Services

 

Coaching & Consulting

Driving development, accountability, and performance.

Mediation

Facilitating a collaborative, interest-based and transformative conflict-resolution process that, when individuals are willing, results in consensus - win/wins. Areas of specialization include civil and family mediation, and traditional healing circles.

Michelle has worked with parents in high-level conflict to learn to re-frame and focus on what they need to do to meet their child’s best interest, that is to establish consensus on parenting arrangements. Other areas of mediation include mediating and collaborating on child welfare matters in the area of family reunification, and labour disputes in unionized environments.

Counselling & Mental Health

Working with children, families, and organizations to enhance health, wellness, and relationships for individuals, families and organizations.

Michelle also specializes in Trauma Therapy, and is trained in EMDR Therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). More info on EMDR can be found HERE.

Providing counselling and teaching on emotional regulation, communicating respectfully, being safe, engaging and building supports. Experience working with meeting and supporting individuals who are overwhelmed by grief, anger, anxiety, depression, and stress to find ways to manage and self-regulate to improve quality of life and wellness.

Michelle began working in the area of Child and Youth Mental Health in 2018, and has accumulated over 1200 clinical hours working with children, youth and family systems. Michelle works to engage caregiver systems to identify ways to enhance mental health and wellness outcome drawing from Emotion-focused Family Therapy (EFT) methods. Michelle has worked in the area of family reunification and rehabilitation, and restoration when families become involved with Ministry of Children and Family Development and Criminal Justice system. Michelle is also trained in Minuchin Structural Family Therapy (SFT). Michelle is trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), an effective tool in Trauma Therapy.