We believe that:

• Talking helps.
• Along with talking, other ways of addressing your concerns (art or play therapy for example) can be helpful.
• Challenges in life are opportunities for learning and growth.
• You bring your life experiences, values and beliefs into the therapy process. These together with the therapist’s personal and professional experiences can address your concerns.
• Everyone has the right to receive mental health services.
• Some of your concerns will resolve in a few sessions while others may take longer. The amount of time in therapy is determined by you and your therapist.
• When clients and therapists work together, healing and change can happen.
• Faith and spirituality can be important resources for healing and change.

Therapy is an opportunity for the therapist and client to collaboratively work together to address the client’s present concerns. Clients come with life experiences and self- knowledge that together with the support and professional resources of a therapist can address the necessary healing and change. It is a privilege to accompany clients in their healing and change process.

Ordained Lutheran Pastor, ELCIC, Pastoral Counselling Specialist and Teaching Supervisor, CASC, EMDR

Working with Couples, healing from traumatic experiences, anxiety, depression, life’s transitions, grief/loss, interpersonal concerns, questions of identity.

University of Calgary, Bachelor of Science (Psychology)
• Lutheran Theological Seminary, Master of Divinity
• University of Alberta, PhD, Education
• Dissertation title “The Pastoral Counselling Students’ Experience Of Learning To Be Present With Their Client”

I am very excited to join the Glebe as the new Executive Director. Through collaboration and partnership with the community, I hope to move forward the inspirational work my predecessors have accomplished. I am committed to increased accessibility to service excellence through accountability, compassion and competence. Clients put their trust in us and we aim to hold that sacred.

I have worked in the fields of Child Welfare, Domestic Violence, Mental Health and Addictions, Community Healthcare, Post Secondary Education and Brain Injury. My roles have included research and senior leadership

BA Hons, Psychology & Social Science specialising in Brain Development, Motivation and Child Development.

BSW specializing in Community Development

MA,ed- Adult Education and Leadership

Certified Family Mediator, specializing in Family Group Conferencing, Divorce and Child Custody, Project Manager, Green Belt level

Registered Social Worker

Advocacy, compassionate care, community, personal knowledge and faith are all core values for me. In the early 1990’s I was thrown into the AIDS crisis and entered a community of people facing a deadly disease with no treatments and a society that treated those with this disease with anger, judgement and fear. For 25 years I worked building support systems, fighting stigma and judgement, and working in the areas of education and prevention and support. Key to the support work was the provision of mental health services to those dying from and living with AIDS and to those who loved them. Grief, anger, multiple bereavements and survivor guilt all require compassionate and professional support. With the advance of effective treatments and the development of well qualified support systems I felt it was time for me to transition into a different sort of support work. As the Office Manage and Intake Coordinator at the Glebe I am able to still work in a community that reflects my core values. Connecting people to caring, affordable and professional therapists is a privilege and deeply satisfying. It is my pleasure to be part of a team of people providing our community with much needed mental health support in a non-judgemental and compassionate atmosphere.

I’m a loving Oma to nine grandkids, I enjoy CrossFit, kayaking and biking. I’m an avid reader and avoid crafting at all costs.