Meet The Team

Specializes in mood and relationships (with self and others) 

Works with clients 12 and over

 

Lisa Lazenby has been a Registered Psychologist since 2005. She specializes in helping clients from diverse backgrounds
experience feelings of anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship challenges. Her therapeutic approach is integrative, drawing from modalities including family systems, cognitive-
behavioural, and solution-focused therapies. She will tailor these therapies to your unique needs and work collaboratively with you to cultivate self-awareness, relational understanding, resilience, and healthy coping strategies. Whether you’re facing a life transition, dealing with trauma, struggling with self-esteem,
managing mental health concerns, or looking to enhance your relationships, Lisa is here to provide a safe and non-judgmental space for exploration, healing and growth. As a trained Marital & Family Therapy, she also supports couples and families. 

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Fees: $200 per 50-minute session

Works directly with NIHB and insurance providers.

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Book in directly with Lisa HERE

Specializes in trauma and addictions 

Works with clients 18 and over

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With a background in counselling education and training at undergraduate and graduate levels, Cindy brings to her counselling a depth of knowledge and skill combined with an intense focus on cultural sensitivity.

Cindy's passion lies in working with trauma/intergenerational trauma, addictions, anxiety, depression, family dynamics, grief/loss and interpersonal violence.

Cindy works from a deeply compassionate relational approach with a focus to support client healing, growth and change.  She embraces the counselling experience as a partnership process to facilitate client independence and autonomy.

Some of the modalities for trauma treatment include EMDR, sensorimotor psychotherapy and IFS (Internal Family Systems).  Other treatment modalities include EFT (Emotional Focused Therapy), CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Solution Focused Therapy and ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy).

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Fees: $200 per 50-minute session

Works directly with NIHB and insurance providers.

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Specializes in Borderline Personality Disorder, Mood disorders and instability.

Works with adults 18 and older

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Peter is passionate about helping others develop enhanced ways of understanding life problems and offering treatments for various types of recurrent pain and suffering. He is skilled in treating Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). He is otherwise prepared to assist with understanding how various mental health disorders come about and what you can do about it. He is equipped to assist you with becoming stable, skillful, and self-confident using evidence-based approaches. He takes a compassionate approach to all treatment scenarios and is ready to support you in meeting your goals by offering a tailored treatment plan.

 

Most of Peter's therapeutic experience has come through working with adults one-on-one, as well as with couples. His treatment approach typically includes elements of Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Peter's approach encourages ongoing self-reflection, skill practice and mastery, and the development of emotional intelligence.

 

Peter understands the feelings of guilt and shame that often accompanies mental health difficulties. At the same time, he knows that learning breeds compassion and that this opens the door for adjusting to life experience. He invites clients to move towards a place of improved self-awareness and functioning through learning and application of vital skill sets.

 

Peter achieved his Master's Degree in Counselling Psychology in 2008 from the University of Calgary. He has been studying psychology since 1997 and has been honing his mental health practitioner skills since 2009. He became a Registered Psychologist in Alberta, Canada in 2012. After years of learning and gaining practical experience, he has developed a deep understanding of the internal and external dynamics of commonly experienced mental health disorders.

 

Peter recognizes that many of the contributing factors to mental health disorders often go unrecognized, misunderstood, and mismanaged and that this results in increasing, persisting, and worsening difficulties over time. He has an intimate understanding of mental health difficulties. 

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Fees: $200 per 50-minute session.

Works directly with NIHB and insurance providers.

Assessment fees are tailored to your needs. 

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Book in directly with Peter click HERE.

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Specializes in trauma and addictions 

Works with clients 16 and over

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Revekka has been a Registered Psychologist since 2003 and has honed her skills in the area of treating trauma and addictions but holds experience and skill in supporting mood disorders, anxiety, depression and grief. She uses an integrated counselling therapeutic approach, incorporating principles of Existential Therapy, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and Solution Focused Therapy within a trauma-informed, developmental, relational and cultural framework. This framework enables her to more thoroughly and respectfully understand one's experiences, responses/adaptation and change(s) sought and to provide responsive support accordingly.

If you are experiencing challenges and considering reaching out for counselling support, Revekka would be honoured to join you in your journey with compassionate listening, understanding and responsive support.

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Fees: $200 per 50-minute session

Works directly with NIHB and insurance providers.

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Specializes in ADHD and supporting Men

Works with all ages and couples 

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Olakunle specializes in working with men but is comfortable supporting a diverse population.  He has worked with clients who deal with mood, stress, low self-esteem, and assisted clients in learning how to live well while managing a mental illness. He has also worked with couples and families to help re-establish positive connections. Olakunle is currently taking on new clients as well as ADHD/Mood assessments. 

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Fees: $200 per 50-minute session

Works directly with NIHB and insurance providers.

Assessment fee's are tailored to your needs. 

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Book in directly with Olakunle HERE

Specializes in getting unstuck and support in relationships

Works with adults and couples

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Rosie specializes in working with clients to process past negative events and to move on from them, while giving them a framework for the future. She uses psychodynamic, attachment and processing techniques to enable clients to assess what past events are driving them to help reduce their impact. Clients will find they will be less activated, be able to connect better with others and have improved moods. 

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Fees: $200 per 50-minute session

Assessment fee's are tailored to your needs. 

Works directly with NIHB and insurance providers.

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Specializes in supporting dysfunctional sleep, relationship to food and pain management/somatic experiences.

