Hiedi provides a northern trauma-informed lens to our psychological services. Having grown up in north, being formally educated in Alberta, and working in both Alberta and NWT Hiedi has experience working with wide diversity of clients including specializing working with Indigenous youth, adults, and families. Hiedi has a BA Psychology, University of Alberta, After-degree Certificate in Advanced Mental Health, Mt. Royal University, Master of Counselling Psychology Degree, University of Calgary. Hiedi has 18+yrs experience working in various counselling and clinical capacities in justice, education, and community mental health and private practice. As a client-centred and strengths-based Psychologist Hiedi works with youth, adults, and couples to meet their therapy goals and needs. She works with clients in all areas of mental health and wellness including but not limited to: depression, anxiety, grief and loss, building healthier relationships, coping with relationship conflict, separation, and break-down, unresolved anger, stress, life transitions & change, health/medical, adjustment, and parenting issues, childhood and residential school trauma, identity development, self-growth, and clinical disorders. Hiedi specializes in working with persons affected by trauma using (AEDP) Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, (EMDR) Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, progressive exposure therapy, and of some aspects (CBT) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She has been working with Indigenous, Metis, Inuit clients with complex trauma due to residential school, 60’s scoop, MMIG, intergenerational violence and addiction as a FNIB provider for approximately 8years. Hiedi is a Level II AEDP therapist, certified EMDR therapist, and Certified (EFT) Emotion Focussed Therapist (Individual and Couples). Hiedi seeks to empower client strengths and resilience, while identifying the adaptive tendencies (defenses) that have helped clients to survive in their lives thus far - but may no longer be working for them today. Working collaboratively at a pace that fosters safety and transparency in the therapeutic relationship, Hiedi encourages growth, healing, and transformation.