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Welcome

This branch of DPS is where a team of trained therapists, ranging from new to senior-level therapists (psychologists, counsellors), are available to help you navigate life storms and to offer support to enhance your mental health. We aim to offer everyone a high degree of ethical, competent, trauma-informed care, sensitive to diversity and focuses on understanding your perspective and needs.

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Our Services For Adult

Our wonderful therapists have built themselves many skills to help various individuals through life storms. Here are just some of what our compassionate and ethical therapists can provide you. 

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Involves moving your eyes a specific way while processing traumatic memories. 

Somatic Experiencing

Aimed to help treat trauma

and stress-related disorders through a bottom-up processing (release of survival energy stuck in the body). 

Transactional Analysis

Discover our ego states (our personality and how it has been shaped by experience) and how to growth and change from our previous experiences.

Play Therapy

Utilizing play in which to help express emotions and thoughts more easily rather than words.

Expressive Arts

Utilizing creative expression (e.g., drawing, painting, etc.) to help heal the body and mind.

Attachment Therapy

Helps to target interpersonal challenges through the exploration of early childhood attachment experiences. 

CBT

Helps with learning to identify, question, and change 

thoughts, attitudes and beliefs related to emotional and behavioural reactions.

DBT

Involves teaching skills to learn how to accept and adapt to changes through emotional and social aspects.

Things To Know About Our Services

1

What are the fees
for this service?

  • Our fees follow the Psychological Association of Alberta recommended fee guide: $220 for 50 to 60 minutes.

  • We have reserved several slots of substantial fee discounts (sliding scale), and there is a waiting list for these slots. 

2

How do I connect
with a therapist?

  • For new clients you will want to book a discovery call meeting with the therapist of your choosing. These discovery calls usually last about 15 mins. and will be done via phone or online (via Zoom). 

  • Our therapists want to be as accessible as they can be so all of our services will be through phone or online (via Zoom). We are currently in the process of looking at in-person services, though it is still in the development stage. 

3

What is the first
meeting like?

  • During your first meeting, time will be dedicated to ensuring you know how your therapist will have your back, as you have many rights as a client. 

  • As your caring therapist learns about you and your challenges, they will check on how well you are sleeping and coping and inquire about who/what may be helping and hindering you. 

  • You will control the pace of the session and remain in charge of what you want to share or not share. 

  • We know it can be very challenging to set goals when you are experiencing struggles, so the first session is about connect, understanding, and offering hope. 

Get in Touch

Thank you for submitting! We will connect with you in 2-3 days. If you have not heard from us then please reach back out to our admin. team: admin@dawn-mcbride.com.

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