Michelle has worked in the field for nearly 20 years with a background in social services, extensively working with diverse populations, including First Nations, youth-at-risk, and marginalized populations. She specializes in substance abuse disorders, depression, anxiety, and complex post-traumatic stress disorders. Michelle works from an integrative, client-centred approach that blends Eastern spiritual practices with Western psychology.

In 2019, she became a Registered Psychotherapist and opened her private practice. Michelle is also a Canadian Certified Counselor and Supervisor with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association and a Certified International Yoga Therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She is currently working on her Doctorate of Counselling and Psychotherapy Program at Yorkville University, researching the benefits of using yoga therapy in counselling and psychotherapy.

Michelle has been a Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner since 2019. She is also a CI Mentor, Circle Leader, and Facilitator. Michelle has travelled across Canada, delivering Compassionate Inquiry Circles and Compassionate Inquiry Short Courses to remote areas such as Watson Lake, Yukon, and Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. She has also participated in two research studies on Compassionate Inquiry, one of which you can read by clicking this link.

Supervision became one of her passions when she was invited by the Compassionate Inquiry Program, developed by Dr. Gabor Mate and Sat Dharam Kaur, to be one of their Mentors in their Mentorship and Mentor-In-Training Programs. Since that time, she has taken two Clinical Supervision Training Programs. The first program she took was that of Dr. Jeff Chang, one of her University professors at Athabasca University. The second and most recent was by Dr. Blythe Shepard at the University of Lethbridge.

Michelle is in sobriety herself and has been in recovery since 2005. She witnessed first-hand the powerful impact of blending Eastern spiritual practices with Western psychology and utilizes these diverse practices, philosophies, disciplines, and theoretical perspectives to provide her clients with a unique, individualized approach to healing. Michelle offers unique opportunities to learn, grow, heal, and reconnect with yourself.

Outside of counselling and when she isn’t studying, she enjoys training for Ironman’s, spending time in the trails with her two husky puppies, and enjoying the great outdoors. After discovering her Metis ancestry, Algonquin, she has enjoyed connecting with the traditional practices and merging them into her life.

Michelle has worked in the field for nearly 20 years with a background in social services, extens... Read More