Nathalie is a Registered Counselling Psychologist with over 25 years of experience. Her experience and expertise are in helping people understand themselves, others, and the nature of problems and how to navigate them within multiple contexts, such as within families, difficult social environments, and workplaces. She loves to help people learn how to best nurture their personal health and wellness, professional and social life, and to discover their pathways to healing.
Her extensive training includes Yoga Teaching, trauma-informed care, using an anti-oppressive lens and integrated evidence-based techniques. Her aim is for clients to feel heard, understood, empowered, flourish, grow, be happy, feel safer in the world, and live with greater meaning. She offers a warm, inviting, safe and respectful space to compassionately help clients problem solve and gain an accurate perspective of life's challenges so they can feel better, facilitate change, and live with more ease. She seeks to gain full understanding of her clients to best guide and assist them with achieving their personal and professional goals through thoughtful evaluation, considerate interventions and assigning practical strategies to apply into day-to-day life. Her strong sense of intuition, high sensitivity, honesty, and many years of experience allow her to offer sound guidance while remaining humble and conscientious in her role.
She identifies as a white woman, ally to all genders, communities and people, a mom, friend, geek and nerd. She feels privileged to have worked with a rich and wide diversity of people and ages from distinctive backgrounds including youth, men, women, queer, sexuality and gender variant, of multiple ethnicities and cultures, and those who live with the impacts of their neurodiversity, physical and medical related issues and disabilities. She values and recognizes the impact of intersectionality and its unique experience for someone as they navigate their worlds. She is open to including close ones and others within the family or community as part of extending therapy support beyond traditional therapy formats.
She has worked in large and small corporate and non-profit community organizational settings, as well as in clinical, post-secondary education, community rehabilitation, and hospital settings. She feels strongly about promoting wholistic care for her clients, having experience consulting and working with many health providers including family doctors, social workers, psychiatrists, and case workers as part of an integrated treatment plan where needed.
She offers services in English and French, and is here to walk alongside her clients through life’s most difficult moments with therapeutic counselling tailored to their needs and goals.
Her extensive training includes Yoga Teaching, trauma-informed care, using an anti-oppressive lens and integrated evidence-based techniques. Her aim is for clients to feel heard, understood, empowered, flourish, grow, be happy, feel safer in the world, and live with greater meaning. She offers a warm, inviting, safe and respectful space to compassionately help clients problem solve and gain an accurate perspective of life's challenges so they can feel better, facilitate change, and live with more ease. She seeks to gain full understanding of her clients to best guide and assist them with achieving their personal and professional goals through thoughtful evaluation, considerate interventions and assigning practical strategies to apply into day-to-day life. Her strong sense of intuition, high sensitivity, honesty, and many years of experience allow her to offer sound guidance while remaining humble and conscientious in her role.
She identifies as a white woman, ally to all genders, communities and people, a mom, friend, geek and nerd. She feels privileged to have worked with a rich and wide diversity of people and ages from distinctive backgrounds including youth, men, women, queer, sexuality and gender variant, of multiple ethnicities and cultures, and those who live with the impacts of their neurodiversity, physical and medical related issues and disabilities. She values and recognizes the impact of intersectionality and its unique experience for someone as they navigate their worlds. She is open to including close ones and others within the family or community as part of extending therapy support beyond traditional therapy formats.
She has worked in large and small corporate and non-profit community organizational settings, as well as in clinical, post-secondary education, community rehabilitation, and hospital settings. She feels strongly about promoting wholistic care for her clients, having experience consulting and working with many health providers including family doctors, social workers, psychiatrists, and case workers as part of an integrated treatment plan where needed.
She offers services in English and French, and is here to walk alongside her clients through life’s most difficult moments with therapeutic counselling tailored to their needs and goals.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
- Master of Counselling, Gonzaga University
- Bachelières es Sciences, Faculté St. Jean, University of Alberta
- Advanced Skills in Mindfulness Based Interventions
- Cultural Safety and Inclusiveness
- Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Radical Exposure Tapping (RET)
- Solution Focused Therapy
- Telehealth Practice and Cybercounselling
- Trauma-Informed Care
- Yoga Teacher Certification, Yoga Association of Alberta
PROFESSIONAL LICENSING & AFFILIATIONS
- Registered Psychologist with the College of Alberta Psychologists
- Member of the American Psychological Association
- Member of the Psychologists Association of Alberta
- Member of the Society of Clinical Psychology, Division of the American Psychological Association
- Member with the Global Network of Psychologists for Human Rights
- Instructor and Life Member of the Yoga Association of Alberta
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HOW TO CONNECT WITH NATHALIE
You may reach Nathalie in the following ways:
- call our clinic number at 780-466-0027
- call directly on her confidential cell at 587-982-7082
- book a complimentary 20 minute phone/online Discovery Call
CRISIS RESOURCES
Services through Back Be Nimble Wellness Collective are not for crisis intervention or emergencies which are times of danger when immediate assistance is required.
Most crisis services are offered 24/7 by phone, online chat and in many different languages. Please refer to the list below for resources you may access in a crisis situation.
CALL 911
CALL 211
CALL 811
ADDITIONAL NUMBERS which can be called if you or someone you know is in crisis:
24-Hour Distress Line 780-482-HELP (4357)
Mental Health Help Line (Alberta) 1-877-303-2642
Family | In-home | Child | Persons in Care Abuse (Alberta) 310-1818
Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868
HELPFUL WEBSITES
MyHealth.Alberta.ca for health information, supports and tools
Talk Suicide Canada to connect with a crisis responder
Free Telephone Counselling Hotlines in Canada
Culturally focused crisis supports - provided by LifeVoice. These contain supports for the general public. However, they also include specialized pages for Indigenous peoples, and those who identify as 2SLGBTQ+. Additional pages focus on youth, those experiencing a postpartum mood disorder, and those experiencing a pregnancy or infant loss.
Most crisis services are offered 24/7 by phone, online chat and in many different languages. Please refer to the list below for resources you may access in a crisis situation.
CALL 911
- if you or someone else is in immediate danger
CALL 211
- 211 Alberta is a 24/7 helpline and online database of Alberta’s community and social services. 211 is answered and updated by highly-trained specialists.
CALL 811
- 811 is Alberta Health Services Health Link, a 24/7 helpline for medical and physical health along with mental health related concerns, such as finding a family physician or when experiencing concerning symptoms.
ADDITIONAL NUMBERS which can be called if you or someone you know is in crisis:
24-Hour Distress Line 780-482-HELP (4357)
Mental Health Help Line (Alberta) 1-877-303-2642
Family | In-home | Child | Persons in Care Abuse (Alberta) 310-1818
Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868
HELPFUL WEBSITES
MyHealth.Alberta.ca for health information, supports and tools
Talk Suicide Canada to connect with a crisis responder
Free Telephone Counselling Hotlines in Canada
Culturally focused crisis supports - provided by LifeVoice. These contain supports for the general public. However, they also include specialized pages for Indigenous peoples, and those who identify as 2SLGBTQ+. Additional pages focus on youth, those experiencing a postpartum mood disorder, and those experiencing a pregnancy or infant loss.