Practitioners
REGISTERED PSYCHOLOGISTS & MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS
Brian Welling, MA, BA
Registered Psychologist
Brian currently sees individual adults for a wide range of issues, including, but not limited to trauma, addictions, personal growth, grief and loss, relationship and communication issues, existential issues, adjustment issues, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, personality disorders, anger management, high functioning autism, and psychosis.
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Ken Creegan, BACAP, RP, RTC, CAPT
Student Therapist
Ken is an intuitive, empathic, and compassionate therapist who is committed to helping people understand themselves and create positive and meaningful change in their lives. Ken is currently a Masters-level counselling psychology student who is completing his practicum under the supervision of Brian Welling, Registered Psychologist.
Ken draws heavily from “depth therapy” and is influenced by jungian, psychoanalytic, and gestalt perspectives while also holding a humanistic lens, which states that at their core people are ultimately good. In addition, Ken also has training in sensorimotor psychotherapy, as well as EMDR. Each professionally supervised 50-minute session with Ken is available for a $70 fee.
Katherine Dunford
Provisional Psychologist
Katherine is a provisional psychologist with a Master of Counselling degree from the University of Lethbridge. She is trained in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Eye Movement and Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Her goal is to provide help and support to those who want to break the cycle of pain and suffering, recover from adverse experiences, and live satisfying lives of wellness and joy. She uses a spiritual and holistic approach to assess and optimize all areas of an individual’s life, and this can include incorporating yoga and mindfulness meditation into her practice.
Lori Schurman
Student Therapist
Lori is a Masters-level counselling psychology student who is completing her practicum under the supervision of Brian Welling, Registered Psychologist.
Lori has a lot of experience already, which is unusual for a student therapist. She currently works professionally as a mental health therapist, serving as a member of a multi-disciplinary health team. Lori has developed and leads a weekly mindfulness practice group, facilitates psycho-educational groups, and has had extensive experience working with parents and families experiencing a variety of social and mental health concerns, including loss, grief, learning to care for a child with complex health needs, addiction, poverty, and mental illness.
Each professionally supervised 50-minute session with Lori is available for a $70 fee.
Carly Colasimone
Certified Canadian Counsellor
Carly is an empathic, thoughtful, and easy-going individual who is devoted to helping those going through stressful and difficult times. Carly has been influenced by the work of Carl Rogers, Carl Jung, and Alfred Adler. She works from a client-centered approach with the belief that clients are the experts of their own lives. She emphasizes building strong therapeutic relationships. Carly is also heavily influenced by cognitive-behavioural methods. Carly’s goal is to create a safe and supportive environment for all her clients. Her clinical interests include working with depression, stress, and anxiety.
REGISTERED MASSAGE THERAPIST
Scarlet Welling-Yiannakoulias
Registered Massage Therapist
Scarlet’s technique is slow, rhythmic, and gradual as she thoroughly treats areas of soft tissue dysfunction. She works by the principle that calming the nervous system invites muscles to soften and treatment to be most effective. Therefore, though she uses deep tissue, active release, PNF stretching, and trigger point release techniques when appropriate, the overall experience is deeply relaxing.
Tenille Tellman
Registered Massage Therapist
Tenille’s massage treatments are therapeutic in nature – blending deep tissue, myofascial release, muscle energy and relaxation techniques for a comprehensive approach. As a student at the Canadian School of Osteopathy, her treatments can include more advanced structural assessment plus craniosacral, fluid and visceral techniques, if preferred.
OSTEOPATHIC MANUAL THERAPY (OMT)
Theresa Dextrase
Osteopathic Manual Therapy (OMT)
A session with Theresa involves primarily gentle osteopathic palpation and manipulation. She hopes to bring you more in touch with how you are living in your body, and your internal resources. All work takes place within your comfort.
Theresa has been a health professional since 1995. She completed a 7-year program with the Canadian School of Osteopathy—Manual Practice (Vancouver Campus) in April of 2016. She won a research award for her thesis, A Qualitative study of the Osteopathic Manual Therapist as Educator in Clinical Practice and thus was entitled to and completed an extra year of advanced studies with the main campus of the college in Montréal, Collège d’Études Ostéopathique.