Jeneatte is a trained Art Psychotherapist who focuses on bottom-up, client-led approaches. She is also skilled in integrating a variety of therapeutic modalities in the art therapy room. Dedicated to fostering healing and self-discovery, she helps individuals explore their inner world through creative and compassionate methods.

Experience: Jeneatte is a professionally trained artist with over 15 years of experience facilitating group art workshops in Fort McMurray, fostering creativity and community connection. Alongside her extensive background in Project Management within the Oil and Gas sector, she has developed a deep understanding of collaboration and leadership. Currently completing her master’s studies in Art Psychotherapy, Jeneatte has shifted her focus to integrating her artistic expertise with therapeutic practices. For the past year, she has been facilitating one-on-one and group Art Psychotherapy sessions, helping individuals explore healing and self-discovery through creative expression.

Unique Approach: Through a compassionate, client-led approach that blends artistic expertise with therapeutic techniques, Jeneatte provides a safe and nurturing space for healing, self-discovery.

Specialties: Art therapy: Identity Exploration, Trauma Recovery, Emotional Regulation, Neurodivergence Support, Stress Reduction, Self-Esteem, Relational Dynamics and Overall Mental Health and Well-Being.

Client Focus: Adults, Children 4+, Youth and Teens, Family, Groups

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Tina has been providing therapy in Fort McMurray for more than 20 years. She has extensive training and a passion for helping individuals resolve trauma, both historical and recent, using various modalities. Bearing witness to someone’s story with understanding and working with evidence based practices to help the person on their path to health and healing is at the core of her work.

Experience: Tina is a Registered Social Worker with the Alberta College of Social Work. She graduated in 2003 with a Master’s Degree of Social Work, with a focus in clinical practice, from Wilfred Laurier University. Tina has provided therapy throughout the region with an unwavering drive to provide services that are uniquely tailored to the needs of the person. She has worked with individuals, children and couples in various settings. Her practice centered on the belief that each person is the expert of their life and holds an innate ability to heal. She believes that a therapist is a guide that provides a safe and structured environment to aids the individual to grow and innate ability to flourish. Her history and interest in helping people heal and move past their trauma is at the core of her work and continuing education.

Unique Approach: Tina has a deep passion for working with the roots of the issues that continue to drive the day to day issues or patterns that come up in people’s lives. She often explains that we can mow down the dandelions and it can leave the garden clean and healthy for a while, but it is the roots that are deep and strong it is those that need tending to. By tending to the roots the day to day patterns have last change.

Specialties: Trauma therapy, ART (Accelerated Resolution Therapy), EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing), ITATM (Integrated Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model), Play Based Child Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, somatic based approaches.

Client Focus: Adult, Couples and Children

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Alexis is a registered Social Worker with over 21 years of therapy experience. She has worked in a variety of mental health roles including mental health therapist for adults, children, couples and families and adolescents. Her approach is client-centred, non-judgmental and she has extensive experience working with diverse populations experiencing many mental health needs including but not limited to ADHD, anxiety, depression, PTSD and complex trauma, OCD, workplace stress and chronic pain.

Experience: Alexis has been in the field of mental health since 2001. She received a Bachelors of Social Work from Thompson Rivers University and then a Masters in Clinical Social Work from University of Calgary in 2004.

Unique Approach: Alexis believes that creating a strong connection with her clients is imperative to supporting healing and change. She wants to walk beside clients as they journey through the therapy process. Alexis also believes there is a strong mind/body connection and works at supporting her clients to integrate different somatic strategies to help with healing.

Specialties: ADHD Clinical Service Provider Designation, CBT, DBT, Solution Focused Therapy, Collaborative Problem Solving, Attachment Theory, and Polyvagal Theory.

Client Focus: Adults, Couples, Families, Teens, Children, LGBTQ+

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Salome provides therapy, consulting, collaboration, and psychological assessments for a range of mental health concerns with children, adolescents, and adults. She is passionate about nourishing your wellness journey and building community through holistic education and collaboration. Ask about her ‘Thrive in Five’ or ‘GO! Pal’ programs!

Experience: Salome is a Registered Psychologist with the College of Alberta Psychologists. She also holds a Master of Counselling degree as well as a Master of Science degree in Child and Adolescent Psychology.

Unique Approach: She has over 20 years of professional experience working around the globe as an educator, counsellor, or psychologist. This diverse background provides an adaptable and unique approach to therapy.

Salome is passionate about empowering her clients to access their inner healing resources to enhance their journey.

Specialties: Salome is trained in a variety of modalities (including EMDR, EFT, EFFT, CBT, DBT, SFT, MBCT, and Attachment therapy to name a few). She is a level II certified clinical trauma professional (CCTP-II), an AD/HD certified clinical services provider (AD/HD-CCSP), and an NIHB service provider!

