Amy is a Registered Provisional Psychologist with the College of Alberta Psychologists and obtained a Master of Arts degree in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University. She has over 20 years of experience working with families impacted by addictions, mental health disorders, trauma, separations, emotional regulation, and navigating major life transitions. Amy has an extensive history of working with children, youth, adults, couples, and families. She is also a certified family group conference facilitator and has worked supporting families impacted by foster care, kinship care, grief, and challenging court mandates. Amy has worked within school settings, in-home services, not-for-profit agencies, and children's services.

Amy has an integrative approach to therapy, pulling from modalities such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Her methodology is primarily client-centred, as Amy believes in the importance of building supportive therapeutic relationships and creating a safe environment to foster growth and adaptive behaviours. While implementing a lens of mindfulness within the therapeutic setting, Amy believes in the importance of unconditional positive regard for all clients.

Through compassion, empathy, and acceptance, Amy aims to journey alongside her clients in discovering and developing the tools and resources they need to achieve their therapeutic goals. She excels at working with adults, adolescents, children and families who present with:

• Self-criticism

• Trauma

• ADHD

• OCD

• ODD and other defiant behaviors

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Self-harm

• Family relationships

• Neurodiversity

• Parenting challenges

Amy also has a support dog named Benji who is available for sessions with children, families, and adults.