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WHO WE ARE

Welcome To Collective
Healing Centre

Welcome to the Collective Healing Centre, where your well-being journey is our priority. We are dedicated to providing truly Individualized Support that meets you where you are, delivered with compassion. Our team utilizes comprehensive holistic expertise alongside evidence-based approaches, ensuring you receive high-quality psychological and counselling services. We believe mental health care must be accessible and available to you, making it simple to find the specialized support you need, right when you need it.

OUR MISSION

Collective Healing Centre offers specialized, low-cost counselling and psychological services for individuals, couples, families, and groups. We support children, youth, adults, and seniors, providing inclusive care across all stages of life.

At the heart of our work is a core belief: true healing and growth emerge through connection, connection to ourselves, to one another, and to the world around us.​

OUR PHILOSOPHY

While a forest is filled with diversity and trees of varying species, shapes and sizes, every tree requires sun, water and nutrients to grow. In order to achieve its full potential, it must reach taller to capture the available sunlight, and expand its roots to absorb the nutrients from it’s environment.

There is no one factor or characteristic that allows a tree to stand tall amongst the others, but a confluence of factors that contributes to the health, well-being and longevity of the tree. It is inevitable the forest will be impacted by factors beyond its control and each tree will experience stressors; however a tree is able to endure with the support of its natural protective factors, root system and the trees surrounding it.

At the Collective Healing Centre, we offer and empower you to explore a variety of supports that can encourage healing or enhance growth. Support ranges from group work where we shed light on skills and strategies that can help us grow together, to individual sessions where we offer individualized support to accelerate your growth, or assist in healing from prolonged stressors or an adverse event.

We invite you to explore the variety of ways we strive to strengthen every tree, and support each other in seeing the forest for its trees and all the beauty within it.

Our Space

Our space is located in Edmonton, Alberta at 8230 105 Street NW in the Box Haus building, just one block North of Whyte Avenue.

We have six therapy rooms, each with comfortable seating and inviting, earthy décor. In addition, we have over 700 sq./ft of studio space that is home to group classes, workshops, community acupuncture, yoga classes, psychotherapy groups, and urban-retreats.

Free parking is available along 105th street and 83rd avenue. In addition, there are Impark lots on either side of the building. If you wish to take transit, buses stop on Whyte Avenue just steps from our building. Our space is also conveniently located on the bike lane if you prefer an eco-friendly method of transportation.

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I would like to acknowledge that we are on
ᓂᑯᑕᐧᓯᐠ ᑲ ᐊᑭᐦᑌᐠ ᐃᔨᓂᐤ ᐃᐦᑖᐃᐧᐣ(Treaty Six Territory),
the traditional lands of First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and other diverse Indigenous peoples. I believe that it is important to appreciate the space we have been given on this land to practice therapy and healing. As an individual I am dedicated to reconciliation and dissolving systems of oppression and racism that continue to exist in our community.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Registered Psychologist

Holds a master’s or doctorate in psychology in Alberta (6+ years post-secondary).

Completed at least 1,600 hours of supervised practice after master’s degree.

Passed licensing exams and fulfilled all requirements to be fully registered under the College of Alberta Psychologists.

What is a Registered Provisional Psychologist

Holds a master’s or doctorate in psychology in Alberta (6+ years post-secondary).

Currently working through the post-degree supervised practice and licensing requirements to become fully registered by the College of Alberta Psychologists.

What is a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC)

A certification by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA), a national voluntary credential.

Requires a graduate degree in a counselling or related field, supervised practicum150 hours of direct client counselling for recent graduates OR at least 800 hours of direct client counselling within the last 5 years for experienced practitioners.

Maintain certification via annual professional liability insurance, display of certification and 36 continuing education credits every 3 years.

What is a Mental Health Therapist (MHT)

The term Mental Health Therapist is not a regulated designation in Alberta. At the Collective Healing Centre, MHTs have completed their practicum hours within a master’s program and are finishing their degree requirements.

At the Collective, MHTs must:

  • Be members of a professional association.

  • Carry liability insurance.

  • Have external supervision or consultation from a regulated professional.

  • Follow the College of Alberta Psychologists Standards of Practice and the Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists.

  • Have the opportunity for consultation at the Collective.

  • Be actively working toward eventual registration in Alberta.

What is a Student Intern

  • Currently completing master’s-level practicum placement hours. 

  • Has completed a bachelor’s degree.

  • Works under the direct supervision of a Registered Psychologist.

  • Must follow the College of Alberta Psychologists Standards of Practice and the Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists.