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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 represent my core areas of expertise, backed by specialized training and extensive clinical experience.

Expertise area 1

Complex Trauma

Expertise area 2

Perinatal Mental Health

Expertise area 3

Anxiety & Worry

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Somatic And Trauma Focused

Expertise area 5

Romantic Relationships

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Career & Life Transitions

I also provide skilled support in these additional areas and welcome clients seeking help with these concerns.

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Interpersonal Relationships

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Family Relationship

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Assertiveness & Boundaries

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Communication

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Attachment

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Childhood Trauma

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Coping Skills

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Grief Over Health Losses

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Passive-aggressive Behaviours

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People Pleasing

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Anger Management

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Personal Growth

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Work/life Balance

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PTSD

Therapeutic approaches

These are my primary therapeutic approaches, backed by specialized training and extensive clinical experience.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 incorporate these evidence-based approaches when clinically appropriate:

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Attachment Lens

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Mindfulness-based Therapy

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EMDR

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Acceptance Commitment Therapy

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Polyvagal-informed Therapy

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Psychodynamic Therapy

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Somatic Therapy

Client communities & cultural expertise

These are the client communities and cultural backgrounds I have specialized experience supporting.

Client populations I serve

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Adults

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Young Adults

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Older Adults

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Seniors

Cultural expertise

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First And Second Generation Immigrants

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Indigenous Community

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1st And 2nd Generation Immigrant

Professional credentials

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Registered Psychologist
- No.5090

College of Alberta Psychologists

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

Government of Yukon

Educational background

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Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology

Yorkville University, Canada

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Bachelor of Arts

Focus: Psychology

Concordia University, Canada

Specialized training

SPI Approved Consultant Program

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute

Advanced: Complex Trauma / Dissociation

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute

Level 3: SP Certification Training

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute

Level 2: Emotion, Meaning, Attachment

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute

Level 1: Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defenses

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute

Foundational T.R.I.P.

Relationshipworx - Monique Hoving

Accelerated Resolution Therapy - Basic

IS - ART

EMDR - Foundational

EMDRIA

PAC Consultant

Positive Approach to Care

Indigenous Canada

UAlberta

Yukon First Nations 101 (YFN 101)

Yukon University

Practice locations & services

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FAQ

Did you know?

Did you know fact 1

This our late, great, office-companion, Ruby - our once toothless, eyeless, smart and sassy shih-tzu cross.

Did you know fact 2

Such an lovely environment in which to practice embodiment. SP training was offered on the UBC campus over the 6 years in which I trained.

Did you know fact 3

Nature as personal and professional self-care. This year, we stayed home and are sending support to the ​​2025 Saskatchewan Wildfires Appeal​.

Did you know fact 4

My Mom on her 84th Hallowe'en. Our relationship inspired my development of a caregiver-stress course for professionals.

Did you know fact 5

My brother decorated the therapy room with his art & I love his work in the space where we meet. (A few may recognize this piece from an album)