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”

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Having Masters degrees in Social Work and Theology, I appreciate emotional and spiritual approaches to healing – to healing the whole person. Finding or making meaning in life is personal. Respecting each person’s worldview and the place of faith in that worldview, however defined, supports our healing journeys.

Most of my professional work has responded to and supported planning, policy, programs and development in the broader community. This includes how people find themselves in community; ways of invitation, participation and belonging, of co-creating goals and actions to build meaningful community.
I am pleased to be with the Delton Glebe Counselling Centre, working with professional, compassionate, client-centred therapists and staff. At the Centre we offer various therapeutic approaches, including Play and Art therapies, and we continue the tradition of building a caring, welcoming therapeutic community open to all.

•Wilfrid Laurier University, Master of Social Work
•Wilfrid Laurier University, Master of Theological Studies
•University of Waterloo, Bachelors in Social Development Studies

All my life I’ve been dedicated to personal health in one way or another. I wanted to go to medical school, but was diagnosed with a chronic illness before I could apply and I turned the fascination I have with the human body, to the human mind in particular – what things we can accomplish with just our mind! Finding the Delton Glebe Counselling Centre feels like a match made in heaven for me as it allows me to work in the healthcare field that has always interested me. It keeps me working with people that I can help in my community, and lets me use all of the skills I’ve developed to this point in my career.

I love to read, watch movies, and have a passionate love for MasterChef Australia. I’m learning to meditate, and garden. I’m a writer, a mom, a wife and someone who’s really passionate about social justice issues!

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 one of the Intake Coordinators 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.

Life has offered me a fascinating array of experience, both personally and professionally. I have been a nutritionist, marketer, healthcare consultant, brand manager, management consultant, and a director of operations for a local non-profit. All while focusing on my most treasured work: partner, mother and active volunteer in my community. The common thread in all of this, for me, are my core personal values of integrity, compassion, wholeness, collaboration and service.
The Delton Glebe Counselling Centre, and the people who work here, are a match made in heaven for me, and I hope for you too. Timely access to high quality, affordable mental health services is what we’re all about here. Along with confidentiality, safe space, inclusivity and welcome. Spirituality is an important aspect of my mental health, and it may be for you too. Even if not, I take it as my personal mission to make your experience here one that makes you feel welcome safe, and great about coming back as you need to.

I love to spend time with my family and friends, whose presence in my life is so nourishing. I really enjoy caring for my grandson, whose nature and play keep me young. In the warm months, you can find me often outside – on the deck in my quiet space, or in the garden. Meditation and music are constant companions, as is a good book. I generally have at least three knitting projects on the go, as well as other needlework projects. I take my journaling pretty seriously too!