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Mr. Jim Bateman is a Registered Psychologist in the province of Alberta. He has been registered since 1996. As a Registered Psychologist, Mr. Bateman adheres to the ethical and legal guidelines that govern the profession of psychology. Mr. Bateman has extensive experience providing assessments, diagnoses and psychotherapy for individuals, couples and families. Depression, anxiety, anger management, learning issues, relationship issues, young child and adolescent concerns, and family systems are Mr. Bateman’s predominate areas of expertise.
Mr. Bateman has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Alberta, and a Master of Arts in Counselling from Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.

Primary Areas of Work:

• Play therapy
• Adolescent therapy and risk assessment
• Relationship and marital therapy
• Family therapy/blended family integration
• Assessment services
• Family restructuring therapy/high conflict
• Divorce Interventions

Professional Affiliations:

• College of Alberta Psychologists
• Registered Family Practitioner
• Canadian Psychological Association
• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts

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Dr. Stephen Carter has worked as a Registered Psychologist since 1992. Dr. Carter specializes in working with adolescents and children in the areas of counselling and assessment as well as parenting/psychological and custody assessments with adults. His work history includes employment as a teacher and a school counsellor prior to entering private practice. Along with working in private practice, Dr. Carter is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta. He was previously an Executive Director of the Psychologists’ Association of Alberta for several years.
Dr. Carter has worked with children, adults and adolescents for many years and assists individuals and their families in dealing with serious problems including abuse, anxiety and depression, behavioural disorders, self-injurious behaviour, relationship problems and work stress. Dr. Carter has delivered many workshops, presentations and media interviews on topics such as assessment, grief and loss, effective workplaces, conflict resolution, behavioural disorders, high conflict divorce, school violence, stress management, ethics, running a private practice and expert witness testimony.

Primary Areas of Work:

• Adolescent, child and adult / individual and family counselling
• Academic / behavioural / intellectual / personality assessment
• Consultation and professional training
• Personal development / professional development workshops
• Parenting / custody assessment
• Family Restructuring Therapy / High Conflict Divorce Interventions

Professional Affiliations:

• College of Alberta Psychologists
• Psychologists’ Association of Alberta
• Canadian Psychological Association
• Canadian Association of School Psychologists
• American Psychological Association
• Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards
• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts

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Dr. David St. Arnault is a Registered Psychologist in the province of Alberta. He has a Ph.D. in Counselling Psychology from the University of Western Ontario. Dr. St. Arnault has experience providing psychological counselling with school aged children, adolescents, adults, older adults, groups, couples and families. He works from a collaborative and integrative approach that is informed by the needs and preferences of clients combined with the various therapeutic approaches that he has training and experience providing (listed below). Dr. St. Arnault also has experience in conducting psychoeducational assessments with children, adolescents and adults; adult capacity assessments; employment selection screening; and formal adult psychological assessments. Finally, Dr. St. Arnault has experience facilitating group therapy with children and adults. In addition to Dr. St. Arnault’s clinical work at Glenora Registered Psychologists, he is also an associate Faculty member of St. Stephen’s College and a sessional instructor at the University of Alberta.

Primary Areas of Work:

• Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Play Therapy
• Mindfulness and Mindful Experiential Therapy
• Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

Professional Affiliations:

• College of Alberta Psychologists
• Psychologists’ Association of Alberta
• Canadian Psychological Association
• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts

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Ms. Smith has been a Registered Psychologist since 2002.  Ms. Smith has a long history in providing psychotherapeutic interventions for families, couples, individuals, youth and children experiencing interpersonal difficulties.  Ms. Smith’s direct communication style is effective with clients who have been stuck in their interpersonal conflicts.  Ms. Smith has extensive experience in providing services to high conflict couples and families in that areas of separation and divorce matters.  In addition to her clinical background, Ms. Smith taught Family Therapy for City University for several years.  Ms. Smith is a Parenting Expert in The Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta with experience in Interventions including:   Practice Note 7 Evaluative Interventions (voice of the child and triage),  PN7 Therapeutic Interventions (family therapy, co-parenting counselling, counselling with children and reunification therapy).  Ms. Smith’s work with couples and individuals includes a focus on depth psychology and attachment theories with training in solution focused, emotion focused and Gottman techniques.    Ms. Smith is well versed in using cognitive behavior and dialectical behavioral therapy.  Ms. Smith has been an active community member historically volunteering as a board member for the Psychologist Association of Alberta, the Association of Family Conciliation Courts and as a community member for the Northern Alberta Appeals Committee for Legal Aid.

