Please be advised our rates will be increasing $5.00 per session as of June 1st, 2023.

Mental Health Counsellor

We have Registered Social Workers and Registered Professional Counsellors within Interactive Counselling. Please ensure to review you extended health benefit coverage to ensure you are covered for our Counsellors designations. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us for assistance.


Counselling

Holly is a Registered Social Worker and has her Bachelors of Social Work Degree. She prides herself on her passion for counselling and mental health, which often landed her on the Dean’s List at Thompson River University.

Holly has a strong understanding that finding a Counsellor, and the right one for you at that, can be extremely difficult and often an intimidating task. She has such a welcoming approach with her clients, focusing solely on the person/people in front of her ensuring that anyone can feel comfortable when seeing her. Holly has a natural gift for getting her clients to lower the”wall” that they often have up, allowing them to be vulnerable in even the most difficult of situations creating an environment for clients to work through whatever they are experiencing. You will never face judgement or negative criticism, but rather support, understanding and encouragement. She believes that taking such an approach will allow you to look deeper into the issue(s), which results in a happier, healthier, and mentally strong life.

Holly offers the following sessions:

-Youth -Individuals -Couples -Family’s -Co-Parenting

Holly works with, but certainly not limited to:

-Anxiety -Depression -Stress Management -Anger Issues -Relationship Issues -Workplace Issues -Trauma and PTSD -Grief and Loss -Parenting Issues/Guidance -Youth Issues

Holly has a small family of three; herself, her husband, and her 110 lb lab husky cross! She loves getting outdoors and her dog holds her accountable to plenty of exercise outdoors! She rarely turns down an opportunity at trying a new hobby, and she has tried cake decorating, knitting, sewing, and even woodworking! Holly jokes around that she would love to take on gardening, but has yet to keep a plant alive.

Regardless of what you’re facing, Holly is excited and ready to support you through it. You will never feel alone through your journey once you have a session with Holly!

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Leanne is a Registered Social Worker with the Alberta College of Social Workers. She has worked in the Social Work field for over 30 years. She has lived in Grande Prairie for more than 20 years. Having worked in many different areas she has gained a mass of knowledge and skills to share with people.

Leanne has been a contracted service provider for 20 years for various organizations. Facilitating, educating, and supporting people in the following sectors:

• Agriculture – mental health awareness (depression, anxiety, OCD, suicide ideology)

• Schools – suicide prevention, FASD (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder), career guidance, sexual education (consent, birth control, your body/your decision)

• Seniors – Elder Abuse, guardianship, home care/nursing home decisions

• Addictions – Various addictions, Alberta Impaired Driving Program

• Workplace Stress – Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, career and employment guidance

• Women’s Shelters – trauma awareness, family dynamics, domestic abuse, self-esteem, self-worth

• Disability – FASD, Caregiver Support groups, ADHD, grief and loss

Leanne uses a person-centred approach when counselling others. The therapy techniques used are Mindfulness, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Solution Focused and Narrative therapy. These strategies help her to help people instil or rebuild hope, pride and purpose in one’s life.

Personally, Leanne is consistently non-judgmental, trustworthy and has a wicked sense of humour. Using her hands doing wood work, leather tooling, gardening or baking makes her happy. She has two adult children. Her grandsons call her Moe Moe Lee Lee, and loves to get down and play with them as much as possible.

Leanne’s motto for mental wellness: “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Peter Senga

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Angela is a Registered Social Worker and a Registered Life Coach. For the past decade, Angela has dedicated her work towards her passion of helping others get through a variety of struggles that they face throughout life. She provides them comfort, support, coping strategies, and accountability to help them work towards a more healthy and positive mental health state.

