Cindy is a Registered Psychologist and works with adults for individual therapy. Cindy works from a person-centered, compassionate approach, primarily using EMDR therapy, EMDR-derived Flash Technique, and Cognitive Behavioural therapy, with some Solution-Focused, as needed.
Cindy strives to create a caring, safe, collaborative, and non-judgemental environment for clients to explore growth and change. She believes clients have strength, resiliency, and resources to work through life’s challenges, as well as the ability to learn new perspectives, skills, and resources when necessary. Cindy helps guide clients to enhance personal growth, healthy habits, and meet identified goals.
From small to big life experiences, some of these can leave a lasting trauma impact that shape our emotional, physical, and behavioural responses in ways that interfere with living life optimally. This can look like anxiety and/or panic, depression, feeling overwhelmed, difficulties with sleep and concentration, having a hard time with boundaries, experiencing anger, and more. Trauma, whether big or small, can come from many different life experiences, such as motor vehicle accidents, loss (in many forms), sexual/physical/emotional abuse, difficult childhoods, bullying, challenging relationships, and more. Symptoms from these lasting experiences can be overwhelming and confusing. Cindy can help you navigate through this and move towards a deeper and more meaningful path of healing, and to more current and optimal ways of living your life.
Training and Qualifications
Cindy has a Master Degree in Counselling Psychology and with over ten years of training, experience, and volunteering, has extensive knowledge dealing with issues of trauma, anxiety, panic, depression, phobias, stress management, suicide, grief, boundaries, assertiveness, and self esteem. Cindy constantly attends workshops and training seminars to expand her knowledge and experience to give clients specialized, therapeutic treatment based on research-informed practice.
Cindy is a member of the following associations:
• College of Alberta Psychologists
• Canadian Psychological Association
Areas of Interest and Speciality
• Trauma – which may include experiences such as:
o Motor vehicle accidents
o Physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse
o Phobias
o Assaults
o Bullying
o Breaches of trust in relationships
• Grief and loss
• Boundaries and assertiveness
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Self Esteem
Is Cindy the best therapist for you?
• Cindy takes a non-judgemental and collaborative approach to therapy and appreciates when you can participate in talking about what is working and not working for you.
• As a therapist, Cindy is calm and compassionate and can be direct and directive when needed, usually in a gentle way. She likes to be transparent with you about what therapy is going to look like and what the benefits and challenges are and how these will impact your life.
• Cindy typically works best with a client who wants to understand and work on resolving the root of their issues for more permanent, positive changes, rather than engage solely in symptom management.
• Primarily, Cindy works with evidence-based strategies (i.e. EMDR, CBT).
