Celeste completed her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at MacEwan University and her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University.

Celeste has nearly a decade of experience working frontline within educational, home, community, and private practice settings with children, adolescents, and adults. She utilizes a variety of evidence-based approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT, and Trauma-Focused CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Play-Based Therapy, Somatic Regulation interventions, and The Grief Recovery Method®. She has received additional education and training on supporting children, families, and caregivers with a focus on social emotional tools and strategies.

Celeste is a Registered Circle of Security® Parent Facilitator (COS-P) and Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®. She also has experience facilitating psychoeducational parenting groups to Headstart families, and numerous mental health trainings geared towards home visitors and family support workers around the province.

College of Alberta Psychologists, the Psychologists’ Association of Alberta, and the Canadian Association for Play Therapy.

My experience with loss of various forms have highlighted how overwhelming it can feel to be stuck in grief, as well as the loneliness that can accompany the ever-changing journey through loss. These experiences drive me in my support of those who are processing their own losses, to provide an authentic, warm, and open space in which to heal.

As a Provisional Psychologist, I use an integrative approach to pull from different modalities and techniques to meet my clients’ individual needs. Having worked extensively with children and their caregivers, I strongly believe in an approach that emphasizes the importance of connection and emotional expression. Within the therapeutic support I provide, I believe in empowering each person I sit with to draw upon their internal strengths and resources, while providing compassionate therapeutic support. I believe it is necessary to meet each person where they are at, while recognizing that there is strength and possibility that can be drawn from within, even when grieving. As a heart-centered therapist, I view my role as a guide on the side of my clients’ path of healing. In this way I adopt a non-judgmental approach that emphasizes my clients as the expert of their own life and experiences.

In my free time I enjoy exploring other countries and cultures, reading, spending time with my loved ones, and playing with my senior Dachshund.