 

Works with children and adults

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 Christine Gatzke, M.Ed. (Counselling), M.Ed. (Psych), Registered Provisional Psychologist in Alberta and an international/national speaker 

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Nearing 19+ years of clinical experience, Christine works with individuals, couples, and families ranging from 5-80+ years old. She obtained her first M.Ed. in Counselling from the University of Ottawa, she received post-graduate training in Gestalt Psychotherapy via the Gestalt Institute of Ottawa. In 2015, she was granted another M.Ed. (in School and Counselling Psychology) from the University of Saskatchewan. Trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Christine is certified in working with Children and Families via the Hincks-Dellcrest Institute in Toronto. Christine specializes and is trained in
Adoption, Adoption Reunion and Foster Care Counselling, via The Carlini Institute and Algonquin College. In addition, Christine obtained both beginner/advanced certificates in
Dyadic Development Psychotherapy (for attachment issues and behavioural difficulties) with Dr. Daniel Hughes and Infertility Counselling Certification via Tape Educational Services. A certified Life and Career Coach via the Certified Coaches Federation, she also completed Advanced Levels of Expressive Arts Therapy with Dr. Cathy Malchiodi. Currently, she has completed two beginner module levels in Somatic Experiencing Training, as devised by Dr. Peter Levine (ongoing studies until completion in 2024). Using a collaborative and eclectic approach with clients, she specializes in (but not limited to):  mood, abuse(incl. narcissistic abuse), sleep concerns, adoption/foster care, grief & loss, pain management, and life coaching/career/school and learning concerns.

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A motto that she abides by, and assists clients to do so, in achieving their goals, is to: Live, Laugh, and Love.

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Fees: $200 per 50-minute session

Works directly with insurance providers

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Languages spoken: English and French

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Book in directly with Christine HERE

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Specializes in grief and loss, communication and anger management. 

Works with teens and adults. 

 

Kate is a Registered Psychologist with a Masters degree in Counselling from the University of Calgary.  She has over 10 years of experience counselling clients from diverse backgrounds, including working in community mental health, employee and family assistance counselling, rehabilitation and disability psychology treatment, and school-based mental health.  

Kate's area of specialty includes working with anxiety and depression, grief and loss, management of chronic illness and pain, and couples/relationship therapy.  Kate enjoys helping people find their sense of purpose and presence in their lives and relationships.  Her approach is to to help you feel heard through acceptance and validation of your emotions, and work with you to identify strategies to help you begin feeling and living your life differently.  

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Kate has experience working with children, teens, and adults throughout the lifespan.  She draws primarily from acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, emotion focused therapy, and solution focused therapy.  Her goal is to help you make meaningful changes in your life.  Therapy sessions will include a combination of having space to share your feelings while also being invited to try new skills and strategies within and between sessions. 

Areas of practice: Anxiety, depression, anger management, stress management, grief and loss, coping with chronic pain, illness and disability, self-esteem, communication skills, conflict management, and relationship and couples counselling.  

 

Fees: $200 per 50-minute session

Works directly with NIHB and insurance providers.

Language spoken: English

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Book in directly with Kate by clicking HERE

Specializes in executive functioning and mood

Works with teens and adults

Alexis Haws is passionate about helping others. She has extensive experience working in mental health crisis work and is keen to help in those moments that follow the crisis, the time when healing takes place. Whether you are struggling with the ups and downs of emotions or feel that you have some past experiences to heal, Alexis may be a great fit for you. 

 

Alexis has experience with and a passion for helping people struggling with:

 

• Emotional reactivity

• Emotional sensitivity

• Mood fluctuations

• Nightmares

• Flashbacks

• Suicidal ideation

• Self-harm

• Interpersonal communication 

• Attention 

• Executive functioning

• Anger outbursts

• Impulsivity 

• Stress management 

• Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

• Bipolar Disorder

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

 

Alexis supports teens (age 14+) and adults from emerging to middle adulthood. She supports people of all genders and is an ally to the LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC communities. 

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Alexis is trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and provides DBT-informed therapy on a one-to-one basis. This therapy helps improve one’s skills in mindfulness, emotional regulation, interpersonal effectiveness and distress tolerance. 

 

Alexis is also trained in Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), a tool for healing from the past. The aim of this work is to become less influenced by your past in your present and to feel less distress overall. 

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Outside the office, you can find Alexis practicing yoga and volunteering at music festivals. 

 

Fees are $200 per 50-minute session.

 

Language spoken: English

 

Alexis is not currently taking on new clients.

Specializes in assessments.

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Crystal is an Alberta Registered Psychologist.  Crystal is one of Red Cedar Alberta's assessors and works in a counselling capacity primarily with youth and adults looking for support in mood, burnout, parenting and executive functioning.

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Fees: $200 per 50-minute session

Assessment fees are tailored to your needs. 

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Book with Crystal; please email admin@redcedaralberta.com to discuss assessment options and counselling availability.

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*Crystal is currently not taking on any new counselling clients*

Generalist

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Jocelynne is also Red Cedar's generalist. She has over 12 years of experience as an ADAC counsellor and working with individuals across the lifespan, from youth to seniors with mental health challenges. 

Areas of practice: 

Mood, behavioural issues, abuse, grief, life transition, relationship issues, mood disorders, self-esteem, suicidal ideation, and Mindfulness. 

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Fees: $180 per 50-minute session

*Sliding scale available upon request

 

BOOK IN WITH JOCELYNN HERE

Erin is an Alberta-registered Speech-Language Pathologist with years of experience. 

 

Erin works with children aged 0-18 in the areas of language, articulation, phonology, pragmatics, motor planning, and fluency and has a special passion for supporting our “late talkers”. She has worked with children with many unique gifts and challenges (childhood apraxia of speech, cleft palate, hearing loss to name a few) AND is Hanen Certified SLP (which means that she has specialized training with early language skills) AND has completed some extra training for Childhood Apraxia of Speech.  

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BOOK IN WITH ERIN HERE!