“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.” – Eckhart Tolle

Adam Elkestawi is a Provisional Psychologist who holds a master’s degree in Counselling Psychology. He has worked for more than 7 years with the adult vulnerable population providing housing options, crisis & trauma counselling, and suicide intervention. More recently Adam has worked with children and young adults with behavioral and mental health concerns.

Adam has utilized the Client Centered, Solution focused, and CBT approaches. With extensive experience working with individuals with anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma, he appreciates the power of mindfulness practices that help individuals focus on the present moment.

Adam loves to understand people and believes it is one of the best ways to empower individual under his care to own their journey and help them heal.

In his free time, Adam enjoys engaging in deep conversations with friends and aspires to have his own podcast someday. He also enjoys volleyball, exercising, reading and karaoke.

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Juliana Hupsel has a Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology and an Undergraduate Degree in Psychology. She became a psychologist driven by the goal to help people. This drive came from her personal experience of having grown so much as a person after attending counselling during her teenage years.

Juliana has been practicing for more than 18 years, with six of those years being a counselling practice in Canada. She is an evidence-based practitioner with training and experience working with children, teenagers, and adults. Juliana had practiced in several fields, including private practice, educational settings, and health care. She has experience providing crisis intervention and dealing with individuals with acute stress. Her training includes models such as Psychodynamics, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Couples Counselling (Gottman Training 1 and 2), Trauma, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Culturally-informed approaches.

She is able to deliver counselling either in English, Portuguese or Spanish, making it easier for clients to express themselves in their preferred language.

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Are you looking at being the best version of yourself despite your lived experience, then you are at the right place. Patience is a Social Worker, registered with the Alberta College of Social Workers. She has a Master Degree of Social Work from the University of Calgary as well as a Bachelor of Social Work. Patience has a wide variety of experience providing services to individuals from diverse backgrounds for over a decade and has been providing therapy service for the past 9 years. It is her passion to support individuals to meet their goals. It is part of Patience’s expertise to work with individuals with a wide variety of challenges in their lives, including addiction, anxiety, depression, stress, OCD, parenting, trauma, burnout, and self-esteem.

Patience is specialized in providing services to individuals, families, youths, couples, and groups, using a trauma lens approach and client centered interventions, such as Solution-focused approaches, CBT, DBT, Narrative Therapy, ACT, among others. Patience’s goal in each session is to help individuals identify issues that get them stuck and work in developing practical strategies to overcome them, building a life worth living. No matter what your goal is, Patience is available to walk alongside you to help you discover your hidden potential.

In her free time, Patience likes running, watching movies and reading.

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Donna has a master’s degree in Clinical Social Work and has been a practicing mental health therapist since 2015. Before becoming a psychotherapist, she taught high school in Houston, Texas, specializing in academically, behaviourally and legally probated high school students. In addition to working as a therapist in private practice, Donna also works as an inpatient clinician in acute psychiatry for Alberta Health Services where she has been mentored by psychiatrists who specialize in personality disorders, trauma, addiction, anxiety and mood disorders.

Donna takes a neurobiological and family systems approach to help clients understand the way thoughts and beliefs impact emotions and drive behaviours. Partnering with the client to challenge unhelpful beliefs (which may contribute to anxiety, depression and relationship challenges) can help clients get unstuck and more focused on healthy functioning and personal growth.

In addition to being certified in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (trauma therapy), Donna is also trained in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy and Narrative Therapy.

Donna is also certified in Brené Brown’s Daring Way™ and Rising Strong™ curriculum. She incorporates Dr. Brown’s research on shame and vulnerability in the counselling process

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