She is experienced in dealing with many health issues including but not limited to: - Anxiety and Depressive related disorders - AD/HD - Attachment - Bi-polar; BPD - Career Planning - PTSD - Complex Trauma

Client Focus: Adults, Families, Children, and Teens

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Natali is a registered Psychologist that provides therapy and psychological assessments for a wide range of mental health concerns for adults and adolescents. She believes in helping individuals of varying ages and backgrounds foster their greatest potential and uses a strength base approach in counselling.

Experience: Natali has 35 plus years of experience in counselling. She has acquired her bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Moncton. She a member of the College of Psychologists in New Brunswick and Alberta.

Unique Approach: Natali uses a strength-based approach to help her clients become the best version of themselves. She is trained in EMDR, CBT, DBT, Mindfulness, Grief and Loss, Solution Focused Therapy, Certified in Trauma Informed Care, and a Certified ADHD Life Coach (CALC) from the International ADHD Coach Training Center (iACTcenter).

Specialties: ADHD, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, low self-esteem, trauma, perfectionism, burn out, stress, body image and individuals going through life transitions. Natali also offers regular psycho-education groups to individuals with ADHD.

Client Focus: Individual adult women’s mental health, and individual youth (aged 12 +). Anxiety, depression, and individuals that suspect or have a diagnosis of ADHD, and parents who have children with a diagnosis of ADHD.

*Natali is bilingual and fluent in French and English.”

Client Focus: Women’s Mental Health

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Email: jillian@ymmcollaborativepractice.com

Booking Link: https://aws-portal.owlpractice.ca/jillianmartinpsychology/booking

Jillian is a Registered Psychologist, Provisional Supervisor and Co-Owner of YMM Collaborative Practice. Jillian primarily focuses on perinatal and reproductive mental health as well as sex therapy. Her approach to therapy is person-centered, trauma-informed, non-judgmental, compassionate, sex-positive and pleasure focused.

Experience: Jillian has over 15 years of experience working in the field of mental health. She is a registered psychologist in good standing with the College of Alberta Psychologists since 2013. Jillian began her private practice in January of 2020 committing to continued education and developing skills and competence to best support the clients she is working with. Jillian’s own struggles with perinatal anxiety was a catalyst for shifting focus towards perinatal and reproductive mental health. Jillian is passionate about sexuality and her goal is to provide a space that is safe, sex positive and enhances the sexual health of clients of all bodies, genders, relationships and sexual orientations.

Unique Approach: Jillian works with adult individuals and couples. Jillian works from an anti-oppressive framework working to address systems and structural forms of oppression. Jillian shows up authentically in the client-therapist relationship. She is warm, genuine, and curious and has a deep passion for supporting the overall health of her clients.

Specialties: Jillian’s primary focus is perinatal and reproductive mental health, and sex therapy though she has experience working with, but not limited to adults experiencing anxiety, life transition, depression, bipolar disorder, grief and loss, parenting, relational issues, chronic pain, trauma and PTSD and more.

Jillian is trained in different therapeutic modalities and techniques such as Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) among others. These are woven together to meet individual client needs.

Client Focus: Adult, Individuals, Couples, 2SLGBTQIA+

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Please Contact Jocelyn Directly to Book

Email: jocelyn@ymmcollaborativepractice.com

Booking Link: https://jocelynmorrisontherapy.janeapp.com/

Jocelyn is a Registered Clinical Social Worker with over 12 years of providing direct clinical interventions, working with mental health across the lifespan and with couples and families.

Jocelyn provides a range of evidence informed therapeutic interventions and has a passion for working with adults who wish to gain a deeper understanding of themselves. Depression, anxiety, PTSD, relationship challenges and family of origin issues are some of Jocelyn’s primary focus within her work.

Experience: After gaining experience in various organizations, including foster care & adoption, inpatient psychiatry and community mental health, she began her clinical practice working as a Children’s Mental Health Therapist. Over time, her passion grew towards working with individual adults, relationships, perinatal mental health and organizational mental health. She has served on several committees within the community and is passionate about enhancing the psychological health of people and systems they intersect with.

Jocelyn is trained in a variety of modalities including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing and Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples. In addition to this, she is trained in working with Trauma Exposed Professionals. Jocelyn is a Certified Perinatal Mental Health Clinician through Postpartum Support International, certified through CMHA in Psychological Health & Safety for workplaces & holds certifications in Trauma informed Leadership.

Unique Approach: The foundation of Jocelyn’s practice is rooted in structural and anti-oppressive practice, which focuses on how social systems impact a person’s overall wellness. She is mindful that each person brings their own unique lived experiences to their sessions and she aims to provide a warm, inclusive space where treatment plans are collaborative in nature.

