Penelope (Penny) Waller Ulmer

She/Her

MACP, BA

Registered Psychologist

English

Welcome, I'm glad you're here. This space is held with care and respect for your experience, past and present. I support adults navigating anxiety, attachment, neglect, PTSD, trauma, emotional overwhelm, grief and loss, self-worth, boundaries, people pleasing, caregiving stress (including PLwD), and reproductive and perinatal mental health. My approach is relational and somatic, honouring the body’s role in healing. Whether this is a first step or a return to yourself, I invite you to connect.

Background

I began my career at the Lois Hole Hospital, in perinatal mental health, including birth trauma, fertility challenges, and infant loss. I later worked in public health at a Primary Care Network, offering individual and group therapy for adults navigating anxiety, complex trauma, emotional regulation, and life transitions, often rooted in early relationship dynamics or family of origin experiences. In private practice, I continue integrating evidence-based or informed approaches respecting each person’s pace and lived experience, and drawing from somatic, cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic approaches, attachment-based therapy, polyvagal, & parts work. Let's explore change, together.

Your therapeutic experience with me

Sessions are collaborative and paced with care. I use both talk therapy and somatic, body-based approaches to explore how past experiences shape current patterns. We track the body’s implicit story through sensation, emotion, posture, breath, and movement to support nervous system regulation, trauma processing, and emotional integration. Modalities may include Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, mindful movement, parts work, and somatic voice work. Clients often experience subtle or profound shifts such as a softening in the shoulders, a clearer boundary, or the release of a long-held belief. These shifts are reinforced through somatic awareness and savouring, which help embed coherence, presence,

Areas of expertise

These are the areas I commonly work with, and they form a big part of the support I offer in my practice:

Complex Trauma?

Perinatal Mental Health?

Anxiety & Worry?

Somatic And Trauma Focused?

Romantic Relationships?

Career & Life Transitions?

I also support you in these additional areas and welcome you to reach out if any of them speak to what you are going through:

Interpersonal Relationships

Family Relationship?

Assertiveness & Boundaries?

Communication

Attachment?

Childhood Trauma?

Coping Skills

Grief Over Health Losses?

Passive-aggressive Behaviours

People Pleasing?

Anger Management

Personal Growth?

Work/life Balance

PTSD?

Therapeutic approaches

These are the approaches at the heart of my work, and I use them often because they help create meaningful change:

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy/body-centered Approach

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a somatic, body-based approach for trauma, anxiety, and attachment wounds. It supports nervous system regulation and body awareness, helps complete interrupted actions, addresses unmet needs, and fosters emotional processing and lasting transformation.

Accelerated Resolution Therapy

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is an evidence-based approach that uses eye movements and image rescripting to reduce distress from trauma, anxiety, or negative memories. It helps the brain reconsolidate stuck images and supports emotional healing and nervous system relief.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps clients shift negative thought patterns and reduce distress. Third-wave CBT, including ACT and Schema Therapy, supports emotional healing, values-based action, and insight into patterns shaped by early relationships.

Client-centered / Rogerian Therapy

Client-Centered Therapy is a humanistic approach that emphasizes empathy, acceptance, and the client’s capacity for growth. It fosters emotional safety, improves clarity and self-understanding, and is especially supportive for relational wounds and trauma, self-doubt, boundary work, & change making.

I also draw on other evidence based approaches that can gently support you when they align with what you need:

Attachment Focused Therapy

Mindfulness

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Polyvagal-informed Therapy

Psychodynamic Therapy

Somatic Therapy

Focused populations and cultural backgrounds

These are the communities and cultural backgrounds I focus on, and I bring a sincere commitment to supporting you in a way that feels respectful and genuine:

Populations

Adults

Young Adults

Older Adults

Seniors

Cultural communities

First And Second Generation Immigrants

Indigenous Community

1st And 2nd Generation Immigrant

Professional credentials

Registered Psychologist
- No.5090

College of Alberta Psychologists

Registered Psychologist
- No.3630-20-32-081

Government of Yukon

Educational background

Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology

Yorkville University, Canada

Bachelor of Arts

Focus: Psychology

Concordia University, Canada