Angela works with:

  • Individuals
  • Children
  • Youth
  • Couples
  • Parenting and Co-parenting Dynamics (both families that are intact and separated)
  • Families
  • Diverse Populations

Angela supports a wide variety of issues that clients may experience such as:

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Loneliness
  • Stress Management
  • Grief and Loss
  • Anger Management
  • Self Esteem and Self Worth
  • Trauma
  • Relationship Issues
  • ADD/ADHD
  • Autism
  • Dependency Issues
  • Life Transitions
  • Parenting Struggles

Angela provides an authentic, insightful and compassionate throughout her clients mental health journey. She has a strong belief that your past does not need to dictate your future, and utilizing the tools that you work on together will be effective building blocks to aspire a better tomorrow.

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As a Clinical Therapist, Hervege believes in building a strong therapeutic alliance with individuals, families and groups anywhere between surviving to thriving.

Are you looking for a safe space to talk? Are you feeling overwhelmed, ineffective, stressed, and uncomfortable? Are you trying to make changes in unhealthy relationships and require support? If so, you have come to the right place. Hervege is here to support you and explore the barriers that are preventing you with managing stress, healing from emotional injuries and trauma, anxieties, anger, unhealthy relationships and making sense of life challenges. Together you will collaboratively figure out how to change what’s not working and find sustainable solutions to overcoming identified challenges. She supports clients in their unique journeys of self-discovery, helping them to develop their self-esteem, social, emotional and coping skills.

Hervege’s practice is rooted in an ecological systems framework and therapeutic alliance. Whether you feel stuck or need someone to understand your situation better, she believes you both share the responsibility to figure out ways to move successfully through it. She will be there to support you, gain trust, emotional safety and healing as you navigate depression, stress, anxiety, and relationship challenges including child and adolescent development and behaviour, divorce, separation, domestic abuse, trauma and substance abuse.

Her therapeutic work includes children, teens and adults and typically draws on Arts therapy, Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness, feminist approaches and trauma informed care.

Anything is possible when you have a safe space to open yourself up and see that clarity can be achieved. Hervege is a graduate from McGill University with Bachelor of Social Work (2012) and a master’s in social work (2021) with Specialization in Healthcare. Hervege also has a Double Majors Degree in Women and Gender studies with Journalism and Mass Communication (2003) and a Certificate in Family Life Education (2012) from Concordia University in Montreal. Hervege is registered with the Alberta College of Social Workers.

In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and three children who keep her very busy. Hervege enjoys travelling, cooking, and watching movies indoors. She values laughter, connection and getting to know people on a human level.

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Christian is a Registered Counsellor (CCC) with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. He graduated from Yorkville University NB with a Master’s in Counselling Psychology.

Christian has had a passion for counselling since a young age. He has witnessed many youth and adults go through traumatic experiences and wanted to ensure he could support those who needed mental health support. He has seen too many people feel depressed, hopeless and rejected by loved ones. This engrained passion has given Christian the drive to expand his knowledge to help and support those who choose him as a Counsellor.

Christian knows that life can be challenging and can be full of uncertainty, but he is honoured to be part of your therapeutic process and will walk with you to make a positive impact on your life. Together with resilience, strength and consistency, Christian is excited to help you gain the life that you want and deserve for yourself.

Christian is empathetic, supportive, and kind to his core. Choosing Christian as a Counsellor means you will be met with a non-judgemental, open, compassionate, and comforting environment.

Christian supports:

  • Youth
  • Individual Adults
  • Couples
  • Family’s
  • Co-Parenting

Christian works with a variety of issues including but not limited to:

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Youth Issues
  • Dependency Issues
  • Trauma/PTSD
  • Health Issues
  • ADD/ADHD
  • Family Issues
  • Behavioural Issues

Christian uses a wide range of methods, but finds that a counselling approach that is integrative and holistic, with a combination of CBT and mindfulness helps address each unique individual’s needs. He is focused on ensuring that his approach is what will fit each client and does not believe in a one size fits all approach.

In Christian’s leisure time, he enjoys listening to music, spending time in the gym, travelling, cooking, and visiting with friends and family.

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