Meet our Facilitators

 

 

Our Facilitators

Katie Poirier

Psychologist

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Katie is a Registered Psychologist with the College of Alberta Psychologists and has been working in the field for over 10 years. In this role, she believes her priority is to hold what is well in her clients and help them find what they want to flourish. Her particular passions and areas of specialty are in the realm of eating disorders, sexual assault/abuse, and trauma. Katie believes in helping clients grow and flourish through a client-centered framework that emphasizes equality and empowerment. She brings compassion and humour to therapy and strives to create an open and collaborative space for all to be heard. Outside of her client work, Katie values spending time with her partner & three kiddos (twins plus one!), as well as leaning into her creative outlets.  Although Katie calls Alberta home, her roots are in New Brunswick and she wears that proudly! Click here to learn more about Katie’s approach.

Selene Yan

Registered Dietitian

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Selene is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor with over 10 years of experience. She specializes in working with eating disorders and body image concerns. She helps individuals tune inwards so they may better understand and attend to their body’s needs. Selene works from a trauma-informed and weight-inclusive lens. Her approach is guided by her training in mindfulness, yoga, embodied recovery, and somatic experiencing. Her goal is to help individuals cultivate a satisfying and safe relationship with food and body. You can find her online here: embodiedRD.com or on Instagram: @embodiedRD

Kalin Herbach

Registered Dietitian

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Kalin is a weight-inclusive Registered Dietitian and co-founder of The Nourish Collective. She specializes in eating disorder recovery, and also helps folks heal from disordered eating. She is deeply passionate about helping individuals replace judgement and punishment with compassion and curiosity. Kalin feels so grateful that she is able to do this work, and form meaningful relationships with her clients.

Carol Fredrek

Registered Psychologist

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Carol is a Registered Psychologist who specializes in eating disorders, body image, anxiety, depression, and trauma. For over 2 decades, she has offered skilled and caring therapy.  Carol incorporates research-proven therapy approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT Tapping). To learn more about her approach, visit this page. Be at peace with yourself.  Be at peace with food, your body, and your weight.  To learn more, visit her website at healingmatters.ca.

Sara Kreklewich

Occupational Therapist

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Sara is a registered Occupational Therapist, and the former Disordered Eating Consultant for Central Alberta for ten years. She is passionate about the area of mental health and believes in empowering clients to achieve their goals. She currently works in hospital and community mental health settings and has diverse skills, training and experience.
Sara has a strong interest and knowledge base in the area of disordered eating, depression, anxiety and relationship issues.

Karen Wadson

Psychologist

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Karen is a registered psychologist in Calgary with over 10 years of counselling experience. She practices from a client centered approach, which views the client as the expert on their own life, and she draws interventions from psycho-dynamic, CBT, solution focused and narrative therapies to assist clients in making the changes they would like to have in their lives. Her particular area of specialization is in the area of disordered eating and body image. She holds advanced training in the treatment of eating disorders through the International Association of Eating Disorder Prevention (IAEDP).

Chantelle Jensen

Registered Nurse

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Chantelle Jensen is a Registered Nurse based out of the Calgary area. She has 11 years experience nursing and has worked with Eating Disorders starting in 2012. Her nursing background includes inpatient Eating Disorders at Foothills Hospital, all levels of care associated with the Calgary Eating Disorder Program, Adolescent Mental Health, Addictions and Forensics. Chantelle holds certificates in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Mindfulness, and Trauma informed care.

Mo Bamuwagun

Registered Social Worker

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Mo is a Registered Social Worker with a clinical specialization in adult mental health and addictions. She was born in Nigeria, West Africa and started her work within mental health from there. She has worked with individuals, families, couples and young adults across the lifespan and across various mental health and addiction concerns. From the beginning of her career, she has had intersectional encounters with disordered eating of various kinds, both within the BIPOC community and the wider population. In her current roles, both as a mental health therapist with AHS and in her private practice, she has continued to encounter concerning presentations of disordered eating. Her approach to therapy is centered on being weight inclusive, body positive, intuitive and importantly, being curious about intersecting interactions between systems and the individual. She is trained in a wide range of therapeutic interventions and is a licensed Trauma Therapist.

Vanessa LaPrairie

 Psychologist &  Yoga Facilitator

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Vanessa is a Registered Psychologist and Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator. She came to
being on the Traditional Territories of the Kaksa Dena and Kwanlin Dun in the Yukon. She now
resides in Moh’kinstsis (Calgary, Alberta) on Treaty 7 Territory. They live with their partner (Nate
the Artist), dog (Jolene the Beagle), and horse (River the Appaloosa). Vanessa’s work primarily
involves treatment for trauma-related disorders, eating disorders, and addictions at Northland
Psychology as well as facilitating trauma sensitive yoga. She received her foundational yoga
training at the Akhanda Yoga Institute in Rishikesh, India and later trained in Trauma Center
Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) with the Center for Trauma and Embodiment at the Justice
Resource Institute. Vanessa enjoys sharing her love for yoga and recovery as well as spending
time in nature with her animals.