Primary Areas of Work:

• Family & Couple Counselling
• Post-divorce and separation   Counselling
• Mood Disorders
• Life transitions
• Trauma related issues
• Personality Disorders
• Children and Adolescents

Professional Affiliations:

• College of Alberta Psychologists
• Association of Family Conciliation
• Courts
• Approved Service Provider – First Nation Inuit Mental Health Branch

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Dr. Shirley Vandersteen is a Registered Psychologist and Certified Mediator. Dr. Vandersteen specializes in individual and couple counselling/mediation and in work-group intervention and consulting. She has written extensively on a wide range of psychology and work place topics for media, conference, and workshop presentations.

Dr. Vandersteen is a partner in the Glenora Registered Psychologists and maintains an active full-time private practice. She brings a gentle, common sense, and goal directed approach to her work as a therapist, mediator, and organizational consultant. She strives to empower her clients to achieve psychological health and personal well-being, and to experience the visible results of their therapeutic efforts.

Prior to entering private practice, Dr. Vandersteen served as a training and work group consultant in Human Resources with the Alberta government. Her duties included providing workplace assessment, employee/management dialogue training, and intervention. She offered these services in a variety of formats including change management and wellness seminars and organizational development interventions including the assessment and resolution of workplace conflict.

Dr. Vandersteen enjoys being actively involved with her young adult children, working out regularly for fun, health, and fitness, oil painting, and spending time with close friends and family.

Primary Areas of Work:

• Individual, couple, and family counselling
• Therapy for clients experiencing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety, depression, mid-life, or relationship issues
• Post separation/divorce counselling/intervention/mediation
• Organizational Dynamics: work group analysis and problem solving, i.e. employee/management dialogue, intervention, mediation, management consulting, personal leadership: counselling, support, and training, and spirituality in the workplace
• Change management counselling (conflict resolution, personal adjustment)

Professional Affiliations:

• College of Alberta Psychologists
• Psychologists’ Association of Alberta
• Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards

Dr. Vandersteen has served as the Public Education Chair, President-Elect, President, and Past President of the Psychologists’ Association of Alberta.

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Dr. Erin Buhr is a Registered Psychologist in the province of Alberta. Prior to becoming a psychologist, she worked in community group homes with youth. She later obtained her master’s degree in Counselling Psychology from Trinity Western University in BC and then completed a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, where her research focused on motivation. Throughout Dr. Buhr’s work and training, she was exposed to many types of clients and modalities, and as a result, works in a few different areas of counselling and assessment. In counselling, Dr. Buhr primarily uses a “firm but fair” style that incorporates cognitive, emotion-focused, mindfulness, and person-centred theories to help people confront their problems to make important changes in their life.

One area Dr. Buhr works in is providing counselling to adults, particularly those experiencing trauma. Currently Dr. Buhr works with first responders such as paramedics, corrections officers, and police officers, and others who have experienced a single-incident trauma. In this work, she combines Judith Herman’s three stage model with prolonged exposure therapy. Dr. Buhr also works with adults in other capacities, such as general stress management, self-esteem, and resolving anger.

Dr. Buhr works in high conflict divorce, specifically with PN7s. She works with separated couples, teens, and children who are experiencing problems related to conflict over co-parenting. With adults she utilizes Family Restructuring Therapy and with children and teens, Dr. Buhr utilizes play therapy, cognitive therapy, and emotion-focused therapy. Dr. Buhr also conducts Voice of the Child interventions and reunification therapy.

Dr. Buhr has training in play therapy, and works with children with anxiety, depression, and those who are experiencing family discord using an integrative therapy model.

In assessment, Dr. Buhr provides psycho-educational assessments for children to test for learning disorders, attention-related problems, and other behavioural issues. She can provide similar testing for adults, and also engages in psychological testing to determine the presence of various disorders.

Primary Areas of Work:

· Individual counselling with adults, particularly those who have experienced trauma

· High conflict divorce

· Individual counselling with children/teens for anxiety, self-esteem, reactions to family conflict, and externalizing problems.

· Voice of the Child

· Psycho-educational assessments with children and adults for learning disorders, attention-related problems, and behavioural disorders; psychological assessments to determine the presence of a psychological disorder.

· Dr. Buhr is on the provider’s list for the Worker’s Compensation Board, First Nations and Inuit Health, and Veteran’s Affairs.

Professional Affiliations:

· College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP)

· Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC)

· Psychologists’ Association of Alberta (PAA)

· Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)

Dr. Buhr is the Chair of the Public Education Committee with the Psychologists’ Association of Alberta and provides supervision for University of Alberta counselling psychology students.

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Ms. Kristina Ingram is a Registered Clinical Social Worker in the province of Alberta. Ms. Ingram has a Master of Social Work degree, specialization in Clinical Social Work Practice from the University of Calgary. Prior to moving into clinical practice, Ms. Ingram has several years of experience working with children and families through traumatic and crisis-related issues including substance abuse, child protection, intimate partner violence, mental health concerns, relationship and parenting issues, and social/systemic problems. 

