At Joie de Vivre Psychological Services, I offer personalized therapy tailored to your unique needs. My approach focuses on understanding your individual experiences to foster healing and growth so that you can be your best self.
I have been in private practice since 2010 and have a Master's degree in Counselling Psychology from the University of Alberta. I am a member in good standing with the College of Alberta Psychologists.
Using an attachment-informed EMDR framework to understand client coping patterns and rewire core developmental/ traumatic experiences has revolutionized my practice.
"Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences."
The Grief Recovery Method is "an action-based, powerful, directed approach to healing from life's deepest heartbreaks." I have personally experienced its transformative effects in processing the sudden loss of my husband in 2017, and use this as a tool to help clients heal from complicated grief so that they can move forward with peace and equanimity.
Hakomi is a body-centred psychotherapy method that uses mindfulness
to access the wisdom contained in the body in order to
bring patterns and beliefs into conscious awareness,
empowering clients for personal growth and lasting change.
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