Specialties: Trauma, anxiety, depression, postpartum, relationship issues, family of origin issues, first responders, trauma exposed health care workers, psychologically safe workplaces, clinical supervision

Client Focus: Adult, Couples, Families, Adolescents

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Ashi is a personable and caring Mental Health Therapist who takes a holistic and trauma-informed approach to therapy.

She has experience working in real communities as well as in urgent care facilities for crisis support. This experience allows her to be a great fit for many clients as she has worked in a high paced crisis environment, while also working with clients who need care for concerns that they struggle with every day. She has attended many trainings and worked in many different facilities in Calgary and made her way up north this summer to provide care to our community.

Unique Approach: Ashi’s approach is warm, supportive, and focused on a nonjudgmental and strength focused belief drawn from internal family systems that believes that we Inherently have the capacity to heal.

Specialties: trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship conflict, self-esteem, cultural sensitivities, and women’s issues.

Client Focus: Adults, Couples, Families, Youth, LGBTQ, BIPOC, Children (Ages 8+)

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Breanna is a registered Social Worker with over 8 years of healthcare experience. After falling in love with Adult Psychiatry, her focus is to help, adults, teens and families go from surviving to thriving.

Experience: Breanna started working in healthcare at the ripe age of 18! From there she decided social work was her passion! She worked at the Psychiatric hospital in Ponoka and the Stollery Children’s Hospital before branching to community Mental health

Unique Approach: Breanna believes that healing is a journey. This journey looks different for everyone. She uses approaches that treat the mind holistically while promoting over all health in all aspects. Breanna meets the client where they are at, providing a safe, warming and supportive environment.

Specialties: trauma, CBT, anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, DBT, EFT

Client Focus: Adults, Couples, Families, Children, LGBTQ+

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Shelby belongs to Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation in Treaty 8, Alberta and is a Yorkville University graduate with a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology. Shelby is committed to providing culturally safe care by fostering an inclusive therapeutic environment that values and respects diverse identities while exploring and understanding each individual’s unique lived experience to promote healing and growth.

Experience: Shelby started working with YMM Collaborative Practice as a practicum student in 2024. She has experience working with Indigenous clients and enjoys working with young adults. Shelby is empathetic and connects with Indigenous clients through her lived experience, offering dedicated support as they navigate their healing journey.

Unique Approach: Through an integrated, relationship-centered approach, Shelby is passionate about supporting clients in discovering their inner strengths, healing past wounds, and creating a life that aligns with their hopes and aspirations.

Specialties: CBT, ACT, Anxiety, Depression, Self-esteem

Client Focus: Adults, Adolescents, Indigenous Individuals, 2SLGBTQIA+, Parents

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Please Contact Shannon Directly to Book

Email: shannon@ymmcollaborativepractice.com

Booking Link: https://syoungtherapy.janeapp.com/

Shannon has been a Registered Social Worker for 13 years, and has experience working in a number of roles supporting Mental Health. Shannon works primarily with adults (Individual & couples) seeking support with relationship concerns, perinatal mental health (including infertility, and pregnancy & infant loss), and trauma/ptsd.

Experience: With 13 years of experience as a Registered Social Worker, Shannon has supported individuals and couples across various roles in the mental health field. She specializes in working with adults facing relationship concerns, perinatal mental health challenges (including infertility, pregnancy and infant loss), and trauma/PTSD. Shannon is passionate about helping clients navigate complex life issues with compassion and expertise.

Unique Approach: Shannon adopts a relational and direct approach, meeting clients where they are in their journey. She creates a safe, validating space grounded in trauma-informed care and anti-oppressive practices. Using an attachment-based lens, Shannon collaborates with clients to help them reach their goals and achieve healing. Her practice is guided by a deep commitment to understanding and supporting clients’ unique experiences.

Areas of Practice: Shannon is particularly passionate about helping individuals and couples address relationships concerns, such as rebuilding trust, infidelity, and emotional and sexual disconnection. As a certified perinatal mental health specialist, Shannon works with individuals and couples experiencing challenges related to fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and birth trauma. Shannon supports individuals who have experienced trauma & PTSD, providing guidance on treating and managing symptoms, including anxiety, depression, and emotional dysregulation. Other Areas of Practice: Shannon also works with clients addressing issues such as anxiety, depression, family dynamics, grief and loss, stress management, and burnout.

Shannon integrates a variety of therapeutic frameworks to meet the unique needs of each client. She has training in: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Internal Family Systems (IFS) Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills Shannon’s additional training in relationships, trauma, mindfulness, grief & loss, and perinatal mental health further enhances her ability to tailor her approach to each individual’s needs. In addition to her clinical work, Shannon is a Certified Psychological Health and Safety Consultant. She works with organizations to prioritize the wellness of employees and help build workplaces rooted in trust, collaboration, and psychological safety.

Client Focus: Individual adult, Couples, Families;

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