified Circle of Security Parent Trainer; Solution-focused Therapy Certification; Bodynamics and SE supervision for five years; Indigenous cultural training (Cree, Blackfoot), Family Group Conferencing (FGC).

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Trainings Currently Enrolled In: EMDR certification; Internal Family Systems (IFS) training; ongoing cultural training through teachings by knowledge keepers and elders and ceremony.

Contact

Working with children has been my life long passion.

(587) 400-9617 Ext 105

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT 

We acknowledge that we gather on the traditional territories of Treaties 4, 6, 7, and 8 on Turtle Island—ancestral land of many Nations, including the Blackfoot Confederacy (Kainai, Piikani, Siksika), Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, Stoney-Nakoda, Tsuu T’ina, and the Métis Peoples.

We honour the deep connection of these Nations to the land, and our shared responsibility to protect and respect Mother Earth. We pay tribute to the ancestors, the children, the missing and murdered Indigenous women and men, and all those who rest here.

We recognize the ongoing journey of healing and the shared duty of all treaty people. We stand in solidarity with those present, forgotten, and lost, and seek guidance and wisdom from the land.

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