Carly Bruce

As a Registered Psychologist, I provide services from an integrative perspective. What that means is, I include various approaches to best suit your needs, challenges and stages of life. Primarily, I use Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Person-centered Therapy, and The Grief Recovery Method®

I am deeply passionate about helping people and am honored to be able to share in the healing process with my clients. I believe the therapeutic relationship between the client and myself is one of the most important elements in creating a safe place for healing and growth. I has found that clients connect with my through my accepting and non-judgement nature, sense of humour, and the resources I provide during session.

My areas of speciality include grief and loss, issues related to identity and self-worth, attachment issues, healing trauma including PTSD, and faith related issues.

I have a varied professional background. My experiences include working as a specialized elementary school teacher locally and internationally, working collaboratively with Child and Family Services, working in community mental health, and private counselling services.

I have obtained a Master of Counselling degree from City University of Seattle. I've also earned a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Alberta. I hold memberships with the College of Alberta Psychologists and Psychologist Association of Alberta.

I recently completed a two year course with Desert Streams in November 2021. Desert Streams is a healing ministry in Edmonton, Alberta. The course provided me a very in-depth and comprehensive base for Christian healing ministry.

Murray is my certified therapy dog. He's an 30 pound Australian Labradoodle and was born February 28, 2020. Murray loves to cuddle; you could say he's a professional. He is in office on Tuesday and Friday.

Murray is not a service dog that was trained to assist a certain disability or concern. Unlike service dogs, therapy dogs are encouraged to interact with a variety of people while they are on-duty including being approached and touched.