Ms. Ingram’s primary area of focus is divorce and separation, working with the entire family, children/youth and individuals going through this challenging family change. Ms. Ingram works as part of the Interdisciplinary team in the Collaborative Family Law Process as a Family Specialist or Divorce Coach or with parents in high-conflict through Court-Ordered interventions under the Practice Note 7 Guidelines. She has had many files in which she has been the first stop prior to engaging other professionals to help parents navigate through the separation from first telling the children about the separation to creating a healthy co-parenting relationship, including the assistance of negotiating a parenting plan that is comprehensive, developmentally-appropriate, and in the best interests of the children. Ms. Ingram hopes for early intervention with families going through this difficult time prior to conflict escalating and further stresses the importance of addressing the emotional divorce; however if conflict is set in, then a direct, future, and solution-focused approach with families in conflict is key. 

Ms. Ingram enters each therapeutic relationship, whether with individuals, couples, or families, in a compassionate, yet directive manner, and ready to work in the therapeutic process. In collaboration with the client(s), Ms. Ingram will  determine the best way to support them in their therapeutic journey, primarily utilizing Cognitive-Behavioural, Emotionally-Focused, Mindfulness-Based, or Solution-Focused approaches. Ms. Ingram strives to assist her clients in building awareness and self-reflection, while instilling hope and change for clients. Ms. Ingram subscribes to the viewpoint that the individual is interconnected with others and their environment, and these connections can contribute to the overall concern and betterment of the problem. 

Primary Areas of Work:

• Voluntary Post-Separation Co-Parenting Counselling
• Divorce Coach and Family Specialist in the Collaborative Family Law process 
• Practice Note 7 Court-Ordered Evaluative and Therapeutic Interventions
• Couples and Family Counselling utilizing Emotionally-Focused Therapy
• Individual and Youth (12 years old and up) Counselling for various concerns including Depression, Anxiety, Grief/Loss, Stress, Life Changes.

Professional Affiliations:

• Alberta College of Social Workers
• Association of Collaborative Family Professionals (Edmonton) 
• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
• International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally-Focused Therapy 
• Approved Provider under the Indian Residential School Program and Non-Insured Health Benefits Program for First Nations and Inuit individuals of Canada

Ms. Ingram is an active member on the Board and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Committee for the Association of Collaborative Family Professionals (Edmonton), as well as a member of the Risk Management Committee and the Conference Committee for the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (Alberta Chapter). 

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Nathan is a Registered Psychologist in the province of Alberta. He has an M.A. in Counselling Psychology from Trinity Western University. Nathan has experience providing psychological counselling with school-aged children, adolescents, adults, older adults, and groups. Nathan has experience working with trauma & PTSD, ADHD, anxiety, depression, parenting men’s issues, racial identity, sports performance, and life transitions.

Nathan primarily works in a style that is empathetic and practical that integrates solution-focused, cognitive-behavioural, mindful, existential, and person-centred modalities to support the co-creation of strategies to make important life changes. Nathan is passionate about finding the right approach and building tools to support client needs.

Primary Areas of Work:

• Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Person-Centred Therapy
• Existential Therapy
• Play Therapy
• Mindfulness

Professional Affiliations:

• College of Alberta Psychologists
• Psychologists’ Association of Alberta

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Marcus Reed has worked as a Registered Psychologist since 2012. Marcus specializes in working with children and adolescents in the areas of counselling and assessment, as well as with parents. Marcus has worked within the school system as a teacher, counsellor, consultant, and school division leader. Marcus taught at the University of Alberta as a sessional instructor and has presented at a variety of professional learning events.  

Marcus’ approaches therapy with a compassionate, action-oriented mindset, blending a range of methods including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and other human-centred approaches. Marcus’ areas of expertise include counselling support for children and youth experiencing anxiety, depression, difficulties with anger, family conflict, grief and loss, and peer conflict. Marcus works with parents who seek support in areas including their child’s behavioural challenges, learning challenges, and family conflict. Marcus provides psychoeducational assessment for children and youth experiencing learning and/or behavioural challenges.

Primary Areas of Work:

• Adolescent, child and adult / individual and family counselling
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Managing Stress 
  • Family Conflict
  • Grief and Loss
  • Anger
  • Peer Conflict
  • Challenging Behaviour
  • School-related challenges
  • Challenging Emotions 
• Academic / behavioural / intellectual assessment
• Personal development / professional development workshops

Professional Affiliations:

• College of Alberta Psychologists
• Canadian Psychological Association
• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts